“When people approach you as a person from a refugee background, no matter if you are a writer or not, they approach you with an image that they have about you,” he says. “That image is victimisation.
“I was not a victim. I was a fighter. I was fighting. I wrote two books about that system. I wrote many articles about that system.”
“I am not working just as a witness,” Boochani says. “To make colonisers angry, that is my job. It is not about sending a message.” Messages, he insists, are “white, comfortable” things to want.
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