Ealom fled Myanmar in mid-2013, a time of heightened violence between the country's Buddhist majority and the Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority whose members are denied citizenship rights.
Ealom was only 21 when he arrived in Manus, and had braces on his teeth that went unadjusted for years. "I was never given a chance to see a dentist," he says. "My mouth was bleeding constantly." Because of his status - known as "negative without assessment" - Ealom had no hope of being accepted into the US under the Australia-US resenttlement deal.
"Jaivet is very good at figuring out how systems work and finding where the cracks are," Watt says. "He can see opportunities that other people can't."which he had watched as teenager in Myanmar. It tells the story of prisoners on death row in Illinois who use an underground tunnel to escape jail.He also learnt from the experience of Loghman Sawari, an asylum seeker who used fake documents to travel from Papua New Guinea to Fiji in February 2017.
Ealom's friends say he is good at examining systems and identifying weaknesses. He has had plenty of experience with that."I thought he must have gone into town, that he might come back soon," he says. He had never considered going to Canada, and didn't know anybody there. But he booked a flight to Toronto.
In Canada, he tried a different tactic. He told the immigration official his story and confessed to travelling on a fake passport."He was so shocked by my story and how far I had come. He went out and bought me Subway with his own money. It was completely the opposite experience I'd had with Australia. Finally, I saw light at the end of the tunnel."Ealom arrived in Toronto in December, when it can be as cold as minus 30 degrees.
KnottMatthew A wonderful story! Congratulations to Jaivet Ealom, and to the people who helped him reach freedom after those awful years in Australia's cruel and unjust offshore detention system.
KnottMatthew Amazing!! So thankful he escaped and made it safely to Canada! Looking forward to seeing the doc about his story!
KnottMatthew hell of a story! either the dingos being too carefull or the canucks is careless. either way this man here earned that elusive win against the machines
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