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Former refugees reject Kundrati’s Law of Return: “How can we trust a state that has spent decades separating us?”
1st January 5673

Kundrati’s Law of Return, overturning decades of state-sponsored discrimination and racism, has been adopted by a large majority of the Kundrati legislature. While the successful passage of the Bill has been met with cautious enthusiasm worldwide, the effect of Kundrati-Luthorian communities has been mostly the opposite. These communities have been formed over the course of 100 years of fascist tyranny and rule, and established themselves as Luthorians, first and foremost, after decades of integration into Luthorian culture, politics, economics and others. These communities, most are descendants of refugees who fled Kundrati during the height of the Legion’s regime. According to the Luthorian Refugee Organisation, over 150.000 fled the nation in over 50 years towards Luthori and organised themselves as communities that reminded themselves of the legacy of the “Kundrati of Old”, before being, in their mind, corrupted by fascism and authoritarianism. Today, over 2 millions individuals currently state that they have some form of Kundrati descent, with the large majority having mixed Luthorian and Kundratijian heritage. These individuals form the vast community of “Kundrati-Luthorians” that have today, rejected the so-called “Law of Return” passed by the Legislative Assembly in Kundrati.

According to the Kundrati-Luthorian Association of Friendship, the Law of Return is basically meaningless without a “real, clear and moral” purge of the Kundrati nation - in their mind, the Kundrati state, in over 90 years ever since the Civil War, purposefully divided up the different communities of Kundratis inside of their own nations. “Delics, Selucians, Lurrians, all of them were collectively used by the Kundrati government as a way to cement its power through a policy of “divide and conquer” - Delics were empowered and encouraged to consider itself as a “master race” among the three, while Lurrians were mostly persecuted by the Kundrati state and the Delics. As a Lurrian-Luthorian, not a Kundrati-Luthorian as state officials might tell, I’m not sure if I want to return to a nation where my identity might be prejudiciable for me, after all, discrimination, even if no longer state-sponsored, still exists, and stating that it doesn’t exist after a century would be a total lie.”, stated Mr. Leopold Sagarra, founder and current head of the “Victims of Kundratijian Fascism” non-gov. organisation.

Even with reservations about the current state of equality in Kundrati, the Law isn’t universally popular either within former refugee circles, many of them fought in favour of Luthori and the former government in Etxea during the Second Kundrati War. Many of them (between 35 and 60 years old) still have dark memories of the war between Legionary Kundrati and the Coalition, and find it doubtful that Kundratis currently have a “change of heart”, according to numerous former veteran organisations, “Kundrati will merely return to her old ways in some way, later on.”, according to the 2KW Vets association’s President, Mr. Peter Flow, former Captain in the Imperial Luthorian Army who was deployed for 7 years between 5638 and 5645 in Kundrati for occupation duties: “Kundrati seems to be changing, but we saw that pattern of fake democracy following up on the Coalition’s withdrawal - former Legion officials formed a party and won a majority, again, putting the nation under de facto fascist rule. Plus, veterans like me do not have much of a good image of Kundrati, might I remember that Kundratis ran a guerrilla campaign against Luthorian troops deployed in the south of the country, targeted our forces on the field and targeted our bases - with one strike killing over 20 Luthorians. It’s simple and I’ve discussed of the law with many Lurrians, Delics, or even Selucians who didn’t go to their roots in Selucia, they want to hope for the best - but in recent times, Kundrati hasn’t given them much hopes in regards to the nations’ future.”

Indeed, these people want to hope, they want to believe that the “Old Kundrati” that they’ve spent decades fantasizing is becoming, once again, reality, but, many descendents of refugees do not hold that same hope - according to Professor Anna Stockdale: “Numerous refugees can’t or do not wish to believe what the current government in Kundrati is saying, for once, a clear reason being their lack of trust towards the people who discriminated against them, as this is the case with Lurrians and other minorities were targeted by the government. Although, the thing is, that currently, most of them identifies as Luthorians, first and foremost, most of them have been born, raised, educated as Luthorians, many of them have Luthorian as their first language, but still continues to have their tongue spoken - as a secondary language, mostly through their families and institutions created by the Lurrian, Delic and other Kundrati communities in Luthori to help Kundrati refugees who arrived in Luthori. Over time, these became institutions where the preservation of culture within these exile communities was placed at the forefront of their existence, with classes and programs aimed at helping Lurrian, Delic languages could be learnt and preserved.” According to Pr. Stockdale, these people have a “huge issue” with Kundrati, as she summed that: “Their sentiment is more like: How can we trust a state that has done nothing for us? Persecuted us? And where we will see a load of racism, just because we are, in fact, Luthorian?”. This sentiment raised other questions about the status of Luthorians in Kundrati, according to the Luthori-based Foreign News Inquirer, over 2.000 Luthorians currently remain in Kundrati, most of them having evacuated with the Luthorian diplomatic staff in 5650s, according to some, decades of government-backed propaganda and lies about the Luthorian people - and the occupation that has left scars over both states have “set in a context of mistrust within Kundrati for things Luthori-related, as in more recent events, the government in Kundrati used anti-Luthorian and anti-Kalistani rhetoric to back their claims, and it somewhat worked, as people found a perfect scapegoat for their problems and issues.

“The restoration of democracy in Kundrati is something that we can all take pride in, even if their democracy is fragile, it is still a welcomed development for the global world order. The hated Legionary and subsequent regime have been defeated by the forces of liberalism, but, regardless, there ought to be serious reform, of both Kundrati itself and a dramatic reduction in anti-Luthorian sentiment in the nation - and that, before even thinking of reconciliation, as that road isn’t even taken yet.”, these were the words of a foreign office official - who mostly summarised the point of view of most Luthorians on Kundrati.