This is the Guardian.

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In November 2021, a 20-year-old student from Iraq, who we're calling Umjad, found himself in trouble.

Deadly violence had broken out in his neighbourhood, and he was forced to flee.

I didn't feel safe because I like freedom of speech.

It's not safe for him to share his whole story publicly, but Umjad circumstances were dangerous, and he was running out of options.

It is dramatic when you leave that land. I think it has the same feeling that you lose your mother.

He didn't want to leave, but with the help of his nephew, he was put in touch with people's mugglers, who for around $6,000 said that they would take him to safety.

I expected that it would be easy to get a safe place, but that was really difficult.

I'm going to plan it to go to UK specifically, but this is what the smugglers want to take you to.

There were days of walking without food or water.

Umjad is young, he's slight, and he's not as he says a tough guy.

Eventually, he arrived in Dunkirk. It was chaotic, and he was scared.

Under the cover of darkness, he and 22 boys and men were told to clamber aboard an inflatable dinghy and push off into the channel.

One of the busiest stretches of water in the world.

It just told us not that it's going to take one hour to two hours, but after six hours, we still in the middle of the sea and run out of fuel.

The feeling is indescribable. You don't know what to do. A lot of water came to your boat.

We have to throw the water out of the boat.

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