What kind of world are we living in?
Written by duckrabbit
Those that passed by should be rounded up stuck in a boat and told to row for Africa.
Bastards.
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (1 Comment)
I read this with sadness. Just last year, an Eritrean friend of mine lost his entire family – wife and three kids in a similar incident. They were coming to join him after four years of being apart. The Eritrean government would not allow them to leave the country legally so they had to find other ways. They weren’t even going to a European country.
Human beings are by nature survivors. They do what they must to keep their kin alive… that includes giving up their lives. They don’t come to Europe because it’s fashionable, they do so because it promises to sustain their dependents. What many in Europe forget is that as much as Europe is what it is because of good governance, Africa is what it is mainly because of exploitation from the West, North. And I’m not just talking about colonialism. Yet, today a ship docks on the shores of any African country… the reception alone is worth writing home about (unless you went by Somalia).
It is inhuman to watch someone dying and not try to save them whatever the reason. It is very inhuman.