By: Ahmed M. ElNahas –
Firenze, May 27th 2015.
Terror, fear, torture, mutilation, rape, extortion, enslavement,
desperation or death.. The horrors of man’s worst invention: WAR. The reasons
for which hundreds of thousands men, women and children have been, and still
are, fleeing their homelands each in search for a dream: safety, wealth,
opportunity, job, marriage, freedom, liberty, education…etc.. Yet the majority
of them, along with their dreams, die!
They cross the deserts and they die.. They cross the seas and they die..
Meetings are held in New York, in Geneva and in Brussels yet still they
continue to die.. Politicians talk, tweet and chat while they die.. The EU
Commission recommend welcoming norms and they die.. Italian Parliament
legislate for their delinquency and they die.. Maltese and
Spanish Cost Guards shoots on their fortune boats and they die.. African
leaders dispense free promises and they die.. European farming firms enslave
them and they die.. They are dying by the thousands while a handful of “Businessmen and Women” on both sides of
the Mediterranean are making their life’s fortunes.
They are so desperate as to bet their lives on taking chances between:
·
dying in the desert, or
·
dying at sea, or
·
being locked up for months or years in jails falsely
named “Welcoming Centres”, or
·
getting extradited back to the starting point and
losing everything, or
·
somehow acquiring the luck to work like slaves in
European farms, or
·
getting really lucky to obtain an Exile Permit after
several years of humiliation and exclusions.
Anyhow, if not their lives are at stake; they will lose all what they have
risked for in the first place.. Their Dreams.
Since the early 20th century until now, the Mediterranean
have swallowed over 20000 of them; and only God knows how many have perished
while crossing the deserts on foot or on trucks.. Even inside the
Libyan “Recovery Centres” (jails financed by the European Community) duly
converted into ‘State Subsidised’ transit zones in their desperate ordeal waiting
to board the floating coffins.
Parliaments and Governments do not hesitate for a glimpse of an eye
while voting in favour of war; and their belligerent financial
and logistic contributions are ready to go at a moment’s notice.. But when it
comes to saving lives (others of course) they take all the time in the world, and the topics helming
their agendas’ priority list become “Domestic
Unease and Security Hazards”.
Recent experiences proved that most, if not all, of the international
timid and slim Humanitarian Aid efforts, other than being politically manipulated
and officially mismanaged, were targeting explicitly the
prevalent superiority of one part of a given conflict over the other(s)!! See the difficulties and bureaucratic obstacles
implanted before all the UN Organisations and NGOs
operating in the fields of Refugees, Aid and Relief in every part of our planet.
As today’s world is swerving towards ‘Right’, and National Parties from every colour are
winning grounds all over the globe; dividing and discriminating entire
populations has become the moment’s socio-politico-cultural vogue carried over various
racial, ethnic, sectarian and religious perceptions, and all are
commonly blinded by the “US
vs. THEM” spotlights; unable to see
the fading light of a candlelight
called “TOGETHER”.
Therefor, an inevitable “Regression Backward” is
likely the most logic opposed reaction to cripple our existence. I think that many
tangible present facts do support this conclusion of mine.
Pass On The Word.
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