Mediterranean human tragedy: As another 700 lives' journey end in sea
April 19 2015 By Abi Giwa
Ban Ki moon
"These are men and women like us who seek a better life. Hungry, persecuted, injured, exploited, victims of wars. They were looking for happiness."
These are words of reaction from Pope Francis, following the news of another human tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea, where a boat carrying about 700 people from Libya capsized on Sunday.
The Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, has called it a 'European tragedy.' Although, it is uncertain how many people were in the capsized boat, but it is believed that if the figure being mentioned is correct, it will be the worst tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea. The highest figure so far before the current news was the Lampedusa tragedy with about 650 loss.
24 bodies are reported to have been recovered by rescuers and 28 lives saved. The same words of worry and concern expressed by European Union officials following the Lampedusa tragedy are being repeated all over again this time around. It isn't that no human loss have been recorded after Lampedusa, but that all the talks of concern following Lampedusa have turned out to be lips' service.
Virtually, all the time there are news of boats capsizing in the Mediterranean Sea with loss of lives, though not as much as Lampedusa or the latest figure of about 700, which observers say will be the worst in history if it is true.
There is no word that captures the fate of those in the boat or any boat leaving Africa to Europe than the words of Pope Francis. They are me and women like anyone, hungry, persecuted, injured, exploited, victims of war and seeking to live, they live their homestead already devastated by crisis in search of a place to live.
Whether what they obtain at the end of their journey is a better life or something like it, they just want to live. But many of them in search of life that have deprived of the at home end up in the sea.
These are words of reaction from Pope Francis, following the news of another human tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea, where a boat carrying about 700 people from Libya capsized on Sunday.
The Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, has called it a 'European tragedy.' Although, it is uncertain how many people were in the capsized boat, but it is believed that if the figure being mentioned is correct, it will be the worst tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea. The highest figure so far before the current news was the Lampedusa tragedy with about 650 loss.
24 bodies are reported to have been recovered by rescuers and 28 lives saved. The same words of worry and concern expressed by European Union officials following the Lampedusa tragedy are being repeated all over again this time around. It isn't that no human loss have been recorded after Lampedusa, but that all the talks of concern following Lampedusa have turned out to be lips' service.
Virtually, all the time there are news of boats capsizing in the Mediterranean Sea with loss of lives, though not as much as Lampedusa or the latest figure of about 700, which observers say will be the worst in history if it is true.
There is no word that captures the fate of those in the boat or any boat leaving Africa to Europe than the words of Pope Francis. They are me and women like anyone, hungry, persecuted, injured, exploited, victims of war and seeking to live, they live their homestead already devastated by crisis in search of a place to live.
Whether what they obtain at the end of their journey is a better life or something like it, they just want to live. But many of them in search of life that have deprived of the at home end up in the sea.
