The crisis of refugees

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) declaration that 1,530 refugees died while crossing the sea to Europe is a statement from the entire world that justice and humanity exist in that old continent, not anywhere else. UNHCR also reports that 60,521 refugees have already reached Europe by sea this year and that over 80 percent of them arrived to Italy while others arrived to Greece and Cyprus; which confirms that this is their only haven.

However, the total number of fatalities amongst refugees this year reached 1,530 people who died on the same route. This number is almost the same as that recorded during the same period in 2016, which shows that the risks remain the same and that the crisis of the Kurdish child may happen again, while it will no longer be accepted that human conscious will not act until more sad and miserable scenes are seen.

Children and their parents in a worn out rubber boat setting sail without knowing the possible consequences. This has become the dream of so many of those miserable people in their home countries that is if they survive violent waves and shark attacks. We do not need videos to realize the sufferings of those innocent people, especially when major powers opted to competing away from their own soils to save the lives of their own subjects and use others’ funds to do it as if the affluent should always be blackmailed.