Posteed by Belarmino Dabalos Saguing
Rome, Italy 20 April 2015
This past week, an iestimated 800
migrants died in an incident when a ship carrying around 900 migrants and
refugees sunk with only 28 survivors were rescued, and at the moment of
writing, only 40 dead bodies were recovered,.
And at once, debates around
Europe erupted where everyone point finger to everyone.The arguments are; Mare
Nostrum must be carried out to blockade Europe from illegal immigration and
possibly terrorists, or to patrol the sea more to soccour the would be immigrnts
who fell victims to shipwrecks that inevitably happen.
But all this only serve to throw
sands into the eyes of the truth. The real solution lies not in European seas. It lies in the countries of origin of
the unfortunte migrants who are only scaping the miseries in their own
countries. Although there are remote possibility that terrorist may have
mingled with the refugees, (Libyan IS in this case), not one Libyan has been
found with the refugees, in the past, and even with this epecific instance.
There in fact exists a very lucrative human trafficking as a result of this
approach of total closure of Europe to migration.
One survivor from Banladesh in
press interview, declared that the passengers are from Bangladesh (obviously)
Somalia, Eritria, Syria, Iraq and Emen all refugees from those war-torned
countries.
According to the Italian
Parliament President Mrs Boldrini in a TV talk show this morning, let us not lie to our people. Instead of
squandering million and billions of Euros in a naval blockage, let us spend it
solving the roots of this unprecendented exodus of people by helping in a
peaceful solution of wars in Middle East and of hunger and poverty in other
countries.
Migration could only be stopped
by creation of decent jobs in countries of origins and of helping to find a
solution to the wars. Naval blockade of our seas will never solve the problem.
At the moment, Italy is alone in the
frontline of this massive invasion of migrants, while governments of other
European countries are closing their eyes and frontiers continue to commit the error of
closed borders for migrants. It will only worsen the situation.
Filipinos, though not involved in
the Sicilian Channel tragedies, are very
much involved in forced migration of workers. There is also the question of
life and death in Philippine migration. It is pure ignorance to say otherwise.
The diaspora of Filipino workers cannot be stopped by foolish announcements of
economic growth gained by the Filipino State. It never reched the people
because it is based in the principles of gaining profits for the weathy and
foreign multinational corporations and cartels. The rich only get richier and
the poors crushed deeper in poverty. Philippines needs radical upheaval to
change this situation. It cannot be ended with the so-called social aids to
the poor. Philippine needs jobs with decent salaries that can support a family.
And it could be achieved by creation of jobs through industrialization and
livelihood by a just agrarian reforms. Something that the Philippine
institution has neglected since the outset of our independence which never was
an independence since the country remained in the hands of a foreign power.
The question was thrown onto tha
lap of European Union by the Pope. Where is the Christian foundation of
Charity, Love for humanity… They men and women like anyone of us ignoring
religion and politics. They are human beings created by God.
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