National Day in Memory of Migration Victims
The survivors of the 2013 Lampedusa shipwreck testify that integration is possible. Not in Italy. Not yet.
On the tenth anniversary of the October 2013 shipwreck in which 368 people lost their lives (on day 3) and, subsequently, (on day 11) another 286, people continue to drown in the Mediterranean…how far we are from Pope Francis’ Message for the recent World Migrant and Refugee Day.
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When it comes to the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean, the most authoritative source is the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental organisation linked to the United Nations. In 2013, after the shipwrecks off Lampedusa, the IOM started the Missing Migrants project to document all cases of dead or missing migrants around the world. Among the areas to be monitored is the Mediterranean Sea.
Photo: https://www.dimensionidiverse.it/una-tragedia-consumata/
«After the two shipwrecks in Lampedusa on 3 and 11 October 2013 (in which 60 children were among the victims), another 27,000 people, still forced into the hands of traffickers in the absence of legal immigration channels, lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea without rescue. “Since that day we have heard hundreds of times from all the European governments that it would never happen again, but in reality it has been ten years of indifference,” says the 3 October Committee, which will bring many of the survivors to Lampedusa, to remember their fellow travellers who did not make it but also to explain to hundreds of students arriving from all over Europe that a new life for them is possible, at least in countries like Sweden where – despite the government’s turn to the right in recent years – integration is a reality. It is there that most of the survivors of the Lampedusa shipwrecks live» (Source: www.repubblica.it).
IT IS TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
LET'S COUNTER THE FIERCE FACE OF THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT
THAT TRAMPLES HUMAN RIGHTS UNDERFOOT WITH CYNICAL DECREES
The memory of migrants who died along all migration routes
of thirst hunger hostility and indifference
URGE US TO RADICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
THERE IS A GREAT JOURNEY TO BE MADE IN ITALY
In Milan, at the Darsena, an installation to commemorate the massacre of migrants in Lampedusa: an overturned boat surrounded by 368 chrysanthemums and emerging arms.
Photo: www: milano.repubblica.it/
“With this work,” says ArtDirector Beppe “Treccia” Iavicoli, “we share the emotions of the human and social tragedy that we are sadly still living through, so that no one can turn away. The work gives the Municipality 6 and the city of Milan the memory, so that future generations will share humanity and responsibility towards human beings rich only in hope”.
WE AT BP ARE NOT DISCOURAGED
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHERN EUROPE REGION
WE HAVE IN OUR HEARTS THOSE WHO EMIGRATE
“Rome would do well, instead of losing itself behind improbable naval battles in the Mediterranean, to look at the example of little Portugal: no limits to immigration, welfare, training, work, integration, in other words wealth in terms of economic and demographic balance. As do most of the countries of the Centre North that invest in turning asylum seekers into European citizens” (Soure: www.repubblica.it).
