Satnam Singh neo martyr of our inhumanity. He died a slave’s death in a tomato field: greedy owners, cruel corporals, ‘distracted’ institutions, indifferent citizenship, addiction to violence
YOUR BLOOD SCORCHES THE EARTH
Your severed arm
into a box of rotten fruit
like your body still alive
thrown on the doorstep.
Your blood scorches the earth
mixed with tomato pulp
as you scream and cry out in pain.
Now you are dead Satnam Singh
your wife saw you die
pressing her hands hard
on the flap of torn flesh.
You had come to live
the masters killed you
in Borgo Santa Maria in Latina
by throwing your arm
into a box of rotten fruit."
(Claudio Caldarelli)
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SATNAM SINGH, 31, originally from India, killed by machines and man, was an ‘invisible’. A twice-ghost worker: moonlighting and without a residence permit. Now that he is ending up in the tally of Italian deaths at work, will we soon forget that he was also an ‘economic migrant’ who died of racism and malice?
Just as we have removed others before him:
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SACKO SOUMALIA, 22,shot dead in 2018 in the hell of San Ferdinando, Calabria while looking for pieces of sheet metal in an abandoned factory to cover his shack.
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DOUADE DIANE, 37, A CONSTRUCTION WORKER AND CULTURAL MEDIATOR FROM THE IVORY COAST disappeared into thin air, in 2022, in Sicily, after posting on social media two videos denouncing the safety of the construction company where he worked.
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MAHMOUD ABDALLA, 19, ARRIVED FROM EGYPT AS AN UNACCOMPANIED MINOR found dead, his head and hands severed, last summer off the coast of Santa Margherita Ligure (Genoa) because he had reported irregularities at work.
OF MIGRATION ONE DIES, DURING AND AFTER THE JOURNEY