Neoimperialists blame everybody but themselves for migrants fleeing & drowning
Neoimperialists blame everybody but themselves for migrants fleeing & drowning
What’s happening, the Afghan migrant asks himself, what is the Greek patrol boat doing? In the middle of his question, some of the 180 other migrants standing on the deck of the Adrianna move to look, the Adrianna flips, and he is thrown into the sea. He paddles to stay afloat, dragged by his clo
Some say the Greek ship tried to tug the boat with the migrants and caused it to sink. The Greek Navy denies this.
The officials and the media blame it all on “traffickers,” those who smuggle in migrants on overloaded ships, charging prices bloated by the impossibility for migrants from Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, countries where the Adrianna’s passengers came from, to travel by normal, legal channels.
Whoever is to blame for the capsizing of the boat, the Greek Navy reported it had pulled 104 migrants from the water alive and 78 bodies of people who had drowned, with unknown hundreds of people below the decks, including children.
Behind the immediate crime are EU bureaucrats and the EU member politicians, who first created the crisis that forced people to leave their home countries and then built a wall to keep them out of Europe.
Behind the politicians and bureaucrats is the capitalist–imperialist system, whose profit drive pushes hundreds of millions of human beings from poverty level down to starvation level and whose wars turn livable societies into a living hell, as in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since 2014, it is estimated that 21,000 migrants have died trying to travel from [Afrasia] to Europe.