From January to early November, “over 1,315 people have died and are missing in the central Mediterranean in an attempt to reach Europe”, while another 28,600 migrants have been “intercepted at sea and brought back by the Libyan coast guard”. These are the data that emerged from the Save the Children report, according to which “we cannot turn the other way in the face of the inhumane policies of a Europe that ignores the suffering of men, women and children on its borders”.
Raffaela Milano, director of Save the Children’s Italy-Europe programs, speaks above all of “dead children overwhelmed by the water while trying to cross a river between Croatia and Slovenia or of hunger and cold in the forest on the border between Belarus and Poland” , on “boys and girls, rejected dozens of times, often in a brutal and illegal way, despite their minor age, victims and witnesses of atrocities along the Balkan route or detained and subjected to violence in Bulgaria. Men, women and children, who fled wars, conflicts, extreme poverty, in the mirage of a future of peace, who have crossed countries and continents to find only borders armored by walls and barbed wire, kept away by water cannons, stun grenades and tear gas “.
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