Hard Road to Freedom
Living a peaceful life can cost
everything you have achieved in life; sometimes it means that you have to leave
behind your home and the life you knew just to continue breathing. When war
knocks on your door threatening you and the ones you love, you have two choices:
you answer the call and probably die or you try to protect your family by
escaping war. Without means of transportations available and the border closed,
families with little babies risk themselves to cross the sea in overcrowded
dinghies, paying money in order to enter illegally in a country, and if they
are lucky they can be labeled as refugees. Neither choice is safe for the ones
who take the road out of the country.
You would think that after watching in
the news images of exhausted men and women carrying children with ashy faces under
pouring rain, hungry and tired with no possession but a rucksack, locals would receive
them with open arms but the ugly truth is that some countries are more worried
about the economic or social impact than the life of these people. Although
when most of us are compassionate towards people who are suffering greatly,
there are others who show the worst face of human race.
A Hungarian camerawoman, documenting
refugees being held in a camp, gets caught in the middle of a sprint of scared
refugees when she observes a man carrying a little child in his arms and she makes
him trip and he falls on top of his son spreading his belongings and
crying in disbelief. Not satisfied with that despicable action the woman turns
around targeting a little girl running towards her directions and kicks her.
The video footage makes one`s blood boil. It is despicable how in presence of
the horror of war “that woman” is capable of such atrocities. These actions are
evidence of the perversion of human being, how mean and heartless someone can behave
towards the suffering of others. On the bright side, if there is one, because
of the video going viral the man was offered refuge in Spain.
Personally I have never experienced
war, but I can only imagine what refugees feel undergoing these experiences,
under the pressure and stress of being put out of their country, without
knowing the language, without a job or a house, only with the purpose of
continuing living and hoping to return their home once more. Refugees are not
willingly leaving home; they are forced to do it. And the feeling of not being
welcomed is making their way harder to freedom. Being locked in camps without
the basic facilities that are needed is heartbreaking. I only pray God for them
to find peace.
Clau, your post is excellent! You gave a different perspective on the subject. I really cannot conceive the fact that that camerawoman did what she did. That was absolutely outrageous! Why can't she understand the situation those people are facing? Are you kidding me? She's the worst! I feel enraged at this.
ResponderEliminarI also think as you do, we have to pray that this situation can end peacefully and as soon as possible so that not only the Syrians but the world can find peace.
Clau, I love your post! I really like the way you introduce the topic. As you think, I consider that "decisions" are crucial in our life. Sometimes we take a decision and we have good results, some other times decisionas are more difficult, with obstacles to cross in the middle, and some other times we realized, too late, that the dicision we took was not the correct one.
ResponderEliminarI have never watched the videos you uploaded and I think it is cruel, as you said, it makes my blood boil. How on earth can a woman do something like that? In general, women are supposed to have a maternal sense and to feel pity for the situation refugees are facing but I cannot understand her reaction.
Despite the situation they live, they keep on searching a new life, but, aren´t they tired of people´s mistreatment? I deem, they are probably driven by their desire of having a better life in another country where they can enjoy their rights. Thank you Clau for sharing this video and making us think of that woman who deserves nothing but being fired of her job.
Claudia, the video about the camerawoman kicking the kid and the man was inhumane. Whenever I see the video, I think about the decline of humanity as regards issues that should unite everyone. In this case, the woman does not show respect for immigrants nor pitty for them. She was on that place in order to cover a current problematic. That´s why you imagine that reporters or a camera person is going to support immigrants, not kick at them. despite the fact that there are several persons who, on this situations, help people in need, there are others who are merciless.
ResponderEliminarIt is a really impressive video, Clau! Honestly, it is another xenophobic sign which shows how some European people are still reluctant to accept immigrants coming to their countries in order to find a better lifestyle for their children.
ResponderEliminarAs you know, I have not had the chance to have children yet but, as everybody says, they are the most important thing you can have in the world and it would be terribly distressing to have to carry your kids on your shoulders as the only way you have to escape from war. Apart from that, it should be hard enough for every human being to leave the culture in which you have been raised behind because it is not a guarantee of welfare for your children. But I think it will be more difficult yet if you do not receive the support of the inhabitants of the land you consider the closest paradise.