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.
