REFUGEES: THE FACE OF THE HUMAN TRAGEDY

Excuse me, but I cannot be happy.

No doubt, the drama of Syrian refugees, Iraqis and Africans trying to enter Europe has acquired dramatic overtones of a real human tragedy. The terrible picture of poor AILAN KURDI died on the beaches of Turkey is not merely a symbol of this sad and devastating spectacle of deepest human misery, is an attack on humanity itself. Forgive my friends, but I cannot be happy in a world where thousands of refugees, fleeing in terror of war and hunger, looking for a place to survive. It is the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War and in the XXI Century, this situation cannot happen again, and I do not understand how we can live quietly our insignificant lives, showing all this tragedy that plagues so many people.

At this writing, I remember that today, September 5 is the day that Mother Teresa of Calcutta, crossed the threshold of immortality for her charitable work on behalf of the needy. She was not only an example of charity, but of humanity. I am referring to the values which she embodied and observed: values which we all, believers and non-believers, share.

In the cool sands of a beach in Turkey, lies a large part of humanity lost in indifference, in selfishness, in the simple and plain stupidity to believe that this does not affect us. Yes, Ladies and gentlemen, and it affects us a lot, because we are all a little small AILAN KURDI who, along with his family, mother and brother drowned in the sea of ​​human cruelty and coldness.

You cannot be happy, even remotely, when voices drowned out by fear and despair for help. You cannot be happy when countries that can shelter them, governments have in their hands the solution, or at least mitigate this drama, just turn away. Recently I wrote that Angela Merkel was the most worthy example of the true European leader, others, forgive me, are simple scarecrow of International Policy, that do not even deserve to be called rulers. Germany, France, Scandinavia and others countries have given us an example, but where are the others? Where are we and our governments that deal this issue as a sad new and nothing else.

The world has changed, and at least in technology, and for good. Thanks to the Internet, we can see, almost “in situ” the human drama of refugees in Europe, sadness stamped on the faces of thousands of men, women and children arriving by land and sea, trying to survive. This is not just a wave of illegal immigration, this is a flood of despair, to seek survival, to seek shelter, and if we are not able to help, we are not human.

Apart from the tragedy that accompanied every day, I see there are still people who do not want to see more pictures of the tragedy, because - they say - "this has nothing to do with me." Forgive me, but it has a lot to do with you and me and everyone else. It's about us as human beings, have to do with us, as part of planet Earth as part of a whole.

 A part of my faith in humanity has been either dead on a beach in Turkey.  For a moment, I am a refugee, I am a migrant, I am Ailan Kurdi, I am a human being.

 For all that, forgive me, but I cannot be happy.