Immigrants, the endless children’s massacre

Giada Aquilaino – Vatican City

A silent massacre, in fact, a daily massacre. It is migrant children who lose their lives or disappear on their desperate journey in the middle of the Mediterranean. In the past ten years, the trip to Europe, especially for Italy, has unfortunately a fatal for about 3,500 girls, boys and teenagers. On average, the child is estimated every day UNICEF, recalling that in a total of more than 20,800 life has been lost on this road, among the most dangerous world.

April 18, 2015 tragedy

The United Nations Children’s Fund talks about a decade that was painful, which started painfully on April 18, 2015, with the tragedy in the Strait of Sicily – unfortunately many others – when it caused the shipwreck off the coast of Libya from a crowded wooden boat, which left from Tripoli, caused the death of 1,022 people. They only survived 28.

Girls and boys, as Nicolas Delaric, remembers UNICEF coordinator in Italy, in a letter in Geneva, nearly 17 % of those crossing the Mediterranean in the Mediterranean to reach Italy. Among them, approximately 70 % travel alone, without a father or legal guardian, crowded in dark wine factories and without ventilation, often in long contact with fuel, causing burns and serious respiratory problems. In recent days, about 1,000 people have arrived in Lampedusa, including 80 unaccompanied palace.

Exploitation, ill -treatment, insecurity

They all flee wars, violence, poverty and destructive consequences for climate change. They are in danger along the way, and they are exploited and abused. However, they often flee their lives through trapper who do not care about “security, ethics, only with money,” Dell’arciprete said, noting that all this is the result of “the lack of safe and legal methods” and asking for more coordination “in search and rescue operations, safe landing, community reception and access to stones services”, as well as child care services. Because, in a period of year in which the peak of immigrant expatriates approaches, especially in Lambidosa, the promises of “never again” that were presented ten years ago and were repeated over time clearly.