PWe were shocked again and again we were sorry. And we got angry. Not everyone, of course. We were shocked, saddened and angry all those who always feel the same feelings in listening to a tragedy about shipwrecks or unleashing immigrants and refugees.
A sea-deserted cemetery. Hurry people. Looking for a better tomorrow. Of course, it is of little importance where and when tragedies occur with refugees and immigrants. But when these wrecks occur in our neighborhood, in our sea, pain becomes stronger. It becomes ours. Because we seem to be complicit. Everything suits refugees, but the authorities make everyone crazy. And they are already refusing to investigate the complaints.
Some, then, are sorry and angry and react. And it usually happens to those who do not have the power to change the situation. Some decision -making centers are satisfied with evidence that we say, “we have reduced the migration”, “we treated the immigration”, and riding in the press conferences.
What happened in Kavo Greco in the previous days is equivalent to the Pylos tragedy in Greece. One of the most multiplex in the world. Hundreds of desperate, helpless in a fisherman, were buried in the sea and Greece is accused of omissions of its port to help rescue them. The numbers of the shipwreck in Kavo Greco may be clearly smaller, but it is not a human tragedy what happened.
The UNHCR talks about refugees in Cyprus talks about re -existence, an act that is equivalent to crime. The responsible ministers of defense, justice, and the Deputy Minister of Immigration make all the other crazy and the only prudent are the same. And yet, those who seek investigation are fighting the Republic of Cyprus. “I would expect some of our permanent critics about the issue concerning the immigration to finally say what their views and positions are and to tell us, clearly, if they want the Republic of Cyprus to have coordinated bodies and to protect and safeguard the interests of the Cypriot people.”
And at the same time, with these behaviors, another crime is taking place. Racist rhetoric is increasing and becoming an ever -xenophobic and intolerant estate. Every refugee and immigrant becomes a “red cloth”, an enemy and unwanted. How many times can you hear that “supervision of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus, whether by land or by the sea, is imperative for us to have at least the self-esteem it needs as a Member State of the international community”? As if we said the opposite. But when you suggest it and at the time of the crime, you gain public opinion. You are aiming for it. Their refugees do not drown them. The indifference of where the land holds it.