Reuters, London :
Four-month-old Syrian baby Faris Ali froze to death in a tent in Turkey, five-year-old Afghan Sajida Ali’s body washed ashore after a shipwreck, and tiny Samuel drowned with his mother as she tried to reach Spain after leaving home in Congo.
The three children are among thousands of victims listed by a German newspaper in an attempt to put a human face on the tragedy that has unfolded in the Mediterranean where thousands of refugees and migrants have died en route to Europe.
Der Tagesspiegel newspaper said it wanted to show the victims “as human beings, with an origin, a past, a life”.
Not all those listed drowned in shipwrecks. Some were thrown overboard.
The document is headlined a “List of 33,293 registered asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, who died because of the restrictive policies of Fortress Europe”.
Hundreds of thousands fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa have tried to reach Europe in recent years.
Four-month-old Syrian baby Faris Ali froze to death in a tent in Turkey, five-year-old Afghan Sajida Ali’s body washed ashore after a shipwreck, and tiny Samuel drowned with his mother as she tried to reach Spain after leaving home in Congo.
The three children are among thousands of victims listed by a German newspaper in an attempt to put a human face on the tragedy that has unfolded in the Mediterranean where thousands of refugees and migrants have died en route to Europe.
Der Tagesspiegel newspaper said it wanted to show the victims “as human beings, with an origin, a past, a life”.
Not all those listed drowned in shipwrecks. Some were thrown overboard.
The document is headlined a “List of 33,293 registered asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, who died because of the restrictive policies of Fortress Europe”.
Hundreds of thousands fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa have tried to reach Europe in recent years.
