"More than 1,315 have been killed and missing from January to early November of this year in the central Mediterranean in an attempt to reach Europe and 28,600 migrants intercepted at sea and brought back by the Libyan Coast Guard".
This is the photograph taken by Save the Children (based on IOM data) on the international day for the rights of migrants.
"We cannot turn the other way in the face of the inhumane policies of a Europe that ignores the suffering of men, women, girls and children on its borders," said Raffaela Milano, director of Save the Children's Italy-Europe programs.
Save the Children shines the spotlight on those "dead children overwhelmed by the waters while trying to cross a river between Croatia and Slovenia or of hunger and cold in the forest on the border between Belarus and Poland", on the "boys and girls, rejected dozens of times, often brutally and illegally, despite the minor age, victims and witnesses of atrocities along the Balkan route or detained and subjected to violence in Bulgaria. Men, women and children, who fled wars, conflicts, extreme poverty, in mirage of a future of peace, which have crossed countries and continents to find only borders armored by walls and barbed wire, kept away by water cannons, stun grenades and tear gas ". I am alone "guilty of seeking a possible future and peace for themselves and for their loved ones - continues Raffaella Milano -. We want to firmly say which side we are on and what we don't want. We do not want the lives of children and their families to be used as a bargaining chip and we also do not want a Europe where violence, abuse and deaths are considered collateral damage and where the defense of a border takes precedence over the protection of even a single one. human being".
