Quelle: Askavusa Lampedusa
Since this morning, in Lampedusa many Erithreans are protesting one more time because they refuse to leave their fingerprints and thus to apply for asylum in Italy. We strongly support their protest, and we wish to opens a reflection on a few other issues:
- The regularization of the journeys and the possibility of travelling safely and to any destination.
- Once again we need to ask ourselves: why do these people have decided to leave their own countries? What is the role of the Western Governments in the destablization of entire geographical areas, in the weapons’ sale and production, in the historical robbery of resources in the “third world”?
- The third issue is related to Lampedusa: why this small island must be subject to such political, social and mediatic pression? Although Lampedusa has received medals and International award and it was even candidate for the Nobel Prize for Peace, it still has uninhabitable schools, a very precarious healthcare, a very expensive and difficult connection with the mainland, a wholly militarized territory and many more problems.