„Die Erde gehört uns allen. Militärisch-humanitär bewachte Meere und Grenzregionen: nicht in unserem Namen“
Everybody’s Earth. Military-Humanitarian Seas and Frontier Lands: Not in Our Name
On 3October, 2013 hundreds of people, men, women, girls and boys, and children died on Lampedusa, drowning a few hundred meters away from the coasts of the island. At that moment, all of us in different parts of the world, have seen the effect of current migration policies: a sea of deaths. Then, after having been the sea and reaching the shore, the deaths started to get confused with those who were alive; not only with the survivors but also with the residents of the island: where to place all those bodies, all those body bags, all those coffins? How should they be moved in Lampedusa? Where shall they be placed? In which cemeteries? From this sea of died people, also the Earth woke up narrower, covered by corpses in body bags lined up on the dock, and covered by numbered coffins in the airport’s hangar. This Earth was unprepared to find decent places for the survivors; incapable of managing the terrible operation of corpses’ recognition; overwhelmed by the sorrow of the relatives who were going around Lampedusa, coming from different places of the world, to give a name to the numbers placed on the coffins, while the coffins were carried and buried in different places of Sicily and there numbered.
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