We have an infinite capacity to tear our garments before the alien inhumanity and one stubborn myopia so as not to see one’s own. We know about the atrocities of Nazism or slavery and we see in its executioners the jaws of the monster. In those who designed the mechanism of horror, but also in those who kept silent. How did the German citizenry live unmoved by the persecution of their Jewish neighbors? How much indifference is necessary? At what moment does evil penetrate the bowels?
The slave ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean. To reach the maximum capacity of the ships, the captives traveled crowded, occupying minimal spaces. The death rate was high, some from illness, others from suicide, but the balance between profit and loss was profitable for the slaveholders. It produces chills to observe the sketches of the layout of the slaves.
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UK continues to toughen measures against migrants. First there was the idea of deporting to Rwanda all people who reached British shores irregularly. The European Court of Human Rights managed to stop the first flight, but the United Kingdom justice has considered the measure legal and will continue. Now the British government is preparing to house 500 male asylum seekers on a huge ship, the ‘Bibby Stockholm’, off the coast of Portland in Dorset. The measure is defended as a savings on accommodation costsand the ship’s gym and bar are alluded to as if that could save the ship’s image: a immense and claustrophobic prison. A painful confinement for people who survive after going through hell.
It is not the first time that the ‘Bibby Stockholm’ has been used to locate migrants. He also used it for the same purpose. Netherlands in the 2000s, although he ended up discarding it due to the suffocating atmosphere that was generated in it. Not that just UK politics. The catalog of atrocities committed against migrants is extensive and varied, let’s think of the Melilla fence or the CIE. Treating migrants as criminals is announcing to the public that they do not deserve dignity, rights or compassion. If they can be imprisoned without having committed a crime, if they can be held in worse conditions than in jail, if they can be beaten and humiliated, if they are not even considered worthy of stepping on the same ground, what are we doing? turning? At what point will evil finally permeate our bowels?