The Journey. Part Two.

Cherry

By Maxine Jasmin-Green

Tue, 07 Dec 2021
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Breaking News!

Karl Maquinghen, the fisherman who gave the alert of the bodies floating on the sea, has twenty-one years’ experience on the sea, want to hug his kids tight, only two survivors. Twenty-seven died. (Info from N World thenationalnews.com)

After four hours and eighteen minutes, the dingy went down. Smuggling gangs to blame. No one had life jackets. No one had documents with them. Seventeen Men, Seven Women a Teenager and three children all perished.  (Info from N World thenationalnews.com)

The weather was calm in France, five Traffickers arrested in France on manslaughter charges. The distance in total was twenty miles. More than twenty-five thousand have made the dangerous journey this year. The dead are believed to be Iraqi or Kurds. (BBC News)

Kurdish Woman, nick name Baran, A Student had been in Germany first then France, her Fiancé in the UK didn’t know she was coming over, she wanted to surprise him, when she came with a female relative. (Independent)

The tiny inflatable dingy capsized. Her body will be flown back to Kurdistan. It may take weeks to identify the twenty-seven people as many did not carry any I.D. or documents. (Independent)  

Mariam Nouri Hamadameen. Age twenty-one. Rest in Peace. 07.12.21A.D.   

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Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is a brave attempt to try to make sense of the senseless Grace - and to remind us of the humans behind the statistics. Well done

 

Submitted by Maxine Jasmin-Green on

Hi thank you, it was a brave attempt indeed. 

Thank you for your Vaued Comments. 

Thank you SO much for my Cherries, they mean a lot.

Keep Safe. xXx

 

Submitted by Turlough on

I read news like this almost every day. It's sickening that an uncaring world can push people to the point where they have to risk their lives in this way. How bad must the life be that they are trying to escape from for them to accept that floating perilously in a dinghy on an open sea is a better option? 

A couple of hours drive from where I live in Bulgaria there is the refugee camp at Harmanli; the first point of refuge for many who have passed through Turkey or crossed the Mediterranean or the Black Sea from the war torn countries of the Middle East. A friend of mine runs a playgroup at the camp in the hope of readjusting the kids to a state of normality: a difficult task because their minds are so twisted by what they have seen. I went there once and met some of them and their parents. The stories of their journeys filled me with horror, especially those of the unaccompanied children.     

For many problems that crop up in the news I can see an answer, even if it is unlikely that my thoughts will ever become reality. But for this problem I see no answer. I can only see it getting worse as the superpowers flex their muscles around the world. Only governments and arms manufacturers can change things but what influence do people like me have over them? The situation makes me feel wretched when I think about it.

Turlough

Submitted by Maxine Jasmin-Green on

Thank you for your Valued Comments. I did not know children travelled alone. oh dear..........

;o(

Keep Safe. xXx

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

I read this and was a bit puzzled, then realised it was part two, so I read part one. What impressed me was how you brought to life (life? No irony intended), the story of this young woman and her companions. The second part brings it to its dreadful close.

Well done

Dougie

Dougie Moody

Submitted by Maxine Jasmin-Green on

Yes its always important to read part one first and then part two. Thank you I just couldn't get her out of my head and that is the title I did about her last week you can read it on here ABC Tales. I did my research and than I added the meat to the bones. 

Thank you for your Valued Comments. You keep Safe, xXx