Afghans | It Is What It Is

~~September 8, 2015~~

WHY DO PEOPLE MIGRATE?

Refugees are the Victims of US-NATO led Wars

*Background: The European Refugee Crisis*

by Stefan Bauschard

More than 350,000 refugees have arrived in the 28 nation EU this year. There were 626,000 applications for asylum in 2014. This is in addition to the two million that Turkey has taken in.

Europe is “ground zero” for the refugee crisis.

Frontex, the agency in charge of guarding the EU border, estimates that about 340,000 migrants have tried to sneak into Europe in 2015 so far, almost three times as many as in 2014. Along with the surge in numbers, the demographics of the travelers have also changed.

These days, the bulk of them are Syrians fleeing violence at home, Afghans escaping their own ongoing civil war, Roma from Kosovo looking to avoid discrimination, and Eritreans fleeing a dictatorship comparable to the one in North Korea. Whereas in 2014, the bulk of refugees came to Europe through Italy from Libya and Tunisia, now more people arrive in Greece after crossing Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Macedonia and Hungary have also seen a surge in traffic.

Although the reason for this shift remains uncertain, it seems likely that reports of frequent drownings on the long journey from northern Africa to Italy, and the increasingly volatile situation in Libya, have convinced many refugees to try their luck over land. (Kaelin)
Most of these are fleeing the civil war in Syria, but many others are also fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Nigeria, Somolia, and Sudan.

~~GALLERY~~

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Five issues have recently brought the issue to the forefront of media attention

ONE: a growing number of people have drowned attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea with the support of smugglers in boats. The humanitarian plight was highlighted by photos of a fully-clothed three-year old boy who drowned and whose body washed ashore. Photos of the dead boy laying on a beach were widely distributed across the Internet.

TWO: many refuges who had made their way into Hungary (Hungary is the primary entry point in the EU for refugees) became stranded at the Keleti train station when Hungarian authorities were not letting trains pass to Austria because the refugees hadn’t registered.

THREE: the situation between police and the refugees has turned violent.

FOUR: 71 people were found dead in a smuggler’s truck Southeast of Vienna on August 27th.

FIFTH: there are daily complications from the flow of refugees.

“As it appears in …. full read/full credit’

https://bauscharddebate.com/2015/09/06/background-the-european-refugee-crisis-free-with-registration/

I must say that I wasn’t totally informed about this situation until the picture of the three year old flashed through the internet.

I had heard rumblings about refugees crossing and drowning in the Mediterranean Sea but wasn’t really following the events in that corner of the world.

I’m looking into it now.

What I see is nothing short than massive human suffering caused by conflict, war and major disregard for human rights.

I’ve read that these refugees are victims of US-NATO led wars.

WARS!! INVASION!! GREED!! PROFIT!!

Where is humanity heading?

This senseless violence must stop.

This is the perfect example of “what touches one, touches all”.

As these refugees “move” from home, so many other countries are “affected” as they either ignore the issue or try their hand at compassion.

HortyRex©

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/syrian-refugees/salopek-text

~~This Is Why People Migrate~~

AJ+ YouTube Channel

~Published on Aug 3, 2014~

Immigrants, migrants and refugees are often in the news — but why do people get up and leave their homes in the first place?

AJ+ host Dena Takruri explains the root causes behind migration around the world.

Three main reasons of major Global Migration

War and persecution

Economic opportunity

The environment

*SOURCES*
United Nations International Migration Report 2013: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa…

UNHCR: http://www.unhcr.org/53a155bc6.html

“Changing Patterns of Global Migration and Remittances”: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/1…

“Mexican Immigrants in the United States”: http://migrationpolicy.org/article/me…

“International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs in Manufacturing Industries, by Industry, 2008-2012”: http://www.bls.gov/fls/ichccindustry.htm

“Labor Migration in the United Arab Emirates: Challenges and Responses”: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/articl…

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We ALL are connected through HUMANITY!!

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We ALL are ONE!!

~~SECOND GALLERY~~

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Where Everything is Music

We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.

The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and if the whole world’s harp
should burn up,
there will still be hidden instruments
playing, playing

This singing art
is sea foam.
The graceful movements
come from a pearl
somewhere
on the ocean floor.

Poems reach up like spindrift
and the edge of driftwood
along the beach
wanting, wanting

They derive from a slow
and powerful root
that we cannot see.

Stop the words now.
Open the window
in the center of your chest,
and let the spirits fly
in and out!

~~SOURCES~~

~Yasmeen Improv with Persian Musicians, Rumi Poetry Song~

~Published on Jun 9, 2014~

listen on SoundCloud the full song
https://soundcloud.com/yasmeen-olya

By the water, lift my feet up, striving for the right path we find love.

Yasmeen

Offical website http://www.yasmeenolya.com

I always see the remedy in pain.I see the subtle gift and fidelity in angry quarrels and betrayals.
When I look down, I don’t see the earth.
And when I look up,
I don’t see the vault of the sky.
Whatever I glance at I see You.

~RUMI~

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad, and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi’s importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. Iranians, Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims as well as the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world’s languages and transposed into various formats.

He has been described as the “most popular poet in America” and the “best selling poet in the US”.