I have been following the photographer Aris Messinis on Twitter as he documents and assists in rescue missions to save the thousands of refugees drifting and drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. The numbers of people crushed into small boats is staggering. Smugglers are making mountains of money promising people safe transport to Europe, then abandoning them as soon as they reach international waters.
Messinis bears witness to the horrors desperate people suffer trying to find safety. Let no one say they are just too lazy or cowardly to stand up for themselves at home, or that they are terrorists invading our homes. Only someone with no other choice would sacrifice the little money they have and risk their lives to climb into a dinghy with a hundred other people to cross the open sea in blind hope of a better life. Of a life, period.
"Stepping on Bodies to Survive"
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