Sadly, although not exactly the same, but maybe worse as we are not in a war, Europe nor the world, is doing nothing with Lesbos wich is not a concentration camp where they kill you, but you have many probabilities to die.
I think about it for many days and it is unacceptable and makes me feel we have not learned anything as a society. I saw an interview with a kid who lives now in town and was there for 1 year and he was not surprised by the fires. He said it is the only way they have for the authorities to react.
Just a few months ago, I had to listen from the Spanish vice minister that a boat from OpenArms a Spanish ONG whose mission is to save lives from the Mediterranean, did not have a license to rescue. In the ocean, you MUST rescue, it is the ocean law.
This is the type of politicians we have. Incapable to solve a humanitarian problem and point to the rescuers as if they were criminals for not having a License which is not needed as you HAVE to RESCUE in the sea. I believe they all should spend just 1hr next to the people the boat rescues, looking at their faces and feeling their bodies to realize how cruel they all are.
And we also, the rest of citizens, for not forcing them to react.
I think a lot of people have forgotten what is happening there and likely in other areas too.
I didn't know about the ocean law of must rescue - but what is interesting is there need be a law at all for these kinds of things. Humanity doesn't have a lot of humanity in it at times.
The idea of experiencing first-hand might end up happening through tech like VR/AR and sensors. I wonder if we could experience what others do, would we change our decisions.