A picture is worth a thousand words

[loreta]

Here you have a series of pictures about refugees. They are really good, they express this tragedy and they are pictures that we have almost never seen. They are hard, make us feel sad but I think they can give emotion, connection. I think that pictures, in this drama, shows us what is really happening. Words sometimes can not express the real horror of what is happening. When I look at these pictures it is not my intellect that reacts, it is my eyes that becomes full of tears.

http://hd.clarin.com/tagged/inmigrantes

 

[Thebull]

tragic.

 

[Gary]

Here you have a series of pictures about refugees. They are really good, they express this tragedy and they are pictures that we have almost never seen. They are hard, make us feel sad but I think they can give emotion, connection. I think that pictures, in this drama, shows us what is really happening. Words sometimes can not express the real horror of what is happening. When I look at these pictures it is not my intellect that reacts, it is my eyes that becomes full of tears.

http://hd.clarin.com/tagged/inmigrantes

Thanks for sharing loreta. These photos are truly moving - tear forming and heart wrenching! Recognizing this horror, understanding why it happens (psychopathology), feeling the suffering and DOing something to alleviate this terrible suffering - however we can, is part of the process of BEing a real human imo.

 

[Konstantin]

Here you have a series of pictures about refugees. They are really good, they express this tragedy and they are pictures that we have almost never seen. They are hard, make us feel sad but I think they can give emotion, connection. I think that pictures, in this drama, shows us what is really happening. Words sometimes can not express the real horror of what is happening. When I look at these pictures it is not my intellect that reacts, it is my eyes that becomes full of tears.

_http://hd.clarin.com/tagged/inmigrantes

Same here. It`s a horror. When i opened the link and when i saw the first picture of a dead children on a beach my eyes become full of tears and like some switch turned on inside me and i get really sad. I`m really sorry for all those people. I always get a strong emotional reaction whenever i see some images like that. I get goosebumps , my eyes become full of tears and i get really sad. I cant look at them anymore. I looked just the first page and stopped. Its a horror that is happening in front of our eyes every single day :(

 

[hesperides]

True, these photos irremediably strengthen our connection with all these PTB victims. What a shame!!

I´m starting to get really upset seeing how people around still can think of this faster and faster growing flood of refugees as a temporary event that won´t ever touch their own life one bit. Mind you!

Last week one of my 60 years old German neighbour just came back from a trip to Germany and told me everything was perfect and fantastic (her words) over there and that nothing had changed at social and political level. She then proudly added there were immigrant camps installed in nearly every German city. As I prudently asked her whether it was true that unemployment had been greatly reduced there thanks to part-time work schedule, she just washed it away saying, 'of course, yes, yes, that´s true!'. God knows how much more will have to happen until people start looking away from their navel and over self-confidence.

I miss some elemental and basic educative explanation of the real EU state of affairs towards immigrants on medias, like this very short video from PhD. Hans Rosling. I think it can´t be said more clearly and at the same time appeals to our imagination so that the mind may grasp better the scope of this tragedy and our own involvement in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_QrIapiNOw

 

[loreta]

I just hope that this situation will wake up some people, that they will start to understand who are the culprit, read about psychopathy. .. Maybe this situation will unite people and this union will be also very good when other tragedies will come, because they will come. In a sort of wave of humanity. Maybe. Or nothing will happen, after two 3 weeks everything will return to normality... Like when the earthquake in Haiti, after one month everything was forgotten, also when the Tsunami. We will see.

 

[Gawan]

As so often the victims are forgotten: children. And they suffered already enough beforehand when a war broke out and of course not only them. As others have said it is a real tragedy.

 

[Kisito]

Why information and photos go faster than rescue. I am cautious on the famous the little 3 year old found stranded on the sand yesterday. How is it that this photo was all over social networks, and there was another photo of him with his teddy bear? Looks like the communication was as fast as that of Charlie Hebdo! How they got the picture? The parent-they had this photo on them? Why then are no photos of the parents? Is this not another way to macchiavélique accept the wave of immégration in europe? Europe destabilize and control the Middle East ..

 

[luke wilson]

Its tragic. Poor children caught up and suffering. Poor men and women who have yo endure this. Victims across the board. How many families are separated through this crisis? Tragedy. And politicians call them swarms and cockroaches.... Psychopaths are running the world to the ground and humans are their victims.

 

[Juba]

It is so hard to look at these pictures and not to cry, but after reading more about the story behind the death of innocent children, can't stop wonder if this world is nothing more but a hell for normal people and playground for sociopaths and PTB in 3D and 4D STS?
Turkish media identified the boy as three-year-old Aylan Kurdi and reported that his five-year-old brother had also met a similar death. Both had reportedly hailed from the northern Syrian town of Kobani, but after whole tragedy the rest of the family was denied right to get refugee status in Canada. No other country showed any mercy for Aylan Kurdi's family and the rest of the people from last tragedy on Med. Some have criticized the Independent newspaper's decision to publish the images on grounds because they are too graphic???
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150903/1026544072/Europe-refugee-crisis-Aylan-Kurdi.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/shocking-image-of-drowned-syrian-boy-shows-tragic-plight-of-refugees

 

[Hesper]

Some have criticized the Independent newspaper's decision to publish the images on grounds because they are too graphic???

And that's half the problem, isn't it? These people don't mind that children suffer this grotesque fate - escaping NATO's global holocaust - they just don't want to see it.

Is this not another way to macchiavélique accept the wave of immégration in europe? Europe destabilize and control the Middle East ..

The photo has spread quickly, but I think it's more a sign of the power of the image itself. Are you saying that this is a psy-ops campaign to make people feel responsible for the suffering they caused in the Middle East, and thereby accept the waves of immigration? I doubt that, since it seems the campaign happens to be, time and time again, to make sure people do not accept the 'other side'. Divide and conquer.

 

[theos]

I´m starting to get really upset seeing how people around still can think of this faster and faster growing flood of refugees as a temporary event that won´t ever touch their own life one bit. Mind you!

The lack of empathy from most people is astounding. People are so comfortable in their lives and lack even the imagination to picture themselves in the shoes of the refugees. Can you imagine being a parent and going out to by inner tubes and water wings for you children because you're about to take them across the ocean in a raft to a foreign country where you know no one, don't speak the language and have no money, food or prospects? And you're doing his because your own country is unlive-able!

Maybe because this situation so dark and so terrible that thinking about the horrors of it would force people to see the reality of the world we live in and it's just too painful to be shaken from their comfortable lives.

 

[casper]

I have no words to describe the horror looking at these images, images of dead child in the sand, terrible, poor people, poor parents who have to bury their children, poor children who lost their parents in the chaos.

 

[Xico]

me too, this is really sad and horrible, we are immersed in a chaotic turbulence, everywhere you look there is death and sorrow and i wonder what is the end result of all of this, with tears in my eyes I hope Divine cosmic mind have mercy on all those souls.

 

[loreta]

Surely there is a sort of mass manipulation about the picture of the little boy on the beach, I think so. This picture has two sides, like a dime. One side is that people react emotionally, they feel the horror of the situation, can maybe ask themselves what is the reason of all of this, can feel empathy, feel how it is to have a child that dies like that. The other side, I was thinking looking of all the posts in FB of this picture, is that we tend to forget the mass, big huge mass of people behind this little boy. Is like we just see a little boy but this is just a grain of sand, around you have thousand of thousand of thousand of people that are here, waiting in terrible conditions, no water, no food, dramas, hysteria, etc. and we don't see pictures of them, or maybe so little. Maybe I am exaggerating the analysis. I don't like to be manipulated, so I protect always when I see too many about one situation. What I mean is that the problem, the real problem is the mess in Syria, the war. Our politicians. How they are guilty of murder, destruction, bombing, torturing, massacring, annihilating Syria. This little boy on the beach tends to make us -maybe- to be distracted. Also, personally, I don't want to forget the other little boys and girls, from Syria, that are living a true hell waiting without food, without water with their parents, waiting, waiting.