Although 13,000 have died since 1993, you are unlikely to see any words of sympathy for them. No one will be raising funds to commemorate their lives, and most died anonymously in desperate circumstances. They are the refugees and economic migrants who are victims of the immigration laws designed to keep them out of Europe.
The grim statistics have been compiled by United for Intercultural Action, based in Amsterdam, and Europe’s biggest anti-racist network, bringing together more than 500 organisations in 46 countries.
It has published the list of deaths – compiled from government figures, bodies such as the Institute of Race Relations, newspapers, radio and television stations – to try and re-enact the stories of the people behind the numbers and to give them new visibility. Some died of exhaustion and exposure, some were crushed to death in lorries, and some drowned in the sea.
A spokesman for United said: “Many are asylum seekers and refugees fleeing conflict, persecution and violence but the majority are economic migrants for whom leaving their homes and families, perhaps forever, is never an easy choice, but often a necessary one. It is an act of survival for the migrants’ families, a great sacrifice with unknown rewards or failures.”
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/01/29/thousands-of-refugees-have-died-in-anonymity/
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