Greece boat disaster: Survivors blame Greek coastguard for tragedy
Greece boat disaster: Survivors blame Greek coastguard for tragedy
Survivors of the Greece boat disaster say an attempt by the Greek coastguard to tow the boat made it sink.
Survivors of the Greece boat disaster say an attempt by the Greek coastguard to tow the boat made it sink.
On one hand, remains of handful of people are being brought back from depths of titanic - while 750 of them are being thrown into the same depths to be lost forever.
Property > human life.
That is the reality of today we are living in.
This comparison is becoming quite tiresome, IMO.
The two incidents happened in completely different oceans, thousands of miles from each other, and involved two completely different sorts of salvage operation. The equipment used in one operation would have been basically useless in the other operation, even if it could have got there. There's nothing wrong about carrying out two different rescue operations simultaneously in the world, it's not some grand symbolic statement on wealth inequality or whatever.
There is absolutely something wrong spending millions on the search and rescue of a bunch of idiots who signed disclaimers and could easily have paid for a safe sub several times over. It's not the equipment used that is the issue it's the effort at all. Those billionaire morons simply don't deserve the effort, nor does it make any sense to have even tried. Unless their estate is footing the bill, but that sounds far fetched.
"The Greek authorities have previously denied this, claiming that when they tried to tie a rope to the boat to come aboard and assess the situation, people on board tried to remove it, saying they wanted to travel on to Italy. "
They probably tried to remove it because towing an old ship full of hundreds of people is really dangerous.
This is messed up and should never have happened.It sounds like the Greek coast guard really effed it up and are trying to make their part in this disappear.
As always. Greek officials instead of focusing on fixing their incompetence are focusing on covering it and stopping people talking about it. This is why there is a huge wave of criminalization of refugees, aid workers, and aid organizations but no retraining and proper investigations into misconduct. None of this is surprising. Or new.
Neither surprising nor new, but depressing nonetheless.
I dream of a world in which people already walking the Earth had their rights to live protected.
Because all we hear about is "protect unborn life!" and yet...