Violet
11th August 2015, 21:03
The boat refugees that arrive on European soil at one point stopped being a majority of black Africans.
Just in case you thought all those Syrians got bored of being Syrians in Syria, and their neighbours bored of being their neighbours (both of which of course we can never fully exclude), things have gone very fast for Syria in the last few years.
The story of neighbouring Iraq (and Afghanistan) we already know. Again those people weren't necessarily bored with their mountain views either when in great numbers they too decided to massively boat over to Europe.
The - now alarmingly high rates of - boating and escaping happened after their rulers were...dismissed and national structures collapsed.
Someone, well not one, two maybe (probably even more), is playing "who me"?
And I think it's appalling.
Just in case you thought all those Syrians got bored of being Syrians in Syria, and their neighbours bored of being their neighbours (both of which of course we can never fully exclude), things have gone very fast for Syria in the last few years.
The story of neighbouring Iraq (and Afghanistan) we already know. Again those people weren't necessarily bored with their mountain views either when in great numbers they too decided to massively boat over to Europe.
The - now alarmingly high rates of - boating and escaping happened after their rulers were...dismissed and national structures collapsed.
Someone, well not one, two maybe (probably even more), is playing "who me"?
And I think it's appalling.