ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月24日 22時56分

photo by @lynseyaddario | words by @neilshea13 — Aboard the Godetia, a Belgian ship patrolling the Mediterranean, meals for rescued migrants are simple—bread and water, rice and porridge, here and there a piece of candy. It’s not exciting, but it is food, and none of the migrants has come aboard carrying his own, which means they lost it, ate it, or never had any when they pushed out from the Libyan coast. For the Belgians, it’s bewildering. Who would cross this sea without food, without water? It suggests stupidity, or worse a kind of cleverness. We learn it is probably the latter. Human trafficking has evolved to this point: migrants are taught to expect rescue, and encouraged to look pathetic, so that European ships will be obliged to save them. Maritime law demands that sailors aid vessels in distress, and migrants, knowing this, will sometimes dump overboard water, food, and even the little engines that propel their rafts at first sight of a larger boat. Here is the state of play as warm weather returns to the Mediterranean and more travelers begin the crossing. It’s infuriating for some of the Belgians, who joke that their ship should be named Euro Taxi. They wonder how long it can go on. Still, most of the crew is sympathetic. One evening I climb to the bridge and watch with a sailor while migrants receive dinner. He and I live in the West, neither of us has ever known hunger. How can we ever describe that first awareness of it, the signal sent up from the belly which warns of emptiness, the emptiness which becomes a question, the question that begins to gnaw? The sailor stubs out his cigarette. If it were me, if it were my family's future, I’d be on a boat, too, he says.
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This is the fourth in a six-part Instagram series on African migration toward Europe. Last June, @neilshea13 and @lynseyaddario sailed with the Belgian navy as it patrolled the Mediterranean, rescuing travelers who’d begun the dangerous middle crossing. Join us as we share stories from the journey.
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