Sicily’s Missing-Migrant Detectives — Refugees Deeply

Voici le commissaire qui s’occupe de cela:
Commissario straordinario del Governo per le persone scomparse

Ogni anno in Italia scompaiono circa un migliaio di persone. Nonostante la maggior parte venga ritrovata dopo pochi giorni, il fenomeno genera allarme sociale. La strategia di contrasto attuata dal Commissario straordinario, che coinvolge Forze dell’ordine e magistratura, passa per il monitoraggio dei dati e il coordinamento delle attività di ricerca che ha consentito, dall’istituzione del commissario a oggi, un significativo calo delle persone ancora da ricercare.

▻http://www.interno.gov.it/it/ministero/commissario-straordinario-governo-persone-scomparse

Et les activités de ce commissaire:

L’attività del Commissario
▻http://www.interno.gov.it/it/ministero/commissario-persone-scomparse/lattivita-commissario

A défaut de les secourir, il faut bien montrer que les italiens font quelque chose.
Même chose pour tous les pays européens, bien sur.

@bce_106_6 : Franchement, je pense que, et une fois n’est pas coutume, dans cette histoire de migrations, l’Italie n’est de loin pas la pire des élèves, bien au contraire...
v. notamment ce qui s’est passé avec Mare Nostrum...

Farnesina: protocol is signed to identify the thousands of migrants who died at sea

ROME, APRIL 12 – Thousands of headstones in the cemeteries of Southern Italy have no names. Other corpses end-up on the bottom of the sea, corroded by salt or eaten by fish. Thousands of migrants who fall victim to drowning in the Mediterranean, remain unidentified. Their families, in their countries of origin or in Europe, don’t even know if their loved ones are dead or alive.

▻http://www.onuitalia.com/2017/04/12/farnesina-protocol-signed-identify-thousands-migrants-die-sea

Italy, Greece to launch plan to identify missing migrants

Four European Mediterranean countries are launching an initiative in June to identify thousands of missing migrants who died or went missing during the perilous sea crossing to the continent.

Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus — hardest hit by waves of migrants form Syria and Libya or people elsewhere in Africa — will gather on June 11 in Rome to discuss the plan, the #International_Commission_on_Missing_Persons (#ICMP) said on Wednesday.

“If we succeed in launching this initiative, and it looks very good that we will, it will be historical,” ICMP director general Kathryne Bomberger said in The Hague, where the inter-governmental organisation is based.

Amid the biggest migrant crisis to hit Europe since World War II, Italy alone has recovered some 8,000 bodies from Mediterranean waters over the last decade, the ICMP said.

The cooperation between states will help to properly quantify the numbers of missing and dead, track survivors and locate bodies, Bomberger said.

Southern Mediterranean countries like Libya and Egypt are also to be invited as observers to the talks, she added.

Since the beginning of the year, almost 18,000 migrants arrived in Europe by sea, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Some 559 people were already reported dead or missing, the IOM added.

“There are so many discussions today about the data, discussions that I think are rather negative ... but the data also have positive endings,” Bomberger said at a meeting with foreign correspondents.

Switzerland has donated around $400,000 (323,000 euros) to fund the project.

The ICMP was born out of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and set up in 1996 in Sarajevo by then US president Bill Clinton.

Using increasingly sophisticated DNA research methods, it has already succeeded in identifying some 70 percent of the 40,000 people who went missing in the Balkans conflicts of the 1990s, including 90 percent of the 8,000 killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

But over the past years it has increasingly lent its expertise to other tragedies, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, or the devastating Hurricane Haiyan which hit the Philippines in November 2013.

▻https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/italy-greece-launch-plan-identify-missing-migrants-doc-1450j51
#Grèce

Sicily’s Missing-Migrant Detectives

Meet the Italians driven by a sense of history and humanity to identify the refugees and migrants who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean.

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#Luminusa

Ha un nome che evoca la luce, il fuoco, e nelle giornate limpide ti sembra di percepire la grana dell’aria – argento puro. In fondo al suo mare, che ha tutte le sfumature del verde, dell’azzurro e del blu, giacciono ventimila morti senza nome, ammazzati. Di loro restano a volte tracce dilavate dalla salsedine: un sandalo infradito a rombi bianchi e neri comprato al mercato di Sfax, la foto di una sposa dalla pelle nerissima in abito di pizzo bianco, un rotolo di lettere in tigrino, una cassetta di Bob Marley. Ed è qui, a Lampedusa, che Mario, con malinconica determinazione, è venuto ad affrontare il suo segreto senso di inappartenenza e l’incertezza del futuro. Come se raccogliere quelle tracce in un minuscolo museo e salvaguardarne la memoria con didascalie in versi scritte su fragile carta velina potesse rendere più tollerabile la disillusione. Come se solo a Lampedusa, crocevia di destini, di strazio e di solidarietà, fosse possibile rispecchiarsi in chi ha osato cercare la salvezza su un barcone, e tornare a sperare. Con «Luminusa», #Franca_Cavagnoli ci costringe a guardare con altri occhi alla terra promessa di Lampedusa, alle tragedie e agli sbarchi che affollano le cronache: per scoprire, guidati dalla voce limpida e ribelle di Mario, la nostra, comune e universale, condizione di migranti.

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