He had a name, all in seek was a home !!

As harrowing scenes of the lifeless body of 3-year old boy clad in a red shirt and tiny sneakers lying face down at Turkish shores continues to haunt humanity particularly Europe, the migration crisis of European Union has now the prime media glare across the globe. Aylan Kurdi is one of many refugees who have lost their lives en-route to seeking asylum fleeing troubled situations back home but is the most heart rending scenes that has put the European leadership in a real fix to handle the alarmingly escalating number of refugees seeking asylum in member nations.

The EU migrants’ crisis originates from trouble torn nations such as Libya where a fresh spark of disturbance has been born, the war ridden Syria, many of the North African instable nations such as Somalia, Nigeria and even Afghanistan, Pakistan and so on. Statistics state a total of 36,800 pending asylum requests, mostly for Germany after it opened doors to all immigrants, while illegal immigrants’ counts suggest something around 200,000. This has led to a huge pressure on the resource constraints of the nations with such high numbers of migrants thereby prompting the EU’s Frontex to upgrade external Schengen borders.

The primary movement of refugees is from Turkey into Greece, making Greece a prime entry-point to Germany. Unpleasant scenes of sufferings by the refugees have surfaced in recent times with the Greek government refused the migrants to take a train to Germany. The Budapest station is thronged by thousands of such immigrants waiting to complete their journey onwards. It was only yesterday when the Greek government finally allowed a train to Germany overcrowded with refugees. 

Sans this, the other key route to enter EU is through the Mediterranean sea where drowning of overcrowded boats has accounted for as many as 22,000 lives lost or disappeared. As the Italian mission to search and rescue incoming refugees stays constraint owing lack of financial support from EU, the tentative approach of employing gunboats for driving away refugee boats came under severe criticism with pics of dead Aylan leading newslines.

Presently, EU is facing serious problems with the alarming statistics of immigrants and the threads of union are loosening as member nations struggle to find a suitable solution to this precarious situation. The erstwhile refugee policy drafted way back during World War II has been rendered lacklustre for this situation demanding fresh brainstorming into the issue.

Though the problem is critical and diplomatic in nature, the solution to this crisis, must be drafted keeping humanity in the driving seat than politics.