The woman who survived... and the child who died: Heartbreaking scenes on Greek island as rescuers

[Surya Gayatri]

drag drowning migrants from capsized ship after 1,000 die in THREE tragedies in just 24 hours





* The pair were passengers on board a wooden migrant boat from when it ran aground in Rhodes, Greece

* Three died in the tragedy which is the third in 24 hours across European waters with up to 1,000 feared dead

* Yesterday a ship carrying a reported 950 people capsized off Libya when its passengers rushed to one side

* Some 300 people who were locked in its hull by callous human smugglers 'died like rats in a cage' when it sank

* Italian prosecutors are investigation claims the vessel may have overturned after colliding with a merchant ship

* Two more boats in distress on Monday afternoon as European leaders call an emergency summit to handle crisis





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3046653/Horror-trapped-migrants-final-moments-300-terrified-people-locked-ship-s-hold-capsized-way-Europe-leaving-900-dead.html

[Skittles]

1. is it too much to ask

where was God?

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Well, if you believe he's some bearded old dude at the end of the universe, I guess

he was looking on with bemusement through his ultra-high-powered telescope.

[alphafemale]

9. Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Those poor people

Replied to wrong thread. Meant to reply to the one above you.

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Beautifully phrased, alphafemale...

[alphafemale]

11. From "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald"

Gordon Lightfoot

[Surya Gayatri]

13. I will keep it in my mental file of great quotes...

[phil89]

15. If "God"

Had the power to stop it and didn't people are more moral than God.

[CoffeeCat]

14. Welllllllll….

….if one of my Facebook friends is accurate, he was busy fixing her pool pump.

Seriously. She walked outside the other day and her pool pump was broke. She walks outside two days later and it's working. She has insisted that God fixed her pool pump and she praised him for doing this.

I swear…there are days I don't know whether to shit or go sailing.

[Skittles]

17. I guess the sentiment that bothers me

is survivors who say "God was watching out" for them.....it strikes me as extreme narcissism, especially when others did not survive

[CoffeeCat]

19. I see this stuff all of the time on Facebook...

I constantly see comments about "The Lord is good!" when a child survives cancer. When a child dies of cancer, we're told that "God wanted that person with him now."

People constantly praising God for the near-miss car accident or their husband getting a great job. Seriously? You think God is a micro-manager? Furthermore, you actually believe that there is some deity who would do nothing about masses of starving children or catastrophic tsunamis--yet you're so special that he was attuned to your husband's search for a great accounting job?

I feel sorry for human beings sometimes. But happy to live during times when people are waking up a bit.

[Skittles]

20. I think it is just people who are unable to accept reality

I don't care much what they think (besides being disgusted) until they start their freaking thumping

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. tragic.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Heartwrenching. 'I just want to be human', as one of the interviewed survivors said.

[Fred Sanders]

5. More folks killed, by far, in these tragedies in a week than terrorist attacks in America in 15 years.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. ^^^This!^^^

Just a question of perspective, I guess.

[guillaumeb]

7. Yet more blowback from another US intervention that failed.

Each time that the US invades and destroys a country, there is no remake of the country. Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, the list is long. The US invades, the country disintegrates, the US leaves.

The media of course ignores the cause of the tragedies because anything that happened more than 30 days ago is old news.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. A trail of desolation...

[guillaumeb]

12. A trail of desolation that is never pursued to the source,

the biggest threat to a peaceful planet. The US. At least that is what the rest of the world believes. See the link:

http://rt.com/news/us-biggest-threat-peace-079/

But most US citizens are true believers in the religion of American exceptionalism.

[bvar22]

16. Thank You for bringing this up.

I guess all those Freedom Bombs didn't work in Libya.

[Skittles]

18. K&R