In hospital A survivor of the five Eritrean sea
"Pregnant women on the boat
I've seen abortion and death"
survivor tells
Titi Titi, the surviving
PALERMO - "On board c ' three women were also pregnant. Two of them die before they lost the baby she was carrying, were aborted because of hunger, thirst, and the suffering of a terrifying journey lasted 21 days. " He speaks broken English Tazria Titi, 27, Eritrea, the only woman who survived the disaster in the Strait of Sicily. But the agony of those fellow travelers who cultivated the hope of a better life especially for the creatures that were carrying it also tells a gesture. Raise your head from the pillow with difficulty and moves his hands down, touching the belly as to shape the horror of those fetuses that are off the womb. A gesture that brings her silence among doctors and nurses in Palermo Cervello Hospital where yesterday arrived by helicopter along with another fellow 24 year old Halligam Tissfaraly that if it is curled up holding his arm outstretched to a drip.
Titi is also visibly tried, but with eyes wide and almost in despair when he fails to make himself understood. "On board we had practically nothing - he says - only a few bottles of water, little food and even a telephone to summon assistance. At the start we were 78, mostly Ethiopians and Eritreans as well as Nigeria. We realize that some had died during the night because they fell into the sea, others we had to leave us. Pregnant women are those who have suffered most, we do not know how to assist and comfort them. But shortly after losing the baby died too. "
And then gives his version on the controversial issue of rescue Maltese. "They gave us food, water and gasoline, but left us at sea. Another boat was also approached to give us food and water. But no one has taken us on board. " It is evasive to face the question directly if they were to refuse the transfer on boats that have provided food. He insists: "We were only given water and food, while other ships have not even approached. We reach, we shouted, asking for help but they pretended not to see us. " Titi for transfer to hospital was necessary for its precarious health ('will recover soon, "ensure the doctors).
Behind its current weakness can be glimpsed a habit of suffering that has been crucial to withstand 21 days at the mercy of the sea. Perhaps what remains of military life that was intended. In Eritrea, attending what she calls "military academy" and that perhaps it is the hardest, "Sawa", where women suffer all kinds of violence. "It was a life that I did not like - it just says you - and I wanted a different life." Titi is unmarried and has no children. In his country he left his mother, a brother and sister who work in a company Agricultural and says she has not paid anything for the trip: "To pay for me was my uncle, but I do not know how much he paid." He knows what he has instead had to suffer before reaching the long-awaited journey of hope in Italy: "A year and eight months I had to wait before boarding-tells - while remaining a long time in Sudan and then several months in Libya."
not speak or prefer to keep him stories of violence in Eritrea and along the way to Italy, but lights up the room with his big smile when you mention the future: "I have asked for political asylum - scans-I left because I wanted to come in Italy. Not in Germany but in France or Italy. I want to stay here. I am willing to do any kind of work but I finally have a better life. "
Alfio Sciacca
August 24, 2009
Considerations
... and I see people, in complete indifference, turn to shopping malls to spend money on unnecessary things. Others address the financial, in order to buy a first class ticket for a cruise that will take them away paesei. I wonder away from whom and from what? How can a human being to feel distant from one another and the pain like this test?
If my suffering and living in similar conditions as those of Titi, I feel part of her, and she'll stand beside in all possible ways.
I know you are not alone in my view of life that many would call "crazy."
Then, someone gives us the detonator, dynamite that's us!
Chiapillita
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