The destitute migrants scenes were heart wrenching. However, many migrants of age group between 25 yrs and 40 years with their modern gears and mobiles did not look refugees but seemed they grabbed the opportunity for economic reason. They all wanted to go to Germany.
Angela Merkel's unscrupulous statement that Germany would take 800,000 refugees, created crises not just for the destitute rushing to escape, but also for the EU countries, only the traffickers benefited.
One journalist stated that Germany was trying to get over the guilt of atrocities to Jewish people.
But Saturday’s Times reported that she embraces this people for economic reason as present German population is aging (obviously needs replacing by young). The paper also reported that the father of Aylan whose body was found on the beach was working for smugglers and was driving the flimsy boat, panicked, sped when a big wave hit the boat and it capsized.
Mr Cameron's response (on humanitarian grounds) was well considered. U.K. will take 20,000 from Syrian borders camps (not from exodus to Europe), giving priority to children elderly and sick over next 4.5 years. Perhaps smaller number would have been more appropriate for small country like Britain.
Though other countries have taken large numbers, resettling the refugees in the border camps nearer home, under the umbrella of U.N. would ease the pain for all concerned.
Ila Kapadia
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