Initially, he had planned to stay only a week. Speaking to Euronews from his home late one evening, Aldeen recalls, “What I did that week changed my life.” Soon after departing Greece he returned with people he knew in Denmark were also eager to help the thousands of people, many of them fleeing conflict in Syria and Iraq. Source 8p
Life Imprisonment: Salam Aldeen For Saving Lives At Sea (Hover)
This is the weirdness of the world. Governments would rather the people died than try to help because it means less of them that reach to their shores.
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