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Posted on December 28, 2008 @ 11:48 am by massimo | Filed under: africa,another green world,beach,blog,illustration,island,news,people,politics,travel,wordpress

Someone told me on the Vietnamese boat people who had landed on Pulao Kapas’ beach many years before.  I came across the boat’s wreck a few days later. The boat’s left over, nearly completely buried by the sand, really struck me. I stopped and stayed by that unplanned and clandestine monument a long while and   felt distinctly the very tragedy that was behind it…
Since a few years Italy is first in Europe for illegal immigration by sea. Some 25.000 desperate people somehow reached our shores in 2008. During the last three days, from dec 24 up to dec 26, about 1500 African  migrants have landed in Lampedusa Island, nearby Sicily.
Due to jingle bells and the like, Italians mostly have not paid much attention to this significant occurrence, while the ghosts of Christmas ideals rerun on Prime Minister Berlusconi’s Channel Five…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: clandestine

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6 people have left comments

Very haunting story and nice interpretation of this weeks topic.

Nice composition of the art too.

tp wrote on December 28, 2008 - 12:34 pm UTC

Thanks for sharing this and the fantastic imagery you’ve created. The word needs to get out there and I’m glad you’ve created a piece about this. Bravo! Great commentary and image on humanity!

Indigene wrote on December 30, 2008 - 4:02 am UTC

So happy to see you are back with your beautiful work!

LDahl wrote on January 4, 2009 - 11:47 am UTC

Ciao Massimo great u r bak to bloggin. Io sono in tour con la biscia .Quest’anno me ne sono andato ad esplorare l’isola di Biliran (Panamao) un isola vulcanica paradiso per i nature lovers. Faro’ un post sul blog quando torno .Ora sono a Zubu’per i treats di rito. Cheers nice post.

adventure chef wrote on February 9, 2009 - 6:34 am UTC

The word needs to get out there and I’m glad you’ve created a piece about this. Thank you for the article that you post. Thank you.

Julia wrote on January 25, 2011 - 4:30 pm UTC

It’s probably the first time (I believe) that I get to see this specific page, and the whole site really seems very inspiring.

Loraine Sitton wrote on May 8, 2011 - 8:34 pm UTC

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