The Migration Crisis.

The issue of migration to Europe is the litmus by which one can gauge the hollow humanism of the European Union (EU). In recent years, the migration crisis has exposed the EU and its indifference towards people who want to live in safe places. In yet another accident, at least forty Europe-bound migrants have gone missing in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea off Libya. This recent accident informs the world that the migration crisis is far from over. The migration crisis once made a hot news story. But then the issue lost its charm for the media. Will the world respond to the ongoing but long-forgotten problem only when another image of a kid lying dead on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea surfaces?

Despite all kinds of restrictions that the European Union (EU) have taken, people, desperate to find a safe home abroad, undertake the dangerous journey by sea to Europe. The harsh measures that the EU has taken in partnership with countries like Libya, Turkey and others have made these people vulnerable and exposed to armed groups...