News:
Two homeless men in Athens, beat to death another homeless man.
Reason?they wanted his shelter
What was the shelter?the yard of a closed cafeteria exposed to air, rain, cold.
Headlines:Immigrants kill a greek man.....
2 years ago in New York I had the chance to attend a lecture of Amartya Sen on his book, Identity and Violence.He claims that if the multifaceted identity of each person prevails, then there will be less violence.
The way the assassination was presented, made me think of the book.
These men were all homeless,regardless of nationality.
But what if there was social justice?Maybe there would be less violence...
To my dad who first told me about social justice..a real socialist man !
Numbers: 12.000 homeless in Athens
Available shelters: 500
Average age: younger than 50 years old
Main Reason: Unemployment
Source:http://www.klimaka.org.gr/newsite/index.htm
http://www.klimaka-cosmos.net/
1 comment:
very true, unfortunately. There are so many disappointing exemples in my mind! being a Turkish person & "Midnight Express", a telling exemple...
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