Red Alert Somalia

Chapter 87 Refugees

Refugees are part of the unfortunate people in human society who have no food and clothing and even have to leave their homes due to natural disasters.

What is a refugee and what a refugee is like.In the past, these were just pictures on TV and on the imagination of the chief official. Now, Li Lan deeply feels the meaning of the word refugee, and deeply feels the life of refugees.

Originally, Li Lan thought it would be difficult to attract refugees to the territory.He was wrong, and it was very wrong.When the soldiers drove a car equipped with a lama's propaganda device out of the territory, when they encountered a refugee gathering place, they just shouted a few words, and a large number of refugees rushed towards the base, and the scale of the number of people became more and more. Big.

At this moment, Li Lan was sitting in the front seat of the Hummer, watching the refugee groups that appeared from time to time along the road, watching the skinny refugees, and his heart became more and more congested.

The car moved very slowly, and it was very close to the refugees. The extremely slow movement of the refugees along the road allowed Li Lan to clearly see the appearance of each of them.

Compared to seeing the refugees in Bosasso, Li Lan felt that the refugees in Bosasso were very happy.

In this mainstream society, people often complain, complain about academic qualifications, complain about work, complain about life, complain about hatred for fatherlessness, and people also complain about what to do in life.In 2012, the word "happiness" was popular, but what is happiness?Is it a neon villa or a tall building?Is it Gucci or Louis Vuitton?Is it Mercedes or BMW or Maserati?And happiness is sometimes the bread that we once dismissed and discarded but let them pursue it with their lives.

July and August are the harvest season for farmers in the northern hemisphere, but many countries on the African continent are shrouded in the shadow of famine.

Coupled with wars and rampant warlords, the lives of civilians can be imagined.

People say that Africans are lazy, just sitting to death waiting for the assistance of others, and will not rely on their own hands to save themselves.However, in this place full of Gobi, how to let them save themselves.The war deprived the civilians of everything, the drought made crops cropless, and the famine everywhere made them search all the land, but they couldn't find food to eat.

Genocide, armed brutality, these things may be far away from us, but they are very close to them.

The drought that has swept through most of Africa this year has caused a rapid increase in the number of refugees in Africa. Especially in East Africa, five consecutive years of drier rainfall have caused droughts in countries such as Eritrea and Ethiopia, and the number of people in need of relief food has increased.In Ethiopia alone, 9 million people are chronically short of food.In Kenya, 1.5 million people need assistance from the government and the World Food Program due to the inability to grow food in arid and semi-arid areas.

The most difficult place in East Africa is Somalia. Compared with other countries in East Africa, Somalia faces more serious famine problems.

There was a sound of brakes, and dozens of soldiers armed with weapons came down from the convoy, frightening the moving refugee group on the side of the road and quickly leaving the convoy.

On the side of the road, seemingly a family of five refugees were sitting on the ground. They were already unable to continue on their way. Skinny hands and feet were exposed under the rough cloth.

Under the protection of the soldiers, Li Lan opened the car door and walked to the family.The refugee group, in the sudden situation, all stopped, staring at Li Lan and others with staring eyes.

At the family in front of him, Li Lan saw that they were lingering in the dilemma of extreme hunger, and they no longer had the strength and confidence to stand up. They just sat quietly.Lying or half-lying, awake, asleep or half-sleeping.They have no strength to move, even if they blink their eyelids, stretch their fingers, or move the corners of their mouths, they seem to be powerless.There was a ghostly cold and terrifying light projected in their eyes, almost "reflecting", and there was only a piece of skin and a skeleton left, and the god of death had quietly walked towards them.

From adults to children, everyone has sunken cheeks, from head to toe, like a pile of dry skeletons.Lifeless and skinny, these words can no longer describe the appearance of these people in Li Lan's eyes at the moment.

"Ask, where did they come from. How long have they not eaten?" Li Lan ordered the soldiers beside him.

Under Li Lan's order, the two soldiers walked into the refugee group and began to ask questions.

Soon, the two soldiers brought back the answer: "Commander, they all came from central Somalia. They used to gather a few kilometers east of here. They were on the way to our territory under our propaganda. "

"There are many of them who have not eaten for more than three days, and most of them have not drunk clean water for a long time. And among them, many of them are sick. Therefore, we strongly recommend that the commander should Get back to the car immediately and stay away from the crowd to prevent infectious diseases."

Li Lan did not speak, nor immediately returned to the car, but looked at the scene not far away, which seemed to be frozen.

The shriveled breast is like a withered pear, contained in the mouth of a skeleton child, where there is no milk.In order to comfort the child's hunger, the mother had to endure the pain of being sucked.Hunger comes from the destruction of the body, but the tragic scene in his eyes is close to people's hearts and tortured Li Lan's soul.

The mother and son with shrunken breasts were waiting for assistance. Li Lan could see that this mother was not very old, perhaps even less than sixteen.The mother's wrinkled breast-room has shrunk so much that she is unable to feed her own child.Her stomach had already begun to show severe edema, which could not last for a few days, and Li Lan couldn't avoid it with that cold gaze.

Among the refugees, a small figure crawled slowly on the gravel-filled ground, seemingly to reduce the weight of his body, without a piece of clothing on his body, he was completely a living bone frame, and he could not be seen on his body. A trace of meat, only a crumpled layer of skin stuck to the bone.

In the grass in the distance, there was a bare bone, and the bone in his eyes was already terrifying, and the hand left after being eaten by a wild dog made the scene even more mean.The picture in the eyes is almost symbolic, and the faces and bodies disappearing in the dust are stories of violence to humans.

Panicked eyes, surrounded by death fear, with a longing for life.

Li Lan slowly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and asked the guards around him: "Is this the same for all refugees?"

"should be."

"In such a bad situation, how can they get our territory, even if they get it, they can live a few people." Li Lan couldn't help but roar, perhaps it was the indignation of the soul, or the vent of injustice in the world.

He had never been in such a bad mood before. During this trip, he originally wanted to see the publicity situation, but he did not expect to see such a shocking picture.Refugees, in his heart, are nothing more than a group of civilians who have been wandering because of famine, and these people in front of him, skin and bones, can be used as bone specimens, and the scene of hell is no more than that.Even if it was said that these refugees in front of him had just crawled out of hell, he would believe it without hesitation.

If it was said that a few days ago he just took in refugees with a developmental mind, then he is now his conscience as a normal person and he has to do so.

Li Lan, who has seen all kinds of life in the world from a young age, has never considered himself a good person, but he will not make himself a bad person.He has a benevolent side, that is facing his own people, and he also has a cold side, that is facing the enemy.

For the enemy, he would raise the butcher knife without hesitation, and he would treat his own people with magnanimity and kindness.

However, Li Lan's heart throbbed when he saw the eyes that showed the desire to survive.

If he wants to save these people, he must save, because he is a normal person, and because these people are not his enemies, but just a group of poor people who need to be saved.

"Notify the base, send double the manpower, bring water and food, and meet the refugee group, it counts as much as you can save." Li Lan slowly opened his eyes and ordered the guards around him: "Bring us. The drinking water and food that come out are evenly distributed to them. And let the base, hurry up and send the water and food, we are waiting here."

"Yes."

When water and food were placed next to the refugee group, the entire refugee group quickly surrounded them. If it were not for the deterrence of the soldiers' weapons, I am afraid that these food and water have been looted.

There is not a lot of water and food. There are more than one hundred refugees, and everyone can only get a little bit.But this is extremely rare for these refugees.

And under the propaganda of the soldiers while sending out food, after learning that the food was given by the Chinese in front of them, and the purpose of their trip was also the territory of this Chinese, all the refugees kept bowing to Li Lan.

The scene before him caused Li Lan to fall into a long silence.

ps: Writing this chapter gorgeously, not to highlight any problems, but to hope that everyone can cherish the current life.

Why is there such a miserable image? In the final analysis, some people's material superiority must squeeze the other people's living materials, because the relationship between society to progress and competition is impossible to achieve balance, but it can be slowly approached.So when we have no illnesses and rare diseases, be grateful for life, and be grateful to others!Maybe a little help is nothing to us, but you are very valuable in the hands of others.

Perhaps some book friends will say something. For example, Example 1: These African refugees are very poor, but many of our compatriots are also very poor.Example 2: Why don't the protagonist have money to help the people of other countries instead of in his own country? This is a purely treasonous behavior.

Gorgeous wants to say that these are not the points.