Today, what happened to Ukraine makes us see once again who is the last victim in the struggle for power.
When mountains and rivers are drawn into battle maps and gun smoke chases after people, all "ordinary" may be transformed into "extravagant imaginations".
Under the clouds of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, countless Ukrainian people were forced to have a new historical symbol - refugees.
Can the backs of the Ukrainian border fleeing the flames of war really control the wheel of fate and get rid of the nightmare of war?
Under the nest, there are finished eggs.
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On March 9, in order to ensure the safe evacuation of Ukrainian civilians in the humanitarian corridors of Kiev, Kharkov and other places, Russia once again activated the "quiet mode" and provided 120 tons of relief supplies to Kharkiv Oblast.
• Ukrainian people lining up to pick up supplies
Does this mean that the war has subsided and the dawn of peace is coming?
No, the negotiations were unsuccessful and the situation remained unclear. But another figure released by the United Nations is particularly striking: more than 2 million people have fled Ukraine since the outbreak of conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The informed official added: "Half of them are children.
● In early March, the main influx of Ukrainian refugees to neighboring countries and the number of refugees (the number is still rising)
2 million people, how many families are involved? More than 1 million child refugees, can they all have parental protection?
As the saying goes, people are not grass and trees, and they can be ruthless. As displaced Ukrainians crossed the border and flocked to neighboring countries, a warm scene occurred:
At the Berlin railway station in Germany, many strangers patiently wait for the homeless with signs:
In Romania, many people voluntarily drive to the border to give away food and water:
In Poland, there are dedicated refugee camps, public transport is free, and all kinds of supplies are collected:
In Hungary, thousands of people have responded to charities' pleas for donations, with private cars parked at the border for free transport of refugees:
On the other side of the haze of war is the sympathy and help of ordinary people for the unfortunate.
However, the spontaneous love of people in various countries is ultimately a drop in the bucket compared to millions of refugees.
As early as March 6, the Moldovan prime minister spoke to the media that there were too many Ukrainian refugees pouring into Moldova, which had reached the upper limit of the country's containment capacity and urgently needed EU assistance.
"Now, one in eight children in Moldova is a refugee."
Even more bizarre is the fact that Britain, which constantly clamors for "London stands with Kiev" and is called a "true friend" by Zelenskiy, has so far issued fewer than 800 visas to Ukrainian refugees.
Countless Ukrainians who fled the war in a hurry, after crossing the border, are waiting for a new round of "pushing": limited ability and no reception.
When refugees are like a tidal wave in the whirlpool of political struggle, every step of self-help is particularly difficult.
Recently, in Poland, where the largest influx of refugees, more and more "well-wishers" have begun to keep an eye on Ukrainians and secretly weave new nets.
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According to the Daily Mail, a Ukrainian woman was "lucky" to meet well-wishers after entering Poland: willing to send her to Warsaw for free.
"But when she arrived in Warsaw, she was suddenly asked for money, and she didn't have the money to pay the fees, so she was threatened to work on the (sex) trade to pay off the debt."
Finally, the woman kept shouting, attracting passers-by to watch, and only then did she succeed in escaping.
Polish police say similar "well-wishers" have been active at the border frequently lately. They are actually criminal gangs engaged in human trafficking and sex trafficking, attempting to abduct women and children under the pretext of "providing safe accommodation and free transportation".
At present, because most Ukrainian men are restricted from leaving the country, many refugees on the border are weak women, and even children who have no one to take care of them.
• Refugee girls on the Polish-Ukrainian border
"The gangs see this war as a money-making opportunity, and sadly, women and children can easily fall prey to evil."
A spokesman for the National Consulting and Intervention for Victims of Trafficking said the Polish border was already working on warning leaflets to warn female refugees entering Ukraine to be more careful.
However, a thin leaflet makes it difficult to eliminate this hidden danger lurking on the border.
A volunteer who has participated in border services admitted that many Ukrainians will hang their help information on the Internet before entering the country, "they are directly picked up by strange netizens who have never met after entering the country."
• Ukrainian refugees arrive at the Polish border crossing of Medica
It is hard to imagine that millions of Ukrainians who, after losing their homes in the pursuit of war, in a foreign country, the hand of "rescue" that they desperately hold may be a new round of squeezing and blowing.
Today, the number of refugees in Ukraine is still increasing, and the United Nations estimates that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is likely to lead to the flight of more than 5 million Ukrainians.
The soaring tide of refugees has triggered not only displacement, but also a resettlement crisis.
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In early March, the media noticed an orphanage in Zaporizhia, southeastern Ukraine, where 215 children had been forcibly relocated en masse as a result of the war. After a 24-hour train ride to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, the children were soon put on a bus to Poland.
"Very young kids holding cute toys. Not a single child cried or complained. The children were wide-eyed, hand-in-hand, and carried through the ticket hall crowded with refugees. ”
Looking at the thin and helpless figures, the director of the orphanage, Kutch, kept crying: "My heart is torn." ”
No one knows what kind of new home awaits these children in Poland, and no one knows what kind of challenges they will face alone in a foreign country when they are already alone.
● On the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, people fleeing
This is reminiscent of the astonishing figure released by Europol in 2016: between 2015 and 2016, at least more than 10,000 refugee children who traveled to Europe alone went missing.
Where have these children gone missing? The police are also unclear, but based on the information available, they are likely to be controlled by criminal gangs and sexually abused or enslaved.
It is no accident that refugees have been targeted by European criminal gangs.
In Europe, as the hardest hit area of human trafficking, many criminals behind it have formed transnational gangs.
In 2015, a large number of Syrian and Afghan refugees poured into Europe, which further stimulated the European human trafficking and trafficking industry, and criminal gangs profited more than $7 billion in a year.
Many European countries that flaunt "protect human rights" and "respect for individuals" have not given enough attention and protection to refugees after receiving refugees and setting up refugee camps.
"Refugee children from Syria and North Africa are rarely cared if they disappear in Greece or Italy, and the Border Authority rarely reports missing persons."
In September 2020, when a fire broke out in the Moriá refugee camp on the Greek island of, when the firefighters arrived, the refugees threw stones at the firefighters, prevented them from rescuing them, and organized a collective protest.
After the police investigation, it was found that the fire was set by the refugees themselves, and one of the main reasons was that the living environment was harsh. The refugee camp, which was originally planned to accommodate 3,000 people, was arranged by the government to include 13,000 people, and it coincided with the outbreak of the new crown virus, and the chaos in the camp can be imagined.
Disorderly camp management and loose border checks provide opportunities for traffickers to cheat and abduct.
"There are refugee camps in refugee hotspots such as Italy and Greece, where the identity of asylum seekers should be confirmed, but unfortunately they are used as detention centres." Many lonely children, after being treated horribly in refugee camps, choose to flee out of self-preservation, but after fleeing, almost no one knows who they are taken in and where they are going.
Those children and women abducted by criminal groups are precisely the "sought-after goods" on the black market of the underground human trafficking.
The "destination" that awaits them is roughly in four directions: to the sex industry, to cheap labor, to be illegally adopted, and to transplant organs.
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Long before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the situation of human trafficking in Ukraine was not optimistic.
In 2016, Ukraine exposed a case of human trafficking, and the trafficker turned out to be a school teacher. It was the teacher's student who was being trafficked.
Garina, a teacher who tries to kidnap her own students
Teachers abducting their own students? The reason is very magical: poor, sell students for money.
What she didn't know was that the buyer who contacted her was the policeman who had been tracking her for a long time. When the police proposed in the tone of a buyer that the female student be used for "organ trafficking", the teacher did not refuse, and directly offered a price of 8,050 euros, ready to hand over.
What kind of country is so poor that teachers sell students?
Ukraine, is really poor. In order to make money, many women are forced to engage in the pornography industry to support their families; in order to make money, more women are willing to sell their uterus and give birth to children.
● In Ukraine, where the per capita annual income is less than $3,500 (2018 data), successful surrogacy seekers receive 18,000 to 25,000 yuan in compensation
Traffickers have seized on this weakness of Ukrainians, often luring women abroad under the guise of going abroad for high-paying occupations, kidnapping, transporting, and selling.
Now, this sudden war has not only triggered international disputes, but also made European criminal gangs pay more attention to the "fat meat" of Ukraine, and what kind of tomorrow will Ukrainian women and children who are forced to leave the country encounter in a strange foreign land?
● Ukrainians facing separately at the station
The greatest scars of war will always be left to the civilian population.
In the aftermath of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, a woman living alone helplessly shouted helplessly in the street: "Where should I go, please tell me, where should I hide?" ”
Unarmed ordinary people, watching their homeland fall into ruins, have nowhere to hide.
It is even more lamentable that the elderly were devastated by war in the wind and candles and fled their homeland. Facing the camera, the old man named Marika couldn't stop shaking her head: "I'm old, I'm about to leave my familiar home, and no one can understand my feelings." ”
It is better to be a peaceful dog than a chaotic world.
The misfortunes of the home country are scattered over the heads of individuals, often with unbearable lightness.
Today, what happened to Ukraine makes us see clearly again:
In the struggle for power, who is the final victim.
And how can those who clamor for human rights care? Text/Yu Leaf