Why do we try to help refugees?

Nobody in their right mind would start a war. Nobody in their right mind wants to die. Nobody chooses to die just for… for what? And today? Today, in the “new” wars we see today, all around us, once again, people are dying, by the hundreds and thousands a day. And the civilians… they are, once again, the victims and pay a huge price. Every, single, day. So, that’s why we try to help the blameless victims of the war. Today. That’s why we try to help refugees. Today.

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Poznan Cemetery today: 174 Commonwealth servicemen, 39 Polish soldiers and officers of the 3rd Aviation Regiment who fell during the German bombardment of the Ławicy airport on 1 September 1939, 76 Poles who were executed by the German occupation force at Fort V, 14 Poles who were executed by the German occupation force on the Golęcinie cemetery in the period 1939-1940, 82 inhabitans of Poznań who fell in February 1945 during the assault on the citadel by the Red Army, Unknown number of prisoners of the Żabikowo camp who were burned alive in January 1945, Victims of the Stalinist terror years, 5830 Soviet soldiers and 1 Polish pilot from the Second World War, 8000 German war graves from the Second World War, 260 Polish war graves, a mass grave of Polish civilians who died in the aerial bombardments of Poznan in September 1939, memorial for the missing victims of fascism and communism.

And what did we learn from all of this? That’s the big question….. That’s why we try to help refugees. Today.