Why migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean are being buried in Berlin

When German activists buried a female Syrian refugee in Berlin on Tuesday, none of the invited guests showed up. All chairs -- reserved for German politicians such as Chancellor Angela Merkel -- remained empty. With their symbolic funeral and the absence of the country's political elite, the activists wanted to publicly condemn the seeming indifference with […]









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