Female Olympic sprinter from Somalia Samia Yusuf Omar (2008 Beijing, 200m) died with boat people near Sicilia, trying to reach the London Olympic Games
title=”Cayuco con inmigrantes (Boat with subsaharian inmigrants). by Miguelángel
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related:
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/story-challenge-letter-a/
http://derstandard.at/1345164676101/Somalische-Fahnentraegerin-bei-Ueberfahrt-gestorben
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Flickr Comments 
a tragic story, thanks for sharing it frizz
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I saw this story on the bbc site, so very sad.
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Sad indeed.
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wow…very sad.
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I had not heard this yet…
very, very sad…
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This was news to me too. So sad.
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Such a tragic story. I was not even aware of this.
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Awful and sad …
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What a terrible tragedy this was. Thanks for sharing, ft.
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To think that she and the others who died were all running for their lives. We take our freedom so much for granted.
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Wow; I get so little news aside from the top headlines; How in-congruent that such a vivid and colorful boat would be responsible for such tragic news. 😦
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yes, Lisa Brunetti in Ecuador, pleased to know, that you are following the rules of Thoreau: the boats are wonderful artworks: often destroyed by high tech police and military boats … – I’m sure, Thoreau would feel anger, not only civil disobedience …
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/thoreau/
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how sad that those beautiful boats are often destroyed. tenfold sad if people are aboard when they’re destroyed. there is so much hatred and anger that spans all countries and cultures; we’ve not evolved very much as a species, have we.
back to the boats; it’s like destroying a soul, but then all war seems to be about destroying souls.
the colorful boats reflect the true spirit of those people, and along comes a bully and takes that away from them.
thanks for your reply. Z
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there’s an African immigrants’ boat cemetery in Lampedusa (Italian island) – with hundreds of colorful destroyed boats … if those boats could tell their stories – but there is silence on the boat cemetery on Lampedusa
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13443687
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http://www.demotix.com/news/818292/migrant-boat-cemetery-lampedusa/all-media
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I would love to see that cemetery. Thank you so much for sharing so much interesting trivia and beautiful images. Lisa/z
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hi Lisa,
as a painter living on a river shore
you maybe would be inspired
to paint boats in Ecuador colorful …
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But of course! One of my dreams is to find an old boat ready to be put to pasture and break it down into manageable sections, transport it to a quiet stream with big trees and put the ark in the treetops and convert it into a studio!
😀 Z
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our son in law will build a tree-house soon – as a tribute to THOREAU:
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/thoreau/
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How great! That will be a great future post from your blog!
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