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Residenzpflicht Im Lagerland - Part II - From Tragedy To Disaster

from Bystanders by Bridges Left Burning

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they flee misery in their countries by the thousands. flee repression and persecution. willing to cross the mediterranean sea on overcrowded boats or makeshift floats and rafts. while frontex keeps ignoring human rights and asylum laws to hold the european fortress, fifteenhundred people die each year in the attempt to cross european borders. the mediterranean sea is a graveyard for thousands of migrants and refugees, desperately seeking survival and a dignified life in the stronghold europe. we need to break away from such inhuman policies! we need to scrape these laws and abolish all these camps! as they cast such a strange light on the shadows of our past. in not helping we act as an accessory to murder. i’d rather face the problem than to wash my hands in blood. you don’t think it’s easy to leave your family in a warzone, do you? i wouldn’t bet on you making it even just one day in these people’s shoes. it’s not easy to imagine a world in which you’re forced to flee, is it? we’re used to our safety but their frontyards are minefields, their sidewalks are trenches and our shutting off is spelling their doom.

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from Bystanders, released July 26, 2013
Written and produced by Bridges Left Burning
Recorded and mixed by Benedikt Hain @ Outback Recordings in Zwiesel Mastered by Ludwig Maier @ GKG Mastering in Freising
Artwork by Martin Hofmann, Augsburg

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