I heard, horrified, a profound practice that undermined the most elementary sense of human dignity, which took place around the construction of the Chongoene airport, in the Province of Gaza. During the program "Linha Directa", on RM, this Saturday, one of the participants, Carlos Mhula, was speaking representing the Gaza civil society association, had the following:
To make way for the construction of the aforementioned airport, around 400 families in the area were moved from there to other places. It was also necessary to eliminate family cemeteries, exhuming their mortal remains. It so happens that, instead of simply supporting the families to carry out these operations, which are deeply humanly sensitive, the government took it upon themselves to do so. For this purpose, small coffins were prepared, only doctors depositing the bones of the deceased. It happens, however, that some of these deceased received were recently buried and, therefore, their bodies are not yet incorporated into the totality.
And what did the agents appointed by the government services did: decide to cut these bodies into pieces, so that they could fit into the small boxes prepared for bones!
What
?!
According to Carlos Mhula, the families were asked to exhume the remains of their loved ones, which they would do, obeying their own rituals. Not having the means to have coffins made, some families would use mats, and with due dignity, they would bury them, again! But not!
And Mhula also informed that about 400 families removed from the place, where there were also their farms, never received any compensation or evaluation of any kind! And in a little while we're going to inaugurate that airport, with pomp and circumstance, and let's say that it means development.
"Development"...
Whose? Or indignity?!
By
T.V. Mário
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