Posted on 10/10/2015 11:14:26 AM PDT by Lorianne
Buried beneath low mounds of earth, facing Mecca, lay Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian refugees who drowned this summer in the Aegean Sea trying to reach Europe in flimsy inflatable boats.
Scanning the area, Christos Mavrakidis, a somber, hardened man who looks after one of the main cemeteries on Greece's Lesbos island, listed the years of other deaths: "2013, 2014, 2015."
Now there is no room left in the narrow plot of land in the pauper's section of St. Panteleimon cemetery, close to where the colonnaded tombs of wealthy Greeks are built in the classical Greek style, and flowers adorn lavish marble graves.
"Something must be done," he said. "They are a lot. They are too many."
No one can say where the next bodies will be buried.
The number of burials at St. Panteleimon has also risen. More than three dozen migrants are buried in a tiny, dusty plot on a hill overlooking the island. Four were buried there last week alone.
Some of the makeshift, earthen graves bear a small marble plaque with a name in paint or marker: "Saad 4-9-2015." Others state simply: "Unknown 25-8-2015"; "Unknown 28-8-2015"; "No 14 5-1-2013". The most recent graves lack any marking.
Many more dead have never been found. Locals say fishermen sometimes dump bodies back into the sea, like fish they are not permitted to catch, to avoid having to hand them over to the authorities and face questioning and bureaucracy.
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“Locals say fishermen sometimes dump bodies back into the sea, like fish they are not permitted to catch, to avoid having to hand them over to the authorities and face questioning and bureaucracy.”
Hope the word gets back to wherever they’re coming from.
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Yeah, Lesbos is a real No Man’s Land.
It's more than they'd do for you.
Lesbos island + fishing = New Walking Dead series
Great, just what we need- a bunch of zombie lesbians. Come to think of it, that would be a lot like a typical taping of “The View”.
CC
They will eventually resort to burning piles of corpses on the beaches.
So much for the tourist trade...
Whatever they do with the bodies, pig guts and cameras need to be part of the solution
First chapter of Camp of the Saints is absolutely prophetic.
I’d say the tourists aren’t flocking there now.
L
Give them a proper Christian burial at sea.
Geez, even in death they crowd out everyone else...
So when do the Muslims demand not to be buried in paupers' graves and that the name of the cemetery be changed to Abdullah Hussein?
Dig them up and send them back to point of origin, postage due.
And they still speak of the fabled Lesbian whale: it breathes through a hole in its head and has a forty foot long tongue.
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