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September 2016

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Life Jacket 'graveyard'

Parliament Square, London. Mon 19 Sep 2016

  

 
 The life jackets worn by adults and children refugees to cross from Turkey to Greece fill the square

 there were apparently 2,500 of them. Roughly 5,000 people are expected to drown trying to cross this year

 I met Green Party co-Leader Jonathan Bartley for the second time today as he was looking at the life jackets

 He was very moved by the display but told me that when he had tweeted about it he had received some

 disturbing racist comments

 

 

 Some of the lifejackets were very small for chi'dren

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

and they had cartoons on them 

 

 

 
   

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