She asked him about his situation and what took him into it. He explained that his father sold land to finance his departure from Afghanistan because of the bad situation there. Allen, tearfully, apologised in the name of Britain, the bad situation that her country put the Afghan population into. She exactly said: 'Bombed your country, put you in the hands of the Taliban and now we’re putting you at risk, risking your life to get into our country. I apologise on behalf of my country. I’m sorry for what we’ve put you through.'
The afghan boy told to the singer that he has the right to go to Britain, considering that there there's his father.
On the other hand, others celebrities like Lily Allen disapproved the Britian's role in the refugee crisis in France, such as Carey Mulligan. The actress said that she was ashamed to be British after the UK's "inaction" in this issue.
Finally, the news explains that according to the UN refugee Agency, there is about 21.3 million refugees, 3.2 million asylum seekers and 40.8 million migrants. It also revealed that about 88,000 refugee children are estimated to be stuck in Europe without their parents and many of them have faced violence, police brutality and even jail.
This video shows a part of the documentary filmmed in Calais.
Personally, I think that this is an important issue that all of us we have to be aware of. First of all, I could like to say that every fact has its own causes and consequences, and the situation in Afghanistan (the same as others Western Asia countries) is just a fact created by a succession of earlier causes. We could say that the US's and its alliances occupation of Afghanistan favoured a lot the current civil war there. As always, the US's and its alliances occupates territories and provocates a lot of instabilities in those territories just because of their own interests, specially in the Middle East. The higher amount of energy resources, the strategic ubication of the countries there, between other facts, leads them to have the desire of taking the control of those regions. Then, after they have finished using all the advantage of those states, they leave them in a bad situation, as Lily Allen said 'Bombed your country, put you in hands of the Taliban...'
For me it is funny (ironically) the continually complaints of some government about the high number of refugees in Europe. They are complaining about a consequence of a fact caused by them a long time ago. That is why I think that the governments have to take responsability of what they have created indirectly.
Finally, I recognise that it is obvious the alert level of instability or collapse in the country. The massive crush of refugees could bring diferent types of crisis or other results. But I think that it is not an excuse to act, at least, as a humanity that we supposedly are.
Vocabulary:
Asylum seekers: persona que solicita asil.
