Fire at Sea Page #3

This is my testimony.

We could no longer stay in Nigeria.

Many were dying, most were bombed.

We were bombed,

and we flee from Nigeria,

we ran to the desert,

we went Sahara Desert and many died.

In Sahara Desert many were dying.

Raping and killing many people

and we could not stay.

We flee to Libya.

And Libya was a city of ISIS

and Libya was a place not to stay.

We cried on our knees,

"What shall we do?"

The mountains could not hide us,

the people could not hide us

and we ran to the sea.

On the journey on the sea,

too many passengers died.

They got lost in the sea.

A boat was carrying 90 passengers.

Only 30 were rescued

and the rest died.

Today we are alive.

The sea is not a place to pass by.

The sea is not a road.

Oh, but today we are alive.

It is risky in life

not to take a risk,

because life itself is a risk.

We stayed for many weeks

in Sahara Desert.

Many were dying with hunger,

many were drinking their piss.

All, to survive,

we drank our piss to survive

because that was the journey of life.

We stayed in the desert,

the water finished.

We began to drink our piss.

We said, "God,

don't let us die in the desert."

And we got to Libya

and Libyans would not pity us.

They would not save us

because we are Africans.

And they locked us in their prisons.

Many went to prison for one year.

Many went to prison for six years,

many died in the prison.

Libya prison was very terrible.

No food in the prison.

Every day beating, no water

and many of us escape.

And today we are here, God rescue us.

Without risk we enter the sea.

If we cannot die in Libyan prison,

we cannot die in the sea.

And we went to sea and did not die.

With this swell...

I threw up everything.

Have you ever thrown up

when you're out at sea?

Did you ever throw up out at sea,

when you were a kid?

I didn't throw up,

but I've been sick.

- Never threw up?

- No.

I get sick and I throw up too.

You're still young, Samuele.

You're still young.

You need to start going

on the pontoon.

When there's a swell.

Instead of playing

with your slingshot,

go to the pontoon

to build up your stomach.

All right.

So you can go to sea

with no problems.

With your stomach used to it.

Being on land or at sea

will be the same.

There were 840 on this boat.

These were the ones in first class,

they were outside,

they paid $1,500.

Then there were those

in second class,

here in the middle,

they paid 1,000,

then, I didn't know this,

down in the hold

there were so many,

they paid $800,

they were the third class.

When I got them ashore

there was no end to them.

No end.

Hundreds of women and children

were in bad shape,

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