The Cost of Passage
There are more refugees than ever in 2014, and their mode of transport is no more sophisticated than it was hundreds of years ago. On World Refugee Day, galling photos document what it takes to stay alive with hundreds of others on a boat meant for only a few.
By Elizabeth Griffin
They were looking for home when the wave broke. Nineteen feet of water swelled up and crashed down on their blue and bare boats, packed to the edges with hundreds of souls hoping for something better than what they'd escaped. Behind them, a war and lost brothers, lost sisters, lost parents and grandparents, lost friends, lost sons and daughters, lost hope. Behind them, their streets in rubble and the daily threat of losing their own lives just by sleeping in their own beds or walking to a neighbor's.
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