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Sleeping in Lampedusa, a victory for many

Tunis, Dec 15 (EFE) .- (Camera: Natalia Román) "Last night I slept in Lampedusa" has meant for almost five years a victory for thousands of sub-Saharan Africans who challenge the desert, distance, violence and brutality in a desperate attempt to regain their dignity usurped by poverty and repression.SOOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF:- Romdhane Ben Amor. Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights: This democratic transition has been limited only to the political question, but there is no economic or social transition. In July about 4,000 Tunisians managed to reach the Italian coast in a single month. We return again to the figures of 2011 due to the root causes that push people to emigrate and that are amplified ten years after the revolution. For us, this is a failure. - Mabrouka Houachi: They have arrested my husband as if he were a terrorist. A murderer is released and a person who goes abroad to heal his son is imprisoned. I find myself lost with my children and I have to beg from one mosque to another.He is my oldest son, nobody takes care of him. I am ready for anything. Even to sell my kidney or both if necessary.I say to God: it is the only thing I have left. It depends on him if I manage to get there or if I will be eaten by the fish. My life will be meaningless. - Lamine Hamed Othmane. Asylum seeker: I have no future or income, I have nothing. I left my country (Sudan) with only one objective, I was against the Government. I had a future but I lost it when I left the country. I went to Libya, then to Tunisia, three, four, five years went by ... I lost a lot of time. What is left of my life?