Giorgia Meloni: I won’t allow Italy to become Europe’s refugee camp (www.theguardian.com)

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Italy’s far-right prime minister has said she will not allow the country to become “Europe’s refugee camp”, after thousands of people seeking refuge landed on its shores, prompting France to tighten controls at its border with Italy.

Giorgia Meloni told the UN general assembly in New York that the huge numbers arriving in Lampedusa, a tiny Sicilian island that for years has been the first port of call for people crossing a perilous stretch of the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa, had placed Italy “under incredible pressure”.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bombed Gaddafi out of power, leaving power vacuum and destruction that has transformed a once stable country into a failed state riled by civil war after civil since. This was just a bit over ten years ago. I'm saying this while being no fan of Gaddafi.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The man had literal rape rooms in his palace, but that doesn't mean you bomb the shit out of the country and just hope it works itself out.

Or if you do, don't complain about the refugees...

Especially when you're fuckin Italy and it was one of your colonies.

[-] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 1 year ago

your fascist fucking grandpa is literally Mussolini

That's not Meloni, I think you might be confusing her with Alessandra Mussolini. Even then, I don't think it's fair to hold people accountable for the actions of their ancestors, even when said ancestors are dictators such as "literally Mussolini".

and it's one of his old colonies

If anything what made the country so destabilized, ultimately leading to Gaddafi's rise, was the "liberation" (read as neocolonialism) brought by the British. A similar fate happened to all the other former Italian colonies such as Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea.

I'm all for the right of self determination of people and decolonization was a traumatic process for many African countries (think of French Algeria for one), but it's probably not a coincidence that all of those territories are now failed or war torn states. A smoother and more democratic process after WW2 might probably have helped the regions, but it's not fair to blame Italy for it's lack.