The Title of the Article that I chose is called Horror at Sea: Adrift for Months, Starving Asylum Seekers Threw 98 Bodies Overboard. Writen by Emily Rauhala
http://world.time.com/2013/02/19/horror-at-sea-adrift-for-months-starving-asylum-seekers-threw-98-bodies-overboard/
The title pretty much sums it all up. Thirty two Asylum seekers were rescued by the Sri Lankan navy. By definition Asylums seeker are people that have protection and immunity from extradition granted by a government to a political refugee from another country. These Asylum seekers set sail on a wooden boat, and then the stuggles began. The Muslims were on their way to seek refugee in Indonesia and Australia, when their wooden boat filled with over a hundred people began to veer off course and they became stranded for over two months. On top of being stranded for two months they went twenty one days without food. As a result ninty eight people were thrown overboard.
If this story isnt the perfect example of struggle, I dont know what is. The Asylum seekers struggles started even before their failed voyage. The Muslims left on a wooden boat to excape the everyday struggles that they faced from their homeland. They risked their lives and everything that they had for a fresh start, which shows that the conditions of where they were from must have been terrible. Little did they know that their futures were filled with even more struggle. Aboard the Muslims faced the struggles of hunger, and the death of loved ones. People had to throw their moms, dads, brothers, sister, and neighbors overboard. This is something that no one should ever go through.
With every struggle though there is hope. The people that survived and were recued have a chance to start over.
