Ex-US leader Barack Obama slams Western hypocrisy, saying the fact that more attention is being paid to Titanic submersible than refugee boat sinking off Greece is 'rotten'
The fact that more attention is being paid to submersible carrying five people than refugee boat sinking off Greece with up to 700 people on board is "rotten," says ex-US president Barack Obama.Obama came to participate in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s Nostos 2023 conference. / Photo: AA
Former US president Barack Obama has slammed the hypocrisy of Western media concerning refugees and particularly in reference to the recent sinking of a refugee boat off southwestern Greece in which at least 82 people died and hundreds more are feared to have drowned. The fact that more attention is being paid to a submersible carrying five people that vanished off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada while on a tour of the Titanic's wreckage than the refugee boat sinking off Greece with up to 700 people on board is"rotten," he said on Thursday during an appearance in the Greek capital Athens.
"That's an untenable situation. And, you know, the notion that we can't do something about that is simply not true. We know we can do things for these people," Obama said in reference to the refugee flow to developed countries.
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