A camp in southern Tunisia, Choucha. The desert.
On June 30th 2013 the camp closed : water and electricity were cut off. The Non-Governmental Organizations withdrew ; no more healthcare. Yet 700 escapees from the Libyan conflict, refugees with no country to go to, their requests for asylum rejected, have survived in that ghost place for two and a half years. Refusing to integrate into the locality following an attack on the camp, and their papers having expired, the families are trapped in a Kafkaesque situation. Should they try to survive in the middle of the desert, or attempt the dangerous sea journey to Lampedusa via Libya ?
Their testimonies make us question the strategies adopted
to help and protect the victims of current conflicts.
How is it that the system which is thought to protect them
ends up by excluding the most vulnerable ?