2025-08-19
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There are three graves, simple, made from grey marble,
on a raised platform on the edge of the graveyard.
And there's a tin roof over them to protect them from the elements and give some shade.
And above the graves, a photograph of two young men and a young woman.
Hazem is saying that he visits the graveyard twice a week.
The family will come here and sit here and they clean the graves.
They bring sometimes food and do stuff for them to eat and stay here with the other family members.
Hazem Kali and his family have been conducting this sad ritual for nearly 10 years now.
Ever since the summer of 2015,
when an unprecedented number of migrants set out on a journey to seek safety in Europe.
They came from the Middle East and beyond.
Two of Hazem's children were part of that exodus.
So was his younger brother.
But there was to be no happy ending for them.
All three died on the road.
And in the most horrific of circumstances, This is the documentary from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Thorpe, and in this edition of Assignment,
I'll be asking how their deaths could have been prevented.
In Hazem's home in the town of Hanke, his wife Gourie serves tea.