Bring you the moving story of the Tunisian fisherman who's made it his personal mission to bury migrants who have drowned at sea he goes out in his boat to pick up bodies and also finds them washed up on the shore I think about their suffering a lot it seems that life has rejected these people and for me personally I'm not going to reject them and that's why I want to give them proper burial proper funeral ensure them some respect almost all the migrants he buries a nameless and he will never know their family circumstances but chums of the Muslim because created a special cemetery with hundreds of numbered graves to give them a dignified final resting place he calls it the cemetery of strangers so I prefer to do it my way so I just bury them in individual graves that have numbers and I decided to be their family because they have nobody here or from terms of in my soup in Tunisia and many other stories too after the latest b.b.c. News. Hello I'm Justin Green with the b.b.c. 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Will have more musical dreams later in the program but 1st we go to judges in southern Tunisia where the bodies of migrants are often found in the sea or washed up on the beach these are the hundreds of men women and children who drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe it's often impossible to identify them but a local fisherman chum's it in Marzouk has made it his personal mission to give a proper burial to each body he finds through an interpreter he told me more about the problem. The manager probably be one of them she. Became aware of the illegal immigration problem since 2002 because I live down south into media very close to the Libyan border but since the Arab Spring of 2011 the problem has become far worse and a lot more illegal immigrants are trying to cross over into Europe but since Libya is in chaos they now moved on to media you know what if if Yes and obviously some of them come in very flimsy boats and boats to get into trouble did you start out by saving people from the sea. And I heard of. I've been at it with various N.G.O.s who try to rescue illegal immigrants but before these N.G.O.s started operating 26000 in the Mediterranean as a fisherman and sailor May and my other fellow fisherman used to rescue a lot of people in 2006 when you found the 1st bodies What was your reaction how did you feel. It was a feeling of all being overwhelmed by so many emotions going through my mind you know my heart was beating so much faster when I saw that body and my mind was just racing with why did this person die what did they die for what condition are the bodies in when you pick them up. More often than not the bodies have already started decomposing they've been at sea for several days and of course they would be missing at leg or an arm because you know he creatures with everything them and the tension is just unbearable but because I believe so strongly in what I'm doing in trying to help these people I don't worry anymore about this tension or about the missing part just get on with it what did you start doing with the 1st bodies that you found like. Really I picked up the 1st body x. Ray and actually it wasn't just one body there were 3 of them so picked them up brought them to shore and then I went through to the various government departments to get all the paperwork required for their burial Why did you feel that you had to carry out the burial wasn't there any official body that could have done it about. A corporation with the Red Crescent the equivalent of the Red Cross. And of course government bodies are responsible for these drowned illegal immigrants but there must be some want to cooperate with them as well especially that me personally do not approve of how they do it in Libya next door in Libya they have mass graves which are completely anonymous I don't like that at all because it makes them a non-entity so I prefer to do it my way to cooperate with the governing bodies get all that require permits for their barrios and then bury them in individual graves with numbers even though these people don't have their I didn't because papers on them so I just burned them in individual graves that had numbers and I decided to be their family because they have nobody here and where did you carry out the burials did you have to find a special plot of land and. Well there is a plot of land that we are using as a cemetery it's not very beg it's owned by the government and it used to be our rubbish land felt so we cleaned it all up and used it as to Miter However now it's trailing up with Graves and bodies and so I sent out an s.o.s. To various N.G.O.s and other countries specially in Europe to help us buy a new plot of land and dedicated for the illegal immigrants you say it's filling up how many people do you estimate that you have buried so far about 'd So far I've heard around the 400 that my God is in 2017 alone is $75.00 people and do you conduct a ceremony for each individual person who. I act as a human being is. Dignifying that that is very and they must soon as possible. It didn't say very muscular says Berry the dad whoever they are and as a human being I do not see skin color I don't not see what they follow or not so I treat them all equally and I do my best to give them a dignified burial and these all people who you have personally rescued from the sea or do other people who brought bodies to shore bring them to you for burial. Near you their own bodies brought by every fisherman around but also by the Coast Guards all the bodies are unknown because these people get rid of their documentation and I didn't occasion papers obviously to make the crossing into Europe and not to be repatriated to their home country except one of them whom we know her name she's called Rosemary because her husband told us so she was 28 years old and she was a teacher from Nigeria she was brought ashore by the Coast Guard and presumably you go about the ritual of washing the body before it's buried it must be a very personal thing to do do you do that alone with just you in the body or do you have any help or ability. But if I do all the washing up on my own a lot of thoughts go through my mind while it mellow and watching that body I think about this person who they are I know nothing about them I don't know where they come from what they believe in what you cation they had or not but the overwhelming thought in my mind is this person has left people behind where their own children or siblings or parents who are so polar having a very hard life and hoping if not steering that this person has made it across into Europe and to when they are going to be spending some money to help them and leave their hardship so lots and lots of things go through my mind I just think this person as finished and. All the hopes of their family are dashed it must be a very emotional experience do you sometimes feel those emotions strongly Well only . 63000000 motioned for me to think about. The body in front of me that I'm watching and their story and their lives you know the people of Africa have been suffering Kwara lots they risked their own lives to make the crossing from sub-Saharan Africa all the way to Europe some die in the desert in the great Saharan Desert other make it into Libya hoping that they can make the crossing into Europe get into flimsy plasticky boat and then they die especially I think about their suffering a lot it seems that life has rejected these people and for me personally I'm not going to reject them and that's why I want to give them proper burial proper funeral and show them some respect how do you mark the graves awarded you. Obviously all these bodies are and identified except the one I mentioned earlier so we use the universal method of marking grains which is numbers so we put the same number on the body itself and then on the back on the plastic bag that contains a body and then on the grave itself obviously we don't know anything about these people we don't know what country they come from what religion they followed if any so we just use numbers we don't have to steal it is to conduct d.n.a. Testing here and we have appealed to various countries and various N.G.O.s to help us set up something like this so we can dignify these people and by the way this symmetry I have named this mystery of the strangers because that's what these people are have you ever been approached by a family member searching for a loved one who wonders whether you might have buried them. 3 Syrians who died on the border with Libya and we bear them. In a cemetery and been guarded than their relatives have come to ask about them and to visit their graves but with Africans Usually this doesn't happen except in one single case which had the husband of rosemary and I mentioned earlier so he came and visited the symmetry was it her grave and he was extremely grateful for what we did with respecting her body and giving her a proper burial so I made a marble plaque with her name her date of death and her country home country on it. Earth course not everybody welcomes migrants has anybody objected to the work that you do. It is not at all everybody here injuries welcome that we are against racism we condemn race his and so we have illegal immigrants here and they work really injured he is with us we welcome them we support them we respect them the our fellow human beings and we just give them a warm welcome here and they are free to live with us it must take up an enormous amount of your time doing this work what does your family think about it well or in the funeral or in my family extremely understanding all my children are grown up and married and have their own families my 2 sons were actually illegal immigrants and they live in Europe and I think sometimes maybe because I do this my town arrived in Europe safely so maybe it's some sort of compensation if you like or payback Tell me about your sons and their journey did you know about it in advance did you know what they were planning to do with me and. My 2 sons never mentioned the word to me because they know how strongly oppose illegal immigration so they couldn't tell me a word about it one of them left 7 months ago and the other turned arrived in Sicily he left Tunisia 18 months ago and of course because I'm a sailor I'm a fisherman and I taught my sons how to sail so of course they didn't have any problems at sea would you have tried to stop your sons if they'd asked you permission beforehand. About it of course I would have stopped them at the same time it's a bit about the limit because in Africa including my home country here there is not much hope for young people you know they can't see a future and they are. Want to Live they want to marry they want to have a family they want to have a home and they don't seem to be able to see that's possible here without risking their lives or terms it in Marzouk is now running out of space in his cemetery and would like to find a new plot of land he says he would move in next door to continue his work. 'd course I would move right next door to that symmetry if I get a new plot of land which I would like to have 2 rooms a net one for washing and bearing and the other one to do the d.n.a. Testing and also to keep any things that they had on them any moment really any baggage they had held that if their relatives want to look for them one day they can come and find them and find their things left in that room. And. The. Germs in most of the Tunisian fisherman who's burying hundreds of nameless migrants in his hometown you're with Outlook from the b.b.c. World Service and we always love to hear from you we had a great response to a story we shared about Sammy chemist's from South Sudan after his mother died giving birth to twins so he was determined to help other pregnant women in South Sudan he saved money to buy an ultrasound scanner and refused to abandon it even when he was forced to flee his home when things got worse then had to evacuate Uganda I knew very well the machine would help very many people so I thought if I carry the machine to Uganda it will help not only there for G.'s but also people within the community how did you carry it I carried it in my head I walked for almost 4 days before reaching the border it was not all that heavy but in the long distance it is not all that easy and along the way did people ask you what you were carrying on your head no because at that time no one even text interests to ask you what you're taking with you so when we reach the border the. The guys who do the checking they saw this kind and they were asking me about how I got this machine and luckily I came with my certificate from the clinic so I prove that actually this is my machine and they gave me the go ahead without charging anything with him his story made a real impact on to the side and Stein in the USA He wrote to say ironically I was driving back from a pregnancy ultrasound myself when I heard the story and marveled at the level of medical care we often take for granted what a profound and interesting story about an individual who used his own tragedy and the death of his mother to fight for the health of those pregnant women who are vulnerable and often forgotten and Julie says this story touched my heart on a very personal level the guy otherwise never would have known Thank you Nicky Slater wrote he's a real hero and West Gloria boner from Nigeria commented God bless you my son with tears in my eyes while Paul sale says so many should be a candidate for the Nobel Prize you can hear that interview in full and many more by visiting our Web page just search online for b.b.c. 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