CONETTA, Italy: They used to be sleepy hamlets on Italy’s sun-baked Padan Plain. But two years with hundreds of asylum seekers packed into overcrowded centers dubbed “human warehouse” are taking their toll — on both migrants and villagers. “After two years this is (still) a place where human beings are squashed in together, with no hope for the future. “Now I call it a human warehouse. “The local residents should at least be aware of our existence.

Source: Manila Times July 15, 2017 16:30 UTC