Can we ever stop inhuman acts? The Greek coastguard has been accused of deliberately drowning migrants. It is making some lose their belief in the good of humanity.
Outcry over migrants ‘thrown into the sea’
Small boats: "Unauthorised arrivals by sea" into Greece peaked at 856,723 in 2015. Glossary
Mediterranean - A sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean. It has the shores of Europe on one and the shores of north Africa on the other, as well as shoreline in Asia.
Migrants - People who are living in a different country to the one they were born in.
Middle East - The lands around the east of the Mediterranean Sea and Arabia.
BBC - The British Broadcasting Corporation is the UK's national broadcaster.
Coastguard - An organisation that monitors coastal waters to help ships in danger and prevent smuggling.
Human rights - The basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. They apply regardless of where you are from, what you believe or how you choose to live your life. Some have called for animals and even natural phenomena like rivers to have some form of human rights.
Cruel - Causing pain or suffering. Even though dolphins play together in the wild, animal rights supporters argue that it is unfair to train them to play when we make them do things.
Sigmund Freud - An Austrian psychoanalyst who was one of the world’s foremost authorities on psychology in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Although his ideas have been discredited in the scientific community, he remains influential for literary scholars.
Instincts - The way people or animals naturally react to something, without thinking about it.
Hannah Arendt - A Jewish German political philosopher who escaped a concentration camp and fled to America. She wrote extensively about Nazism.
Holocaust - The murder of six million Jewish people in Europe by Nazi Germany. Members of other minority groups were also killed.
Nazi - A German political party of the twentieth century, led by Adolf Hitler. The Nazis controlled Germany from the early 1930s until the end of World War II.
Adolf Eichmann - The senior Nazi in charge of organising the deportation of Jews to extermination camps during World War Two. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1961.
Banality - Something that is boring or unexciting.