Saying the world is fast being devoured by a seemingly endless spate of violence and savageries do not sound exaggerating. In the present world, the weak and the poor suffer in silence; the stronger ones vulgarly flaunt their power and might. It's part of the universal rule. But this trait of human nature has for some time been holding sway over the largely neutral mankind, be it a highly developed and so-called enlightened society or the ever-struggling ones.
The optimists never lose their trust in the glow of humanity. To them, man never is a doomed creature. In spite of the scourges gripping societies from all sides, people are there who will be found beside the persecuted or the vanquished. Those are not left in the lurch in times of woes. No matter how thick the darkness is lights keep blinking somewhere. All this has to do with is the never-dying humanity in man. Maybe, this is why in these dreadful times of self-spun cocoons and insouciance, a few people, or communities, commit themselves to selfless service for others. Great instances of this selflessness have emerged in the Mediterranean rescue operations involving refugees fleeing their violence- and war-torn countries. They are from the Middle East, northern Africa and western Asia. The people or the organisations coming to their rescue after a boat-sink or on being left by human traffickers at mid-sea are from different lands. They belong to the greater Europe, including Germany and the Nordic countries, the dream destinations of the refugees. The rescued people have no kinship with them in the contexts of culture, values or social mores. Yet thousands of the constantly battered and near-dead people are picked up, given food and clothes and taken to shelters. Not long ago, most of them were allowed to stay in the European countries free of the shadows of death and violence.
The undying virtue of humanity was found at play that allayed the unfounded fears of trouble centring the aliens in the host countries. Saner people nurturing the rare quality of humanity are omnipresent. In the fraught global scenario created by those soon to-be-at-the-helm of powerful states, the Good Samaritans must make their presence vocal. It's these people with conscience --- be they in the USA or in a European country, who can help bring a change to the chauvinistic policies of powerful states.
In the fast deteriorating socio-economic plight of the trouble-torn regions, the exodus of afflicted humanity will go on. The preferred destinations of people deserting their lands on being hounded by hunger and hostilities will be the developed and apparently peaceful countries. It has been happening repeatedly in world history. Examples include the aftermaths of the Second World War and the Vietnam War. Browbeating the helpless refuge-seekers could not prevent their streams. Chauvinism and veiled xenophobia were at play in the Western developed countries even in the late 1940s and mid-1970s. But people advocating these attitudes were overpowered by the saner segments in government and the civil societies. In the event of a flare-up of anti-immigrant rhetoric in any mighty country, e.g. the USA, in the near future, the baffled humanity may have no immediate way out before it. Like in the Europe of 2015, the jittery immigration-seekers may have to desperately wait for the Good Samaritans.
Despite being an essentially poor country, Bangladesh has been accommodating Rohingya refugees since the early 1990s. There are nearly a dozen middle- and low-income countries today that host refugees displaced by regional conflicts. Lately, there have been signs in Myanmar for yet another onrush of Rohingyas into Bangladesh. Given the economic condition of the country, it is not supposed to stand up to the pressure of refugees. But Bangladesh in the past took the task upon itself being prompted by the urge to serve a segment of the oppressed mankind.
