What characterizes today?

1.Today marks the 18th anniversary of the Izbica massacre, when paramilitary forces killed and massacred 150 civilians of various ages.
2.To fleeing poverty and tragedy of 1997 in the hope that it will become part of the world where they will work, on 28 March 1997 from the coast of Vlora to Italy's shores set off 150 people. Lured by traffickers they set off in a boat they were dead.