News: Thrown to the sharks: Migrants rescued during
treacherous crossing claim body was tossed overboard - as it emerges more than
400 died when another boat capsized on way from Libya to Europe
Link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038913/Hundreds-migrants-die-trying-reach-Europe-Libya-Boat-carrying-550-people-capsizes-victim-board-vessel-thrown-sharks.html#ixzz3XmNu40bn
Date: April 15-2015
The tragedy of
immigrants from Africa and Middle East came to unspeakable ends last week; 400
of them drowned when the boat they were traveling from Libya capsized halfway.
The figure is an addition to a series of fatal incidents that occurred so far
this year, according to representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR), the situation has killed 900 people[i].
With the economic decline, war, persecution, and unemployment situation of more
than a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East, increased northward
migration has baffled European authorities, struggling to articulate a coherent
policy against human trafficking.
Italy has taken
the worst part of this migratory wave, which this week acquired a worrying
aspect, as survivors of one of the boats reported that Muslim immigrants pushed
overboard 12 fellow Libyans for being Christians[ii].
Experts say these facts, besides representing a clear humanitarian crisis, are
an opportunity for jihadism in this part of the world to sneak into Europe,
worsening security situations and Islamophobia remaining in the Old Continent.
This tragedy
exposes the immigration situation worldwide and the lack of opportunities of
citizens. Immigration destabilize the global economy and threatens society. How
are we acting against immigration? Where is the control and security for
citizens?
With this article
I want open the debate to discuss immigration and emphasize it as a global
crisis.
These are the most
serious wrecks of boats with immigrants occurred in the Mediterranean over the
last twenty years as reported by the Hispanic News network Univision:
“-
26-December-1996: Some 280 migrants die in a shipwreck south of the Italian
island of Sicily.
- 07-March-2002:
More than 50 Kurdish immigrants disappear in a shipwreck near Sicily.
- 20-June-2003: 50
dead and 159 missing in a sinking boat with immigrants by Tunisia.
- 31-March-2009:
At least 214 migrants disappeared in a shipwreck in Libyan waters.
- 14-March-2011: Between
40 and 60 migrants drown and capsized as they were traveling near the coast of
Tunisia.
- 22 to
27-Mar-2011: Two boats disappear in which 335 and 160 migrants traveled trying
to reach the shores of Italy.
- 29 to
30-Mar-2011: The British newspaper The Guardian reported the deaths of 61 migrants
in the Mediterranean, due to ignoring European NATO units and their cries for help,
in an incident that denied NATO.
- 06-April-2011:
250 people missing capsized barge over 300 immigrants near the island of
Lampedusa.
- 06-May-2011: An
overloaded boat disappears off the coast of Libya, with some 600 immigrants,
only 130 survived.
- 02-June-2011: Between
200 and 270 migrants disappear fleeing the conflict in Libya near the coast of
Tunisia.
- 09-July-2012: 54
migrants die dehydrated as they left Libya for Italy.
- 03-October-2013:
360 immigrants die sinking barge on their way to Lampedusa.
- 11-October-2013:
50 immigrants capsized near Lampedusa.
- 11-May-2014:
Recovered bodies of at least 40 migrants off the coast of the town of Al
Garbuli in Libya.
- 02-July-2014 -
75 migrants missing after the sinking of a boat near the coast of Italy.
- 24-August-2014:
The Italian Navy found the bodies of 18 migrants in a rubber dinghy drifting
south of Lampedusa.
- 26-August-2014:
The Navy Military Italian immigrants found 24 bodies south of the coast of the
Italian island of Lampedusa.
- 31-August-2014:
The Tunisian Maritime Guard recovered 41 bodies of immigrants drowned off the
coast of the southern city of Ben Guerdan.
-
05-December-2014: The Italian Coast Guard recovered the bodies of 18 migrants
in an inflatable boat they were traveling and 76 others in the Sicilian
Channel.
-
11-February-2015: At least 300 migrants die in recent days in the Sicilian
Channel, 29 of them from hypothermia and the rest wrecked barge in traveling
from Libya.
- 13-April-2015:
400 immigrants disappear when their boat shipwrecked off the coast of Libya.[iii]”
Citizens must take
control measures and require their government a warranty of overall development
as individuals, with requesting provided health, housing, education and a
decent quality of life.
[i] UNHCR -
New Mediterranean boat tragedy may be biggest ever, urgent action is needed
now. (2015, April 19). Retrieved April 19, 2015, from http://www.unhcr.org/5533c2406.html
[ii]
Hundreds feared drowned in Mediterranean migrant tragedy. (2015, April 19).
Retrieved April 19, 2015, from
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/world/hundreds-feared-drowned-in-mediterranean-migrant-tragedy/
[iii] Nueva
tragedia en el Mediterráneo: Se hunde barco y hay al menos 700 desaparecidos.
(2015, April 19). Retrieved April 19, 2015, from
http://noticias.univision.com/article/2307909/2015-04-19/mundo/noticias/nueva-tragedia-en-el-mediterraneo-se-hunde-barco-y-hay-al-menos-700-desaparecidos
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