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Mediterranean 'by far world's deadliest border' for migrants: IOM

 

Migrants on a dinghy are rescued by "Save the Children" NGO crew from the ship Vos Hestia in the Mediterranean sea off Libya coast, June 17, 2017. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/Files

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 33,000 migrants have died at sea trying to reach European shores since 2000, making the Mediterranean "by far the world's deadliest border", the United Nations migration agency said on Friday.

 

After record arrivals from 2014 to 2016, the European Union's deal with Turkey to stop arrivals to Greece and blocks on migrants inside Libya and off its coast have greatly reduced the flow, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

 

Professor Philippe Fargues of the European University Institute in Florence, author of the report, said the figures probably underestimated the actual scale of the human tragedy.

 

"The report states that at least 33,761 migrants were reported to have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean between the year 2000 to 2017. This number is as of June 30," IOM's Jorge Galindo told a Geneva news briefing.

 

"It concludes that Europe's Mediterranean border is by far the world's deadliest," he said.

 

So far this year some 161,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe by sea, about 75 percent of them landing in Italy with the rest in Greece, Cyprus and Spain, according to IOM figures. Nearly 3,000 others are dead or missing, it said.

 

"Shutting the shorter and less dangerous routes can open longer and more dangerous routes, thus increasing the likelihood of dying at sea," Fargues said.

 

The report said: "Cooperation with Turkey to stem irregular flows is now being replicated with Libya, the main country of departure of migrants smuggled along the central route; however, such an approach is not only morally reprehensible but likely to be unsuccessful, given the context of extremely poor governance, instability and political fragmentation in Libya."

 

Though sea arrivals to Italy are down almost a third this year, this week there was a surge in rescues and attempted crossings.

 

On Friday, Libya's EU-backed coastguard intercepted more than 600 mainly sub-Saharan African migrants, including many women and children, from a total of five boats that had left from the coast east of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, coast guard officials said.

 

On Wednesday and Thursday, Italy's coast guard said some 1,600 migrants were rescued from nearly 20 vessels in the central Mediterranean.

 

Libya's U.N.-backed government said on Thursday it was investigating reports of African migrants being sold as slaves and promised to bring the perpetrators to justice.

 

Footage broadcast by CNN appearing to show African migrants being traded in Libya sparked an international outcry and protests in Europe and Africa.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-11-25

[giddyup]

Stay safe, stay at home.

[Guest]

The refugees coming from Africa are mostly young men trying to get better life in Europe. 

These young men have abused a lot of their own people to get a place on the boats, which are run by another abusers. If and when the boat sinks, it's risk which failed to do the promise they were hoping for. 

 

Each of EU country have had a great deal of problems with these boys from Somalia. I think it's fair to send them back. 

If the boat, filled with Somali 'refugees' sunk, it's not such a big deal. 

Cruel or not, we better secure our way of living. 

[taipan1949]

17 hours ago, giddyup said:

Stay safe, stay at home.

They are all like lemmings, one lemming told another and soon you have a stampede even though they no they are going to fall into the ocean. The bleeding hearts in those "rescue" boats should have their ships sunk, they are just holding a carrot out to a hungry donkey with no brains.

[taipan1949]

12 hours ago, oilinki said:

The refugees coming from Africa are mostly young men trying to get better life in Europe. 

These young men have abused a lot of their own people to get a place on the boats, which are run by another abusers. If and when the boat sinks, it's risk which failed to do the promise they were hoping for. 

 

Each of EU country have had a great deal of problems with these boys from Somalia. I think it's fair to send them back. 

If the boat, filled with Somali 'refugees' sunk, it's not such a big deal. 

Cruel or not, we better secure our way of living. 

Somali is becoming synonymous with drugs, rape, murder etc. Look at the Somali "cop" who shot an Australian woman in the States and the gutless Americans are still doing nothing about him. Anyone else would be behind bars looking forward to a murder conviction

[Rimmer]

A nasty troll post has been removed

[baboon]

It goes without saying that is is highly unfortunate that people seeking a better life pay for that aspiration with their own lives. However what does this migration agency want from us - shall we simply tarmac over the Mediterranean? Abolish the nation state? It is easy to criticise, but not so easy to come up with equitable solutions. It isn't like many European countries aren't up sh!t creek themselves, financially. 

[thaibeachlovers]

Short answer is that as long as Europe continues to allow them to enter and stay they will continue to try. Sink all the boats and they'll use a bamboo pole if they think a boat will pick them up.

Why are they so desperate to get to Europe? IMO because they have so overpopulated their own country that there are no jobs, no prospects and no hope there, plus their political system is so dire that there is no future there. 

Either Europe goes the Australian way ( my solution ) or they get a great deal faster at repatriating economic immigrants, so the chance of staying reduces to nil, but that would end up costing billions more than now.

Edited November 26, 2017 by thaibeachlovers

[the guest]

Do as they do in Australia, ban anyone coming by sea, and put them on an Island in Europe, Greenland is has a lot of space. 

 

As a result of Australia's policy, not 1 person has died attempting to go by sea. In Europe, many have.

[Sir Dude]

They should stay and sort out their own country's problems and not just run away in a cowardly way paying thousands of $ for the trip and saying "I have more hope here" yadda yadda yadda etc. (refugees my backside). European countries have been through an aweful lot to have things as they are and have paid for it dearly over a long period of time and if it went south again would likely rise up again and overthrow any large threat (hopefully). Secondly, most migrants will probably be bitterly disappointed with their existence in Europe now and attitudes are hardening...even Merkel is struggling to form a government now in the not so long ago bedrock of Europe country. Brexit too was pretty much over border control but it looks like the needs of corporatism are deciding everything now regarding that.

 

The only way for Europe to go, to avoid the implosion of society and retain it's identity and values, is to adopt the Aussie version. Some migration is needed in most countries but it needs to be the right type of migration of people with something to offer and that are willing to integrate into the ways of the country being entered. Take someone like myself in Thailand...works, pays taxes, right visa etc., contributes to society, doesn't commit crime, learns the language, marries a local woman, buys houses/cars, doesn't send remittances out the country, brings in foreign currency, volunteers for community service locally etc. etc. etc.. That's the kind of migration that is needed everywhere instead of this entitle "I'm alive and the world owes me for it" rubbish you hear now all the time. Europe cannot simply accept everyone and solve the world's humanity issues...pfft.   

 

Personally, I have no idea why all these Muslim migrants from Africa/Afghanistan etc. want to live in the land of the infidel and be surrounded by such a torturous environment that is an affront to their beliefs that belong in the dark ages (seem like a bunch of hypocrites really). Certainly some irony that they all run blubbing to the West as you'd of thought that they would be happier in Iran, Saudi, Malaysia or some such other "Islamic paradise." And it's not going to get better for them due to the winds of political change  blowing coldly across the continent as European neo-liberalism is increasingly being looked on as having run it's course in many peoples' view and opposition to it is growing. This part of history from the end of the cold war to, say, 2050 could easily end up being judged very harshly by the historians of the future.  

Edited November 26, 2017 by Sir Dude
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