This is just disgusting and it looks like it may well actually happen:
Please read this thread:
Review of a new book by journalist Sally Hayden (if you are interested in this she is worth a follow on Twitter):
The Next Mediterranean Migration Crisis Will Be Worse
A new book tells the forgotten story of migrants stranded in Libya amid United Nations incompetence and Western indifference.foreignpolicy.com
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has displaced around 6 million people, yet one silver lining is that refugee-hosting European Union countries have been, by many accounts, “extraordinarily welcoming” to these refugees.
Instead of being indefinitely detained in inhumane detention centers, many of these Ukrainian refugees, who are mostly white Christians, have been able to stay with host families in Europe or hotels and dormitories free of charge.
Even nationalist governments like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s regime have been willing to take in Ukrainian refugees—despite the prime minister saying as recently as December 2021 that “we will not do anything to change the way the border is protected. We won’t change it, and we aren’t going to let anyone in.”
Orban, who has become a hero to the American right and embodies a certain illiberal style of “strongman” leadership, has previously peddled the claim that mass migration poses an existential threat to his country and has caged and starved refugees.
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski was also quick to show his solidarity with Ukrainian refuges, announcing in February that “anyone fleeing from bombs, from Russian rifles, can count on the support of the Polish state,” despite his government having spent hundreds of millions of euros on building a 115-mile border wall to deter Middle Eastern asylum-seekers from entering the country from Belarus a few months earlier.
The contrast between the treatment of Ukrainian refugees and those from African and Middle Eastern countries is stark—one group has been warmly embraced while another has been rebuffed—sometimes at the same time and fleeing across the same border.
At least 23 migrants have died and others were hurt on Friday when a huge crowd tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla, officials from neighbouring Morocco say.
I saw this the other day, forgot about it then remembered and then was reminded again today. Absolutely horrific, and indeed complete silence in the major media outlets both in the UK and abroad:
These people should be put in a very very small boat and dumped in the middle of the ocean.Nine Egyptian people smugglers have been arrested.
I'd hesitate to use the word "mainly" despite the history of illegal pushbacks, having read about the way the ship crew treated passengersIf you read the article it seems to be mainly the fault of the Greek coastguard, and they have form for engaging in illegal 'pushbacks'.
The point is that there are allegations that the Greek Coast Guard pulled this boat towards Italian waters - that they pushed it, so to speak. So far we had only heard this accusation, but last night my colleague, who speaks Arabic, managed to speak to about ten surviving refugees. They have independently reported that this boat was actually towed - not just once, not just twice, but a total of three times. And then the ship rocked and sank.
I just came back from the Malakasa refugee center where 71 survivors of the #pylosshipwreck #Πυλος shipwreck are staying.Three survivors confirmed that the Greek Coast Guard tied a rope to their boat, pull them AND THEN the boat capsized. They told me after the boat capsized, the Coast Guards "took distance" from them and sailed away. They say they stayed what it felt like 2-3 hours on the water until they were rescued. This morning camp authorities didn't allow shipwreck survivors to go out of the fenced camp. "It feels like a prison" they told me. Camp authorities tried to prevent me from speaking to survivors, asking me to stay away of the fence.
VeryI wonder how often stuff like this happens and there are just no survivors at all and we never even hear about it