Refugee crisis. Something on the scale of the Marshall plan required?

[teqniq]

As has been observed by others. Plenty or resources and media exposure for a missing sub with some millionaires on board. Little exposure or resources devoted to this disaster.

 

[teqniq]

This is just fucking awful (thread):



She goes on to say further down that the survivors are being kept locked up and the press are being told to stay away.

more here:

https://syriadirect.org/three-syrian-survivors-counter-greek-authorities-pylos-shipwreck-narrative-they-tied-a-rope-we-capsized-they-sailed-away/

 

[teqniq]

The Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story | Arwa Mahdawi

Last week’s shipwreck in Greece is one of the worst tragedies there has ever been on the Mediterranean Sea. The coverage it received has been scant

www.theguardian.com

 

[Yossarian]

A look at events leading up to the sinking, and some grim accounts from survivors

The Greek authorities have repeatedly said that the Adriana was sailing to Italy, and that the migrants did not want to be rescued. But satellite imagery and tracking data obtained by The New York Times show definitively that the Adriana was drifting in a loop for its last six and a half hours. And in sworn testimony, survivors described passengers on the ship’s upper decks calling for help and even trying to jump aboard a commercial tanker that had stopped to provide drinking water.

Many of the passengers, at least 350, came from Pakistan, the Pakistani government said. Most were in the lower decks and the ship’s hold. Of them, 12 survived. The women and young children went down with the ship.

https://archive.fo/Me9Ej

 

[teqniq]

Saw this as well. Survivors confirming that it was the Geek coastguard who were responsible for capsizing the boat after attaching a rope to it:

Greece migrant tragedy: coastguard rope capsized boat, survivor accounts say

Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out fishing trawler. They recounted hellish conditions above and below deck, with no food or water.

www.reuters.com

 

[teqniq]

More confirmation from survivors:

Survivors: ‘Greek coastguard was next to us when boat capsized’

Two Syrian refugees recall their harrowing journey and pin blame on the coastguard for the devastating shipwreck.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[teqniq]

More missing, possibly more than 300:

Migrant boat from Senegal carrying 200 people missing off Canary Islands

The aid group Walking Borders says many children are on board the missing boat, which departed from Senegal.

www.bbc.com

 

[teqniq]

Instead of providing humaitarian assisance fortess Europe is providing surveillance technology to countries such as Senegal and Frortex has a presence there:

How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa

The European Union is militarizing Africa's internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.

inthesetimes.com

 

[yield]

Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Lampedusa
09/08/23

A group of four people who survived the disaster told rescuers that they were on a boat that had set off from Sfax in Tunisia and sank on its way to Italy.

The four survivors, originally from the Ivory Coast and Guinea, reached Lampedusa on Wednesday.

More than 1,800 people have lost their lives so far this year in the crossing from North Africa to Europe.

 

[Dystopiary]

At least 6 people have died after a boat trying to cross the English Channel collapsed.

More than 50 people have been rescued.

Franck Dhersin, the mayor of Téteghem, near Dunkirk, said a vast rescue operation was launched at about 6am (5am BST) as dozens of boats tried to make the crossing at the same time.

“Several of the boats were facing serious difficulties,” he said.

“Near Sangatte they unfortunately found dead bodies.”

The maritime prefecture confirmed that there had been at least six deaths and said search and rescue operations were ongoing.

Steve Smith of Care4Calais has said the incident was an “appalling and preventable tragedy.”

“Those who died,” he said, “were not just statistics, but individual people...

“This terrible loss of life demonstrates yet again the need for a system of safe passage to the UK for refugees. This would enable them to apply for asylum while in France, and then to travel safely to the UK without risking their lives in small boats. It would put the people smugglers out of business overnight. We have already seen such a system work for Ukrainian refugees. There is no reason it should not be more widely available.”

At least six dead and 50 rescued after small boat trying to cross Channel capsizes

 

[teqniq]

No solution whatsoever:

EU members seek UK ‘Rwanda model’ to fix asylum crisis

 

[MickiQ]

Considering that the UK's deal with Rwanda has cost £180m so far and resulted in the sending of 0 migrants there, not sure why anyone thinks it might be a good idea tbh

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Considering that the UK's deal with Rwanda has cost £180m so far and resulted in the sending of 0 migrants there, not sure why anyone thinks it might be a good idea tbh

winning votes not getting results sorry I Felt i had to point it out

 

[MickiQ]

winning votes not getting results sorry I Felt i had to point it out

Don't think it has tbh, I think the idea is very popular but unless they live near the beaches of Kent or one of the hotels being used to house asylum seekers then this actually has little to no impact on people's daily lives. You can watch the telly or read the papers and get all wound up about it but the next day you still have to go to work, pay your rent or mortgage and buy groceries. And every time someone does that it offers proof of just how badly the party of economic stability and fiscal responsibility has screwed the economy up. A bit of dogwhistling about Stop The Boats isn't going to placate people's anger when they get to the supermarket till and are reminded just how far their money does not go these days.
Beside despite some desperate mudslinging by the Tory Party, I think most voters now realise that whilst they might abandon the Rwanda policy as a failure (not for any moral reasons), the Labour Party is not going to open the floodgates and is unlikely to be any more refugee friendly than the Tories.

 

[Dystopiary]

61 people have died off the coast of Libya after the boat carrying them to Europe capsized.

The UN's International Organization for Migration said in a statement the boat was carrying 86 migrants when strong waves swamped it off the town of Zuwara on Libya’s western coast.

It said that 61 migrants, including women and children, had drowned, citing survivors of the “dramatic shipwreck”.

Libya has in recent years emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.

The North African nation has plunged into chaos following a Nato-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

The country is a major launching point for migrants trying to reach the European shores through the deadly central Mediterranean.

RIP every single person who lost their life.

The survivors must have gone through hell too. This shouldn't be happening.

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-12-17/over-60-people-drown-in-migrant-boat-off-libya-on-way-to-europe

 

[yield]

In 2024, Europe to hunt for new partners to offload asylum seekers
aljazeera. 3 Jan 2024
From Ghana to Georgia, Rwanda to Albania, the EU is looking for nations that will hold vulnerable people on its behalf.

Yet as 2024 begins, activists and experts told Al Jazeera that 2023 has seen Europe reach for ever more drastic solutions to curb NGO search and rescue operations and outsource its border management to other nations.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated at least 2,571 people died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean – one of the deadliest years ever. Since 2014, the United Nations agency has counted at least 28,320 men, women and children who lost their lives trying to reach Europe.

“What is new is the popularity of the idea that you can externalise asylum processing,” said Camille Le Coz, associate director for Europe at the Migration Policy Institute. “That’s something we’re likely going to see more of moving forward despite shaky legal grounds.”

 

[moochedit]

BBC News - Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

More than 40 people are alleged to have died as a result of Greek coastguard actions, BBC analysis reveals.

www.bbc.com

 

[zahir]

Review of the BBC report. This is getting reactions in Greek media as well so maybe it will have some effect.

Dead Calm: Killing in the Med? review – devastating landmark TV that demands answers

This gut-punch documentary about the deaths of more than 500 asylum seekers – and the masked men rounding up refugees – makes a specific, horrific allegation. There should be severe consequences

www.theguardian.com

On iplayer:

Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?

Are masked men responsible for people dying as they try to cross the Mediterranean? This film reveals the dark secret hidden behind the beauty of Greece’s holiday islands.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[zahir]

Greek opposition urges investigation after BBC migrant deaths report

A BBC investigation found the coastguard had caused dozens of deaths over three years, according to witnesses.

ca.news.yahoo.com

Syriza's immigration policy chief said: "We demand in-depth investigation, we demand answers, we demand accountability, and the reason we do it is this.
"We care about all human life, and we cannot get used to the loss of human life."
Giorgos Psychogios told the BBC his centre-left party had called for accountability over coastguard incidents for years, after many reports from international institutions and organisations.
He accused the government of calling his party "anti-Greek", "Erdogan agents" and "provocateurs" for asking those questions.