Since March, at least 1,072 asylum seekers have been dropped at sea by Greek officials in at least 31 separate expulsions, according to an analysis of evidence by The New York Times from three independent watchdogs, two academic researchers and the Turkish Coast Guard. The Times interviewed survivors from five of those episodes and reviewed photographic or video evidence from all 31.
“It was very inhumane,” said Najma al-Khatib, a 50-year-old Syrian teacher, who says masked Greek officials took her and 22 others, including two babies, under cover of darkness from a detention center on the island of Rhodes on July 26 and abandoned them in a rudderless, motorless life raft before they were rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard.
“I left Syria for fear of bombing — but when this happened, I wished I’d died under a bomb,” she told The Times.
It's fascinating how German chuds, who will never tire to call any leftist an apologist for the "wall-building socialist regime that murdered 800 people at the inner-German border" just shrug off the fact that an estimated 24,000 people have died at the outer EU borders. In fact, they don't see anything wrong with calling the same leftists out on "open-border ideology" one sentence later.
I've dug up the source for my claim and found out it's from 2015. Thanks for finding a more recent and detailed article.
I just saw where the difference comes from, your sauce counts from 2000 onwards and the one the Guardian reported on goes back to 1993.
There ya go: https://katapult-magazin.de/en/artikel/artikel/fulltext/no-deaths-in-the-mediterranean-sea/
This is disgusting - by the way, Australia has been doing literally this exact thing for seven years and counting, just dragging boats back to sea and calling it a day. We’ve been the world’s proving ground for treating refugees like shite for decades now.
It is fairly rare to even get a glimpse at this nowadays, because Europe does everything it can to keep this thing dark, like trying to prosecute civilian rescue efforts or grounding civilian airplanes trying to spot from the skies.
Another thing Europe now loves to do is to just outsource it to the other side of the Mediterranean like the failed state of Libya, great partners of the EU in keeping those pesky migrants out of Europe. That they are held like slaves in Libya, if they don't die at sea or in the desert, doesn't concern us very much.Yeh, our government has been pulling the same shit. Funny how they claim to be doing the right thing, yet are clearly self aware enough to know that if the public found out was truly happening there’d be an outcry.
I fear that too, like if we don't move away from the individualistic capitalist organization of society we will see fascism in Europe again, big time.
Actually, tbf, controversial has people calling out the upvotes comments.
Best is a dumpster fire.
Fitting that it escalates very quickly to a fight over which megacorp is better. :this-is-fine:
exactly, they are more passionate arguing over which 2 shitty operating systems are better than they are about people literally being left to die
Germany does the same, for example: They sent people, they deem to be from Serbia if they were born in former Yugoslavia(even if born in the ie Croatian part), who have lived almost their whole lives in Germany to Serbia with no connection to the country, without a passport and nothing but whatever they can carry on them.
Many of them become homeless, because without proper documentation you can't rent an apartment, can't create a bank account, often not even hostels will accept them.
Countries like Serbia don't want to do much about it because they hope to become EU members at some point.
It is an absolute horror, an absolute tragedy. For those interested this is a very good documentary(some parts only in German) on the issue.
Imagine living in the world, and waking up after your death on fire for eternity for fucking before marriage.
God damn.. shit is bleak.
