SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
A major rescue operation is under way in the Mediterranean after as many as 700 migrants are feared to have drowned just outside Libyan waters, in what could prove to be the worst disaster yet involving migrants being smuggled to Europe. Italian coastguards have retrieved 28 survivors so far and about 20 bodies, according to the interior ministry, after the boat went down overnight about 60 miles (96km) off the Libyan coast and 120 miles (193km) south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. With this at least 1,500 migrants have died so far in 2015 while on route to Europe – at least 30 times higher than last year’s equivalent figure, which was itself a record. It comes just days after 400 others drowned last week in a similar incident. Last week, a dinghy carrying migrants sank; 41 drowned. On April 12, 400 people perished when their vessel capsized. The latest exodus of migrants fleeing across the Mediterranean has largely been triggered by the turmoil in Libya, but also includes people from Syria and sub-Saharan countries. In September 2014, an estimated 500 migrants drowned after traffickers deliberately rammed the boat they were travelling in, in an attempt to force them onto a smaller vessel.
Unfortunately most of the European countries, who claim to be champion of human rights in other parts of the world, are least interested about the fate of the migrants as they do not take part in rescue mission and never accept any onedesperate to seek shelter. Italy has been doing most of the rescue work but it is now voicing concern due to funding and exasperation that it was shouldering the burden of responsibility alone. We may say that many people from South Asia including Pakistan have been venturing such dangerous journeys as they are attracted by drug traffickers. We hope the authorities would further tighten the controls to save poor people from undertaking deadly journeys to the Seas that the world witnessed on Sunday.
These migrants mostly belong to troubled countries most often. They migrate due to civil war within in the country, fear of life, recession, famine or other social factors that post threat to their lives. Therefore it is responsibility of the world to chalk out a law to protect them for their safe returns of their countries or to their destination.
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No rescue: Migrants do not belong to humanity
SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
A major rescue operation is under way in the Mediterranean after as many as 700 migrants are feared to have drowned just outside Libyan waters, in what could prove to be the worst disaster yet involving migrants being smuggled to Europe. Italian coastguards have retrieved 28 survivors so far and about 20 bodies, according to the interior ministry, after the boat went down overnight about 60 miles (96km) off the Libyan coast and 120 miles (193km) south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. With this at least 1,500 migrants have died so far in 2015 while on route to Europe – at least 30 times higher than last year’s equivalent figure, which was itself a record. It comes just days after 400 others drowned last week in a similar incident. Last week, a dinghy carrying migrants sank; 41 drowned. On April 12, 400 people perished when their vessel capsized. The latest exodus of migrants fleeing across the Mediterranean has largely been triggered by the turmoil in Libya, but also includes people from Syria and sub-Saharan countries. In September 2014, an estimated 500 migrants drowned after traffickers deliberately rammed the boat they were travelling in, in an attempt to force them onto a smaller vessel.
Unfortunately most of the European countries, who claim to be champion of human rights in other parts of the world, are least interested about the fate of the migrants as they do not take part in rescue mission and never accept any onedesperate to seek shelter. Italy has been doing most of the rescue work but it is now voicing concern due to funding and exasperation that it was shouldering the burden of responsibility alone. We may say that many people from South Asia including Pakistan have been venturing such dangerous journeys as they are attracted by drug traffickers. We hope the authorities would further tighten the controls to save poor people from undertaking deadly journeys to the Seas that the world witnessed on Sunday.
These migrants mostly belong to troubled countries most often. They migrate due to civil war within in the country, fear of life, recession, famine or other social factors that post threat to their lives. Therefore it is responsibility of the world to chalk out a law to protect them for their safe returns of their countries or to their destination.
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