r/socialism • u/HikmetLeGuin • 18h ago

More Than 10,000 Asylum Seekers Have Died at Sea Attempting to Reach Spain in 2024

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/27/headlines/more_than_10_000_asylum_seekers_have_died_at_sea_attempting_to_reach_spain_in_2024
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u/chi_minhs_hoe 14h ago

Every one of those people had emotions, hopes and dreams just like you.

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u/sidesplitGameDev 6h ago

And the coast guards just sit and watch them drown. Time and again , it's actually sickening.

A rich fucker is possibly missing on his yacht and countries send their best experts to help at the drop of the hat but when hundreds are literally drowning they do nothing.

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u/HikmetLeGuin 5h ago

Very true. And sometimes it's even worse than sitting and watching them drown:

"A new BBC investigation reveals evidence of the Greek coastguard abducting and abandoning asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea, where thousands have died, mostly from Africa and the Middle East, as they attempt to reach Europe. Dead Calm: Killing in the Med? finds the Greek coastguard caused the deaths of as many as 43 migrants in the Mediterranean over a period of three years — including nine asylum seekers who had reached Greek soil but were taken by the Greek coastguard back out to the sea and then thrown overboard."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/12/dead_calm