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Bosonic

(3,746 posts) Tue Apr 14, 2015, 03:00 PM Apr 2015

Up to 400 migrants died in boat capsize off Libya: NGOs

Source: AFP

Rome (AFP) - Up to 400 migrants died after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday, international NGOs said, citing survivors who were saved and brought to Italy.

The Italian coastguard had previously said that they managed to rescue 144 of the people on the capsized vessel, while nine bodies were also recovered

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Up to 400 migrants died in boat capsize off Libya: NGOs (Original Post) Bosonic Apr 2015 OP

Yahoo wasn't clear - there were approx 550 Migrants on the boat JustAnotherGen Apr 2015 #1

Well at least you got rid of Gaddafi, EU Laughing Mirror Apr 2015 #2

The BRIC's and Germany abstained and nobody had the balls to vote no jakeXT Apr 2015 #3

JustAnotherGen

(31,969 posts)

1. Yahoo wasn't clear - there were approx 550 Migrants on the boat

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 03:15 PM

Apr 2015

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/14/us-italy-migrant-shipwreck-idUSKBN0N51Y120150414

The boat, carrying about 550 migrants in total, flipped about 24 hours after leaving the Libyan coast, according to some of the 150 survivors who were rescued and brought to a southern Italian port on Tuesday morning, Save the Children reported.

Before this incident there had already been more than 500 deaths of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Africa this year, up sharply from 47 in the same period of 2014, said the Geneva-based International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

On Monday, 2,851 migrants were saved in rescue operations in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said, adding to at least nine who died and 5,629 who were saved over the weekend.

Italy, which handled the largest number of migrant arrivals in the EU, has become increasingly alarmed about the breakdown of law and order in Libya, which has greatly exacerbated the task of tackling the migrant flows. Libya is home to two rival governments, loosely aligned militia forces and a growing militant Islamist movement.

Laughing Mirror

(4,185 posts)

2. Well at least you got rid of Gaddafi, EU

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 06:34 AM

Apr 2015

Are you happy now?

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

3. The BRIC's and Germany abstained and nobody had the balls to vote no

Reply to Laughing Mirror (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 07:14 AM

Apr 2015

It would be too easy to consider that Germany’s abstention during the vote on Resolution 1973, on Libya, at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was a serious mistake caused by the inexperience of Guido Westerwelle, the young German Minister of Foreign Affairs. Diplomatic cables published lately by Wikileaks confirmed that this was the US impression of the minister. American diplomats outlined a track record of his alleged inconsistencies and incompetence in support of their argument in the Wikileaks cables. In reality, however, the abstention was prompted by major political and economic considerations. Time will demonstrate what the full consequences of that decision will be. However, for now it is possible to analyze the basic reasons behind it, and what might be some of the possible outcomes.

On 17 March, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973, which created the legal framework for the creation of a “no-fly zone” over Libya and demanded an immediate ceasefire and an end to attacks on civilians by armed forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The UN General Secretary said that these attacks might indeed constitute “crimes against humanity”. The Security Council imposed a ban on all flights over the country’s airspace and tightened its existing sanctions on the Gaddafi regime and its supporters.

Ten members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution: the United States, Great Britain, and France, all permanent members of the Security Council, and Bosnia, Colombia, Gabon, Lebanon, Nigeria, Portugal and South Africa, non-permanent members. No country voted against it, but there were five abstentions: Brazil, China, India, Russia, and Germany. The Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has called the Germany’s abstention “an absurd mistake.” So why did Germany, a close supporter of the U.S., refuse to support Resolution 1973? What made the German Foreign Minister, who had praised the desire for freedom among the young people in Tunis and Cairo a month before, suddenly change his tune in the Resolution 1973 vote a month later?

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/22/why-germany-abstained-on-un-resolution-1973-on-libya/

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