Privatized Pushbacks: How the EU and Libya Use Merchant Ships to Block Migrant Boats
Persoonlijk vind ik het goed dat smokkelaars worden tegengehouden. Grof geld verdienen aan mensen laten verdrinken. De site waar dit artikel van komt denkt precies het tegenovergestelde. Ik ben een voorstander van alle kanten lezen. Reporting by Patrick Kingsley, New York Times: “[O]ne day a few months ago the Libyan Coast Guard ordered [a German merchant ship] to divert course, rescue 68 migrants in distress in the Mediterranean and return them to Libya, which is embroiled in civil war. The request, which the [merchant ship] was required to honor, was at least the third time that day, Jan. 11, that the Libyans had called on a merchant ship to assist migrants. The Libyans could easily have alerted a nearby rescue ship run by a Spanish charity. The reason they did not goes to the core of how the European authorities have found a new way to thwart desperate African migrants trying to reach their shores from across the Mediterranean. And some maritime lawyers think the...