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Ocean Viking ship rescues nearly 200 migrants off Libya
[AlAhram] According to the International Organization for Migration, at least 1,146 people have died at sea trying to reach Europa  ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...during the first half of 2021 The Ocean Viking on Saturday rescued 196 It first picked up 57 people in an inflatable dinghy struggling in international waters off the North African country, SOS Mediterranee said. In the afternoon, the ship's crew carried out two additional rescues in the same area, plucking 54 people from a dinghy and 64 others from a wooden vessel. In their latest operation, they saved 21 people from a wooden vessel. The total rescued included at least two pregnant women and 33 minors, 22 of them unaccompanied. SOS Mediterranee says it has rescued more than 30,000 people since February 2016, first with the ship Aquarius, then with Ocean Viking. SOS Mediterranee accuses European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... governments of neglecting coordinated search-and-rescue action to discourage Libyan authorities are also accused of forcibly returning intercepted ships to Libya, even when they are in European waters. A UN Human Rights Office report in late May urged Libya and the EU to overhaul their rescue operations, saying existing policies "fail to prioritise the lives, safety and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... " of people attempting to cross from Africa. Related: Ocean Viking: 2021-07-05 132 Migrants Rescued Off Libyan Coast Ocean Viking: 2021-05-02 Over 800 migrants rescued at sea head to Italy Ocean Viking: 2021-04-30 Coastguard Rescues 108 Migrants Off Libya Posted by: trailing wife 2021-08-01 |
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