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More Murder at the gates of Europe

Tom | 11.05.2008 16:40 | Migration | Repression

Moroccan Border guards,have struck once again , we may remember the shootings in Ceutra and Melilla , While the European Union pays Morocco to guard Europe's Borders the naval patrols they finance last week deliberately sank a dinghy resulting in 36 dead . Once more this is the human cost of our governments' immigration policies . Immigration controls are now murdering people , The UK and International media is almost completely silent



> Moroccan troops 'drowned migrants'
> By Agence France Presse (AFP)
>
> Thursday, May 08, 2008
> MADRID: Moroccan soldiers deliberately sank a boat carrying would-be
> migrants trying to reach Spain, drowning about 30 people, survivors
> of the incident were quoted as saying by a Spanish newspaper
> Wednesday. El Pais quoted "at least five survivors" as saying
> between 29 and 33 migrants, four of them children, drowned off Al-
> Hoceima, northeastern Morocco, on April 28 after the soldiers
> punctured their inflatable boat. A Moroccan security source told AFP
> Monday that 10 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa had drowned when
> three vessels sank off Al-Hoceima on April 28. A Moroccan non-
> governmental organization quoted survivors as saying 36 had died. El
> Pais said the survivors were taken to the border with Algeria, and
> Moroccan authorities have tried to cover up the tragedy. Around 70
> migrants left Morocco at around 3:00 am on April 28 in a bid to
> reach Spain, the newspaper said. Two hours later, they came across a
> Moroccan naval vessel and soldiers approached the migrants in a
> motor launch. "One of the soldiers jabbed a knife into the rubber
> and told us 'now go to Spain if you want,'" El Pais quoted one of
> survivors, identified as Campos, as saying. "We tried to patch it up
> and we continued on with difficulty, but I think that we would have
> made it if they had not returned," said another survivor, Erick O.,
> a Nigerian fisherman who said his wife and 3-year-old daughter were
> among those who drowned. The launch returned and a soldier began
> threatening the migrants with a knife. "We asked them to take us
> back with them to Morocco because, with the boat in the state it
> was, it was almost impossible to continue," said Campos. "We begged
> them to look at our children and babies." A Moroccan officer then
> took the knife and "punctured the boat four times in different
> places," after which it sank in a few seconds. Another Moroccan
> launch came to help, El Pais said. - AFP

Tom

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liberty to the rescue

12.05.2008 11:02

Right now is your chance Liberty. Just what are you going to do about this and all the other criminal acts inflicted by states that are becoming more and more amoral and downright stalinist fascist administrators.Get out or get on with it.

Al Asitis