Posted on 09/15/2014 2:59:11 PM PDT by Thistooshallpass9
More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the last week, bringing the death toll this year to almost 3,000, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.
In the worst incident, as many as 500 migrants are believed to have died after traffickers rammed their ship off Malta's coast last week, an event that only came to light this weekend in testimony from two of nine survivors.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
500 invaders and soon to be illegal aliens and squatters drowned at sea. It’s difficult to care about this incident.
How Christian of you.
So i take it “trafficers” are human trafficers and they rammed the boat, because they saw it as competition?
I wonder how many of those are Christians trying to escape the bloodbath by Islam in those places.
Lots of unanswered in this article.
(Just like for the last 54 years.)
Your compassion is noted. Through the luck of the draw you were fortunate enough to be born in a civilized part of the world. Others weren’t so lucky.
The good intentions of the open borders folks is paving the road to hell for these refugees. Maybe if all of the countries of the world got together and stated that borders were to be respected and those crossing them illegally would be immediately sent home tragedies such as this could be avoided.
Minor delay in the repopulation plans for Europe...
sorry to hear that; in other news today, a Cyclone is speeding towards the Baja.....
Absolutely.
Some years back, I don’t know if it was Silvio Berlesconni but one Italian leader said the Italian Navy should just sink these ships and the migrants on them.
They just need more money. That’ll solve the problem.
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