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To: amorphous

That picture has to be fake. I would really like the source please.


95 posted on 11/02/2015 1:22:44 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy; amorphous

Web address of photo;

http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Libya004.jpg.

LankaWed is out of Sri Lanka. The bread crumb trails I'm reading suggest to me that someone there may have mis-attributed the photo, or possibly used it in speaking of refugee crises in general, and then things have digressed from there? I dunno, I admit I'm guessing, since I couldn't find a story in sidebars that could lead to the photo being posted from there (lankaweb.com)

The ship is real enough, though. It is the VLORA. The refugees are Albanians. The incident occurred in 1991, according to the written info at this two minute youtube video;

Although I cannot attest to fullest authenticity of much of anything at the provided link, be sure to scroll down to comments, to see those made by one there identified as 'Adriko Ko'.

Two comments, right near the top, one posted there a week ago, another six days ago.

97 posted on 11/02/2015 3:26:25 AM PST by BlueDragon (Knights of Googlesterium, at your service...)
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