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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2019
Libya recovers dozens of bodies of migrants
By SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press
CAIRO — Libya’s coast guard recov-
ered dozens of bodies of Europe-bound
migrants who perished at sea as search
operations continued Friday, a day after
up to 150 people, including women and
children, went missing and were feared
drowned after their boats capsized in the
Mediterranean.
A top U.N. offi cial described Thursday’s
shipwreck as “the worst Mediterranean
tragedy” so far this year.
The Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency
in the Libyan capital said that up to 350
migrants were on board the boats that cap-
sized off the town of Khoms, around 75
miles east of Tripoli.
The migrants include nationals from
Eritrea, Egypt, Sudan and Libya, the agency
said. Libyan offi cials said more than 130
migrants have been rescued since Thursday.
At least a dozen were taken to a hos-
pital in Khoms while the rest were trans-
ferred to different detention centers, includ-
ing Tajoura, located near the front lines of
the fi ghting between rival Libyan factions,
the offi cials said.
The Tajoura detention center was hit by
an airstrike on July 3 that killed more than
50 people and raised new concerns over the
treatment of migrants in Libya.
One of the survivors from Thursday’s
shipwreck, from Eritrea, said his ves-
sel started to capsize after an hour of sail-
ing. Most of the migrants on board were
women, and most of them drowned.
“All of them (who drowned) were ladies
... only two girls rescued themselves,” he
said, speaking on condition of anonymity
for fears for his safety.
The U.N. refugee agency has demanded
that the Tajoura detention center be closed,
but those calls don’t “seem to be heard. This
is putting intentionally the life of these peo-
ple at risk,” Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR’s
special envoy for the Central Mediterra-
AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed
Rescued migrants sit on a coast some 60 miles east of Tripoli, Libya.
nean tweeted Friday.
However, the U.N. migration agency
said later Friday that once they arrived, the
84 migrants were turned back from the cen-
ter and were instead being “released gradu-
ally” into the town of Tajoura.
Separately from the shipwreck, Ayoub
Gassim, a spokesman for Libya’s coast
guard, said it had intercepted three rub-
ber boats off Tripoli on Thursday, carrying
269 Europe-bound migrants, including nine
women and two children.
Amnesty International called on EU
leaders to “show some courage” and
reverse their decision to halt migrant res-
cues in the Mediterranean. The rights group
appealed on European nation to change
their approach to one that “doesn’t con-
demn those who survive to detention in
Libya.”
“People are still risking their lives to
come to Europe,” said Amnesty’s Massimo
Moratti.
The European Union has over the
past years partnered with Libya to pre-
vent migrants from making the dangerous
journey by sea to Europe. Rights groups
say those efforts have left migrants at the
mercy of brutal armed groups or confi ned
in squalid detention centers that lack ade-
quate food and water.
The EU released a statement Friday say-
ing it was deeply saddened by the tragedy
off Libya’s coast and added that “sustain-
able solutions for search and rescue are
urgently needed in the Mediterranean.”
However, it also said “Libya’s current
system of managing irregular migration and
arbitrarily detaining refugees and migrants
has to end.”
U.N.
Secretary-General
Antonio
Guterres reiterated Friday that “Libya is
not a safe country of asylum” and stressed
that “refugees must be treated with dignity
and respect, and in accordance with inter-
national law,” U.N. deputy spokesman Far-
han Haq said.
After the NATO-backed uprising that
toppled and killed longtime ruler Moam-
mar Gadhafi in 2011, Libya became a major
conduit for African migrants and refugees
seeking a better life in Europe. Traffi ck-
ers and armed groups have exploited Lib-
ya’s chaos since his overthrow, and have
been implicated in widespread abuses of
migrants, including torture and abduction
for ransom.
In January, some 117 died or went miss-
ing off Libya’s coast and around 65 people
drowned after their boat sank off the coast
of Tunisia in May.
At least 2,500 migrants have been
detained in centers in and around Tripoli,
where forces loyal to commander Khal-
ifa Hifter are battling an array of militias
loosely aligned with a U.N.-recognized
government.
Hifter’s offensive — an attempt to seize
Tripoli — started in April and has killed
more than 1,000 people, mainly combat-
ants but also civilians, the U.S. said earlier
this month.
The Tripoli-based government has
blamed the Tajoura airstrike on Hifter’s
forces, which have denied responsibility
and accuse government-linked militias of
storing weapons at the facility.
The U.N. refugee agency says 164
migrants died traveling from Libya to
Europe since the start of the year, fewer
than in previous years. But the agency
says the journey is becoming more dan-
gerous for those who attempt it, with one
out of four perishing at sea before reaching
Europe. The U.N.’s death toll of 154 didn’t
include the scores who drowned Thursday.
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