„[…] Die europäische Grenzschutzagentur Frontex soll im Mittelmeer ein dichteres Netz von Patrouillen knüpfen und die wichtigsten Migrationsrouten überwachen.
Ganz verhindern lassen sich Flüchtlingstragödien aber auch damit nicht.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release
Lampedusa und die Folgen: Konkrete Maßnahmen sollen Verlust von Leben im Mittelmeer verhindern und Bewältigung von Migrations- und Asylströmen verbessern
[siehe auch: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO]
http://m.maltatoday.com.mt/newsdetails/news/national/
Delays that could have cost lives in Lampedusa tragedy
Armed Forces of Malta refuses to explain what happened between the time it received 1pm distress call from Rome, and 4pm when military plan located boat in distress on 11 October Lampedusa shipwreck
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http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/
Armée libyenne : dans l’urgence de se reconstruire
Par Laurent Touchard
Laurent Touchard travaille depuis de nombreuses années sur le terrorisme et l’histoire militaire. Il a collaboré à plusieurs ouvrages et certains de ses travaux sont utilisés par l’université Johns-Hopkins, aux États-Unis. Après avoir évoquer dans un premier billet le problème de l’intégration des milices dans l’armée libyenne, il s’attache cette semaine à dresser un état des forces de cette dernière.
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Um Trauer und Scham über die europäische Flüchtlingspolitik auszudrücken, inspiriert von occupy Düsseldorf am Volkstrauertag unter dem Motto „Front gegen Frontex. Lampedusa ist hier“ diese eindrucksvolle Installation in Düsseldorf:
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„Out of Syria, Into a European Maze
As war rages on, more refugees are risking a journey to what they hope will be prosperous new lives. A boat packed with Syrian refugees fleeing the war bobbed in the sea about 50 miles off the southeastern coast of Sicily.
By JIM YARDLEY and GAIA PIANIGIANI
November 29, 2013 SYRACUSE, Sicily — Fifty miles off the southeastern coast of Sicily, the refugee boat first appeared as a gray spot on the horizon, rising up or dipping away with the churn of the Mediterranean. Then, as an Italian Coast Guard rescue ship drew closer, the small boat came fully into view, as did the dim figure of a man, standing on the bow, waving a white blanket.Adrift at sea, the boat heaved with about 150 Syrians fleeing war. Mothers in head scarves clutched infants. A child wore a SpongeBob life jacket. Smugglers had left them alone with a satellite phone and an emergency number in Italy: Save us, they pleaded to the Italians before the phone went dead. We are lost.Capt. Roberto Mangione shouted for everyone to stay calm as he positioned his Coast Guard ship alongside the listing trawler. The Syrians, pale and beleaguered, started clapping. They had been at sea for six days, drinking fetid water, enduring a terrifying storm. One man combed his hair, as if preparing to greet his new life. A woman named Abeer, dazed and exhausted, thought: salvation, at last. […]“
http://www.meltingpot.org/Mare-Nostrum
Mare Nostrum – Agenti libici sulle navi italiane
L’esternalizzazione dei controlli di frontiera. I rapporti con la Libia e la “cooperazione pratica” delle forze di polizia. L’Italia continua a violare il diritto internazionale dei rifugiati.
Prof. Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo
Secondo quanto comunicato dal ministero della difesa il 28 novembre 2013 “il Ministro Mauro e il suo omologo libico Al-Thinni hanno sottoscritto un accordo relativo all’impiego di mezzi aerei italiani a pilotaggio remoto in missioni a supporto delle autorità libiche per le attività di controllo del confine sud del Paese”.
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Italia – Libia: accordi di cooperazione
Il Ministro della Difesa Mario Mauro ha incontrato oggi, a Palazzo Baracchini, il Ministro della Difesa della Libia Abdullah Al-Thinni
Sono stati siglati questa mattina due accordi tecnici attraverso i quali la cooperazione bilaterale tra Italia e Libia sarà rafforzata.
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Navy picks up 300 more asylum seekers
By Ahmed Elumami
The Libyan navy yesterday picked up almost 300 asylum seekers in two separate incidents just off the coast.
In the first interception, to the north-west of Garabulli, on Thursday morning, a naval vessel spotted and intercepted a broken-down rubber raft carrying 109 passengers. Navy spokesman Ayoud Ghasem told the Libya Herald that the majority of people on board the inflatable was from West Africa.
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