'Thank the statists': Record number of asylum seeker deaths at sea in 2014
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RR Phantom
Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
Subject: 'Thank the statists': Record number of asylum seeker deaths at sea in 2014 Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:32 pm
Six migrants floated in the freezing ocean in September, desperately trying not to slip under the thrashing waves. They had just watched 500 people drown in a small, unseaworthy boat captained by people smugglers who had since deserted them.
The Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians were plucked from the ocean by rescue authorities. They later told authorities they had heard the smugglers laughing as they left behind the hundreds of floating bodies.