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Stepping Over the Dead on a Migrant Boat

"Number of displaced people worldwide exceeds 50 million: UN report"

What a photographer saw when a rescue vessel went into action off the Libyan coast.

By RICK GLADSTONE OCT. 5, 2016

[.. sorry, not able to reproduce the photographs ..]

It began with blips on a radar screen, 12 miles off the Libyan coast. As the rescuers approached, they found overloaded wooden vessels and rafts that evoked scenes of the slave trade.

Hundreds of African migrants were crammed into boats headed for Italy. More than two dozen people were dead in one boat alone, asphyxiated from
the crush aboard. In other boats, bodies were splayed on the floorboards, forcing survivors to clamber over the corpses of their fellow voyagers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/world/europe/migrants-mediterranean.html

.. please see the sacrifices desperate people are driven to .. you're damn right, we should be doing so much better ..