Libya’s coast guard intercepts a wooden boat carrying 53 Ethiopian ** Tegaru migrants, including 17 women and nine children, and four Egyptian migrants.
** Please note: Our Tigrayan nationalist ideology prevents us from calling ourselves and our Tegaru refugees "Ethiopians."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mi ... edirect=on
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Re: Washington Post: 53 Tegaru Asylum Seekers Intercepted Off Libyan Coast
The men and boys – many as young as 11 and traveling unaccompanied – trek 50 km (30 miles) from the Ethiopian border, and as much as 300 km in all, through searing heat and a boulder-strewn desert.
“It’s certainly hundreds who are lost in the desert (each year) and found later by local communities and buried under these omnipresent rocks,” said Labovitz. “It’s not pretty. They dry up and become petrified and are found later by local tribesmen.”
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR estimates another 70-75 die in the sea crossing to Yemen, but that is likely an underestimate.
“This route doesn’t get the attention it deserves because they are going to Saudi and not going to the shores of the Mediterranean,” Labovitz said.
http://www.primanews.org/2016/10/destit ... oats-back/
“It’s certainly hundreds who are lost in the desert (each year) and found later by local communities and buried under these omnipresent rocks,” said Labovitz. “It’s not pretty. They dry up and become petrified and are found later by local tribesmen.”
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR estimates another 70-75 die in the sea crossing to Yemen, but that is likely an underestimate.
“This route doesn’t get the attention it deserves because they are going to Saudi and not going to the shores of the Mediterranean,” Labovitz said.
http://www.primanews.org/2016/10/destit ... oats-back/