The country is still reeling from the effects of the Messenia boat tragedy, in which some hundred Pakistanis, the number of which remains unknown, were drowned while attempting to cross illegally from Libya to Italy. However, so far, the arrests have only been of those directly responsible for running the human trafficking at the root of the tragedy. In an ideal world, the government would clean up its act and provide at home the kind of opportunities that the tragedy victims were trying to seek illegally. There will be in time another tragedy, and after the same hand-wringing and breast-beating as we are seeing today, life will go on. What about those providing passage, possibly illegal, no doubt dubious, to Libya, and then those providing shipping to Italy?

Source: Libya Today June 21, 2023 17:29 UTC