IT HAS been a month since the Italian port authorities seized the last NGO refugee rescue ship operating in the central Mediterranean. “Unfortunately, very little has happened since the detention,” Sea Eye spokesman Simon Pompe told the Star today. “Search-and-rescue capacity is desperately needed at the world’s deadliest sea border, yet European governments are blocking rescue ships from saving lives,” Hannah Bowman, MSF’s communications manager on board the Sea Watch 4, told the Star today. Despite there being no dedicated rescue ships operating off the coast of Libya, people keep departing from its blood-soaked shores. “In the Mediterranean Sea, human rights have become insignificant, what matters is keeping the count of arriving migrants low.”Ben Cowles is the Star’s web editor.

Source: Libya Today November 09, 2020 18:33 UTC