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Thuyền nhân, giống Việt nam.

Sao cái tựa nhỏ khúc trên thì nói là “ferry” (phà thủ thiêm) mà cái tựa bự khúc dưới lại ghi là “cruise ship” (tàu du lịch)?

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Trông vời bến nước biết đâu là nhà
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At least 79 drown, hundreds missing in migrant shipwreck off Greece

By Karolina Tagaris and Stamos Prousalis
June 14, 202310:20 PM GMT+2
Updated 8 hours ago

Summary

• Boat believed to have left from Libya
• Captain reported to flee ship in small boat
• 'There were too many on the outer deck' -coast guard
• Estimates of number aboard range from 400 to 750

KALAMATA, Greece, June 14 (Reuters) - At least 79 migrants drowned early on Wednesday and hundreds more were missing and feared dead after their overloaded boat capsized and sank in open seas off Greece, in one of Europe's deadliest shipping disasters in recent years.

As a painstaking search for survivors continued, a European rescue-support charity said it believed around 750 people were on board the 20- to 30-metre-long (65- to 100-foot-long) vessel. The U.N.'s migration agency estimated up to 400 while Greece declined to speculate on the passenger count.

By midday, 104 people had been rescued. A media report said the boat left from Libya, and a shipping ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity said most of those on board were from Egypt, Syria and Pakistan.

Search and rescue operations were to continue through the night, with military aircraft deploying flares to light up the Mediterranean waters around the wreck site about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of the southern Greek coastal town of Pylos.

Survivors were taken to the Greek port of Kalamata near Pylos. Covered in blankets, they rested on mattresses at a warehouse shelter, and the migration ministry was expected to move them to a camp outside Athens.

The shipwreck was the deadliest off Greece in several years. In February, 96 people died when their wooden boat smashed into rocks on Italy's Calabrian coast during a storm.

Greece's caretaker administration, in power between an inconclusive election on May 21 and new elections on June 25, declared three days of national mourning.

MIGRANTS CROWDED ON THE DECKS

Greek state broadcaster ERT said the boat was en route to Italy from the Libyan town of Tobruk, which lies south of the Greek island of Crete. Greek authorities did not confirm the vessel's departure port.

Alarm Phone, which operates a trans-European network supporting rescue operations, said it received alerts from people on board a ship in distress off Greece late on Tuesday, with erratic contact after that.

"According to the people, there were 750 people on board... We now hear reports of a shipwreck and fear they are true," it said on Twitter.

Greek coast guard spokesperson Nikos Alexiou, speaking to Greece's MEGA TV, said authorities did not know how many were on the boat, especially below deck, but reported it was crowded. "...There were too many people on the outer deck. It was full," he said.

The Greek coast guard said EU border agency Frontex first spotted the boat on Tuesday in international waters southwest of Pylos, and Italian authorities then alerted Greece to the vessel's presence.

Alarm Phone said it informed Greek authorities, Frontex and the Greek division of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR late on Tuesday afternoon.





The charity said that shortly afterwards, it spoke to people on the vessel who said the captain had fled on a small boat and appealed for help.

The Greek coast guard reported its agents approached the vessel and offered help. But migrants packed on its outer deck "refused assistance and stated their desire to continue their voyage", according to the coast guard.

In aerial images released by the coast guard, dozens of people on the boat's upper and lower decks were looking up with outstretched arms.

A few hours later, the vessel began veering from side to side before capsizing around 2 a.m. on Wednesday then sinking, a government official said.

LIBYAN SMUGGLING NETWORKS

Greece is one of the main routes into the European Union for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

But since the previous conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis introduced tougher controls at the country's migrant camps, more people have chosen to make a longer, riskier sea journey from Turkey to Italy via Greece.

The Greek migration ministry blamed international smuggling networks for putting migrants' lives at risk, while Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, called on governments to work together on creating safe pathways for people fleeing poverty and war.

Libya, which has had little stability or security since a NATO-backed uprising in 2011, is a major launching point for people seeking to reach Europe by sea. People-smuggling networks are mainly run by military factions that control coastal areas.

In recent days, security forces in Libya have cracked down on migrants with detentions and deportations. It was not clear whether the ship that sank on Wednesday departed Libya before or after the crackdowns.

Greece was at the front line of Europe's migration crisis of 2015-16, when nearly 1 million people arrived on its islands from Turkey before heading north to wealthier European states.

Numbers have fallen dramatically since a 2016 EU-Turkey deal to stem the flows.

About 72,000 refugees and migrants have arrived so far this year in Europe's front-line Mediterranean countries, according to United Nations data, with the majority landing in Italy and around 6,500 in Greece.

Nearly 1,000 people are estimated to have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean this year, according to the U.N.

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Greece boat tragedy exposes Pakistan's migration problem

Haroon Janjua in Khuiratta
15 hours ago

Pakistani citizens accounted for the largest number of victims in the recent migrant boat disaster. DW spoke with victims' families about why so many are choosing to risk their lives for an uncertain future in Europe.


Officials said around 350 Pakistani migrants were aboard the capsized boat. Here, survivors are seen at a holding station in Greece
Image: Angelos Tzortzinis/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

On the evening of June 14, Muhammad Gulfam was at home in a rural mountain village in northern Pakistan when he received a call from his cousin about a migrant boat that had capsized that day off the coast of Greece.

His younger brother, Aakash Gulzar, had been on board. Jobless, and without many prospects in cash-strapped Pakistan, 21-year-old Gulzar had made up his mind that he would pay smugglers to embark on a monthslong journey across thousands of miles through arduous land and sea routes to Italy.

The journey was not cheap, and Gulzar's family had cobbled together €7,000 ($7,640) to pay a trafficking agent to smuggle him to Europe, where they hoped he would find a better life.

Late one afternoon in March, Gulzar hugged his mother and brothers goodbye and set off.

"We don't want it to be the final goodbye, we want to see him again and we hope he is one of the injured in the hospital," Gulfam told DW.

Naseem Begum, Gulzar's mother, said she had spoken to her son on the phone before he boarded the overloaded vessel.

"My son requested prayers on the phone call and said 'I will call you after reaching my destination,'" Begum told DW.



Pakistan's migration problem

Witness accounts described the vessel carrying Gulzar as a 30-meter (100-foot)-long fishing boat that was crammed with over 700 people. It had departed from Libya and sank 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) off the coast of Pylos, a small Greek coastal town on the Ionian Sea.

Gulzar is still missing and presumed dead. Begum has sent DNA samples to aid in identification of her son's remains, if they are found.

According to Pakistan's Interior Ministry, 350 of those on board were Pakistani citizens. They are among the thousands of people fleeing an economic crisis in the South Asian country that has left many people without hope.

According to data from Frontex, the European Union's border and coast guard agency, a record number of nearly 5,000 Pakistanis were detected on the "central Mediterranean route" into Europe in the first five months of 2023.

"We know that it is a combination of a lack of decent work and a general disillusionment about the future of the country which pushes young Pakistanis to use dangerous and illegal migration as a means to a better life. The victims on that boat must have been aware of the risks they were taking," said Imran Khan, country director for Pakistan at the United States Institute of Peace, a US federal agency.

The victims "could be alive today if there were better employment opportunities, economic security and political stability in Pakistan," he told DW.

In a village near Gulzar's home in northern Pakistan, a local district official, Sardar Mushtaq Ahmad, told DW that 24 young men from the area were reported missing after the boat accident. Relatives have provided DNA samples to aid in the identification of recovered bodies.

Among the missing is 31-year-old Sajid Yousaf, who was running a crockery shop in the local market but failed to make ends meet. Yousaf's two brothers already settled in Italy, one of them having taken the same route across the Mediterranean.

"We paid €7,100 to the smuggling agent to send Sajid to Italy where two of my sons are already living and earning well," Muhammad Yousaf, Sajid's father, told DW.

Osama Malik, a Pakistani immigration and refugee law expert, told DW that there are multiple push and pull factors that drive people to risk their lives for a chance to reach Europe.

"The rapid depreciation of the already weak Pakistani rupee against foreign currencies over the past 18 months has probably been a huge factor," he said, adding that political and economic uncertainty has led to "desperation" among young Pakistanis.

"Most young men, and now increasingly women, are willing to invest their savings, borrow money and risk their lives just to get out of the country to what they perceive as greener pastures," Malik said.

How do traffickers in Pakistan operate?

Approximately 90% of the Pakistanis who arrived in Italy in recent years have used a human smuggler, according to a 2022 survey by the Mixed Migration Centre, a Europe-based migrant research group.

Smugglers and middlemen work by canvassing poor towns and villages and promising youth a bright future in Europe in exchange for a lump sum of €6,000 to €10,000, which is paid to "bosses" living in European destination countries.

Gulzar and Yousaf's families told DW that they dealt with several local "trafficking agents" and paid a boss living in Italy for the journey.

One of these "agents" told DW under condition of anonymity that the market for smuggling has increased as Pakistan's economy has deteriorated, and foreign currency grows in value against the Pakistani rupee.

"Those wishing to flee Europe are aware of the hardship, life-threatening risks and dangers but they neglect those risks and opt for the voyages," he said.


The Greek coast guard took this grainy photo of the overloaded fishing boat before it capsized
Image: IOS/picture alliance

Pakistan cracks down on human trafficking

As the number of migrants continues to increase, Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency has been tasked by the government with cracking down on smugglers and agents, particularly in the wake of the tragedy.

"We have arrested 27 human smugglers across the country and 70 cases have been registered against those smugglers," spokesperson Abdul Ghafoor told DW.

Pakistan has signed on to international protocols to prevent human trafficking, and in 2018, passed the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act, but this has failed to put a dent in international human trafficking organizations.

"While legislation has improved over the years, its implementation is abysmal and needs to be improved if Pakistan is to counter the trafficking of citizens," said immigration expert Malik.

He said the few prosecutions have only netted small middlemen, while allegedly complicit government officials and trafficking bosses are left untouched.

"It is the foot soldiers of the human trafficking mafia who are occasionally arrested, but convictions are rare even in these cases. The human trafficking cartels are known to have very strong links with certain influential political families in central Punjab, and also have links with the military and bureaucracy," he said.

"The main solution to this problem is for Pakistan to improve its governance, adherence to rule of law and lift the economy so that young people do not feel the need to take such risks to escape," he added.

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Meloni có kiểu chơi bắt chẹt bằng tiền như Trâm.

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Asylum seekers in Italy told to pay to avoid detention
By Crispian Balmer
September 22, 20235:41 PM GMT+2Updated 17 hours ago

ROME, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Asylum seekers in Italy will have to pay 4,938 euros ($5,259) to avoid detention while their request for protection is being processed, the government said on Friday, in a measure apparently aimed at deterring migrants.

Facing a surge in new arrivals, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's coalition announced this week that it would increase the number of detention centres around the country to hold migrants ahead of their possible repatriation.

It also said that it would increase the amount of time people could be detained to 18 months from three months.

At present migrants to Italy who apply for asylum are free to move within the country while their application is reviewed, but the government decree published on Friday said they would have to pay a type of bail to stave off the threat of detention.

Human rights groups attacked the move.

"It is ridiculous. Who has got 5,000 euros?" said Anna Brambilla, a lawyer and member of the Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) that focuses on migrant rights.

"They are looking to make detention for migrants the norm, but it is hard to see how they can do that," she told Reuters.

At present there are 10 repatriation centres in Italy, which have a current capacity of just 619. Meloni has said she wants to at least double the number, and place one in each of the country's 20 regions.

However, many regional presidents and town mayors from across the political spectrum have said they do not want to host new centres and questioned the efficiency of a mass lock-up.

"We are talking about emptying the sea with a bucket," said Luca Zaia, the head of the northern Veneto region and a senior member of the coalition League party, traditionally anti-migrant.

MIGRANT NUMBERS RISING

Latest interior ministry data says 132,867 migrants have reached Italy by boat so far this year against 69,498 in the same period of 2022.

Italy does not have repatriation deals with many of the nations where the migrants come from, meaning it cannot deport them even if it wants to. Highlighting the problem, Rome deported just 3,916 foreigners in 2022.

Italian officials say the vast majority of people coming ashore in boats from north Africa are economic migrants looking for a better life in Europe and not eligible for asylum.

In 2022 Italy reviewed 52,625 asylum requests, rejecting 53.5% of them, according to official data. The government this year tightened the rules, scrapping "special protection" residency permits that were offered to migrants who did not qualify for asylum, but who faced humanitarian risks back home.

Some 10,865 of these permits were granted in 2022.

($1 = 0.9390 euros)

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Meloni có kiểu chơi bắt chẹt bằng tiền như Trâm.

Còn thua (hoặc là hơn?) Trâm ở chỗ không đòi xây bức tường ở phía Nam để ngăn chặn người di dân. Build the sea wall. Africa will pay for it.

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Di dân cũ ăn hiếp di dân mới:

The former refugee who wants to cut immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...emale-dutch-pm

At a packed party conference in Rotterdam on Saturday, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), launched her campaign for November’s elections with a call for liberty and security.

On a talk show in 2016, she showed her grandmother Sara’s Louis Vuitton bag and told how she and her politically active Turkish Kurdish parents had fled Turkey when she was eight. They took a “rickety” boat from Bodrum to Kos with what fitted in that bag, then settled in Amersfoort, 30 miles south-east of Amsterdam.

Recently, she told rightwing tabloid De Telegraaf that, unlike Rutte, she would not rule out forming a coalition with Geert Wilders’s PVV, the far-right and anti-immigration party, and she repeated this today.

Gọi là chiêu “vi chủ phản khách”. Được vô rồi cấm người khác.

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Còn thua (hoặc là hơn?) Trâm ở chỗ không đòi xây bức tường ở phía Nam để ngăn chặn người di dân. Build the sea wall. Africa will pay for it.

Thật ra cũng đáng đời lắm, hồi xưa Ý cũng chơi phao câu gà 20 đoạn, hay lưỡi bò 9 đoạn gì đó mới nhặt được 3 cái đảo, bây giờ người ta muốn lên đảo làm dân Ý thì lại không cho. Ôi, của thiên mà trả địa thì làm sao được. Nếu bắt chước Trâm xây cái thành chắc là khó khăn lắm vì phải đóng cọc như Hưng Đạo Vương xuống biển bao vây cái đảo. Africa phải "trả tiền" chít luôn á.

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Di dân cũ ăn hiếp di dân mới:

The former refugee who wants to cut immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...emale-dutch-pm




Gọi là chiêu “vi chủ phản khách”. Được vô rồi cấm người khác.

Recently, she told rightwing tabloid De Telegraaf that, unlike Rutte, she would not rule out forming a coalition with Geert Wilders’s PVV, the far-right and anti-immigration party, and she repeated this today.

Chiêu này thấy quen quen: "very fine people"
Vài hôm nữa đảng trưởng bắt tay làm quen với Putin nữa là "trọn gói".