hearing the screaming of women and children below decks.
exhaustion and dehydration as they treaded water in the open sea.
corroborated much of what Doa said.
Hamad, dangerously disoriented, very nearly drowned himself.
didn’t began to end their own lives,” says Hamad.
Doa was not at liberty to tell me the name of the ship that rammed hers, but she did tell the Greek authorities, which passed the information on to Egyptian authorities.
be that the more we protect our borders from irregular migration, the more desperate we make those who are determined to cross.
but so does their greed.
of Molyvos that evening and spoke to the interpreters who had interviewed survivors. Many refugees had refused to board, fearing for their lives, they said, but the smugglers fired guns in the air and intimidated them.
crossing the Mediterranean since 2014 may only be part of the story.
no one survived from doctors on the island of Ikaria, which sits at a solitary longitude across the Aegean’s predominant northeast wind.
sea floor until a storm stirs them from the depths.
with a Mickey Mouse patch, white boots and a pink overcoat.
Katte, a doctor at the Evdilos Health Centre on Ikaria’s north coast, described the body of an adult woman found washed up. “She was completely naked. It was an awful sight because although she had her arms and legs, her face was missing. There was no skin or flesh.
Macedonia (FYROM), Serbia, Hungary, Austria, and Germany.
They were robbed of their passports, cell phones, and money.
and had been turned back by FYROM police.
broken noses, skull fractures,” she said. “These are not accidents.
a lot of pain,” he said. The Afghan refugees called it the Black Road.
to give them the latest intelligence from the other side of the border about where gangs of thugs were operating that evening.
decided to withdraw for the evening and try another time.
sons, why he was taking the risk. “I decided to leave Yemen so that I will never see my children fight for Al Qaeda or any other side. Sooner or later, one militia or another will approach them,” he said.
Hashim had left behind his wife and four youngest children.
Baba prison in the capital, Skopje.
regarding the Status of Refugees of 1951 — while providing police with plausible deniability.
of finding sanctuary, they are met with violence and intimidation.
attempted to tow a boat to Farmakonisi, an islet in the east Aegean.
“The towing operation was heading to Farmakonisi Island.
The dead consisted of eight children and their three mothers.
a very different story to tell.
guard attempted to tow them back into Turkish territorial waters.
water was entering the engine area,” Sabur said.
the boat and the water had almost reached our waists,” said Sabur.
guard vessel stopped beside us. Haibar asked them to take [his] baby.
the boat to be refloated so they could bury their wives and children.
guard versus the word of the Afghans.
policy on both sides of the Atlantic. No one wants to declare the Geneva Convention a dead letter; the focus, instead, is on preventing asylum-seekers from reaching European (or US) soil, where they are in a stronger legal position to apply for asylum.
The hardening of attitudes is commensurate with the numbers.
to keep the world’s unfortunates at bay.