The EU and its member states have all but ceased search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean, while criminalising NGO rescue ships and funding the Libyan coastguard to intercept refugees and return them to squalid detention centres, where many are tortured or die of illness.
I-EU namazwe angamalunga ayo asekwenze konke aze ayeka umsebenzi wokufuna nokuhlenga eMediterranean, ngesikhathi egxeka ubugebengu osizweni lwemikhumbi yama-NGO futhi esiza ngokwezimali abaqaphi bomngcele waseLibya ukuvimba ababaleki bababuyisele ezindaweni ababoshelwe kuzo, lapho abaningi babo behlukunyezwa noma babulawe yizifo.