Police: Muslims Murdered 12 Christians – thrown overboard during Med voyage
[Yahoo! News] – Italy’s migration crisis took on a deadly new twist Thursday as police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants had thrown 12 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya, and an aid group said another 41 were feared drowned in a separate incident.
Palermo police said they had detained 15 people suspected in the high seas assault, which they learned of while interviewing tearful survivors from Nigeria and Ghana who had arrived in Palermo Wednesday morning after being rescued at sea by the ship Ellensborg.
The 15 were accused of multiple homicide aggravated by religious hatred, police said in a statement.
The survivors said they had boarded a rubber boat April 14 on the Libyan coast with 105 passengers aboard, part of the wave of migrants taking advantage of calm seas and warm weather to make the risky crossing from Libya, where most smuggling operations originate.
During the crossing, the migrants from Nigeria and Ghana — believed to be Christians — were threatened with being abandoned at sea by some 15 other passengers from the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau.
Eventually the threat was carried out and 12 were pushed overboard. The statement said the motive was that the victims “professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim.”
The surviving Christians, the statement said, only managed to stay on board by forming a “human chain” to resist the assault.
Earlier Thursday, the International Organization of Migration said four migrants who were picked up in recent days by the Italian Navy reported a shipwreck to aid workers after arriving in the Italian port of Trapani Thursday. Their boat had originally been carrying 45 people; the others are presumed dead.
World Migration Day
In 5 months ( Jan-May 2015 ), some 50,000 migrants from North Africa , crossed Mediterranean Sea in rickety boats, to land on shores of Italy
That is some 10,000 per month ( soon reaching 100,000 per month ? )
Irrespective of EU countries’ decision to admit only 20,000 per year , by 2020 this figure could reach 1 MILLION per month !
Why this huge migration ?
Apparent reasons :
> ISIL is terrorizing Syria / Iraq
> Boko Haram are doing the same in Nigeria
> Houthies are following both in Yemen
> Libya is facing a civil war
> North and South Sudans are at war
> Tunisia is boiling with massive unrest
> Taliban is rearing its ugly head in Afghanistan
> Egypt is simmering with angst against Muslim Brotherhood
> Pakistan is becoming terrorists’ training ground
> Turkey / Lebanon / Jordan are getting overrun with refugees
> All over Mid-East , Shias and Sunnis are fighting
In short , most of African and Mid-East countries are exploding with local wars , under Europe’s soft underbelly and porous right borders
Real reasons :
Millions of citizens of these countries are facing unemployment and consequent starvation ( when not getting killed by terrorists )
It is no different with migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar trying to find shelter in Indonesia / Philippines / Australia / Thailand
Closer At Home :
Of entire World’s 800 million ” mal-nourished ” ( euphemism for ” starving ” ) people , 200 million are in India
Only , instead of calling them ” Starving ” people , we choose to call them , ” Naxalites / Maoists ” etc !
We fail to realize that there can be no political solution to ” Starvation ” !
Where can they migrate ? There is no ” Promised Land ” on India’s borders !
Solution ?
Since no developed country wants to admit migrants from poor countries , let UNO declare , Antarctica as ” United States of Migrants ” – USM
And fix quotas of migrants that each poor country can dispatch to USM each year ( roughly in proportion to ” Starving ” population of each poor country )
Then contribute funds for creating settlements in Antarctica ( – in any case , due to Global Warming , ice-shelves are melting and soon Antarctica will become habitable ) .
For the rich countries , this would be the most , economically and socially viable solution
Let a beginning be made by declaring 27 June , as
” World Migration Day ”
hemen parekh
B2BmessageBlaster
09 June 2015