Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Why migrants are dying in their thousands
to reach Italy?
140,000 migrants arrived in 2011, 160,000 in
2013 and 174,000 in 2014 rescued by Italian navy. This means a total of half a
million migrants crossed the Mediterranean from African coasts to Italy, and to
other part of Europe. Why so many people are fleeing? Where in Africa are they
from? Is it worth a risk boarding a smuggler’s boat that offers just enough
space to be onboard?
Most of those refugees are from Libya where
the famous tyrant Gadhafi was overthrown in 2011. Ever since the country was
liberalized, there has been no effective control mechanism or force to stop
illegal migrants sail off the coast, heading the nearest land of promise,
Italy.
The more they help, the more will feel
safer to sail off. A bitter controversy between humanitarian effort and immigration
control, isn’t it?
Enjoy reading and learning what is going on
in the beautiful sea between the two continents.
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