USA did not lift a single finger do any rescue nor sent any relief supplies, even with all these big empty talkcock about Humanity, and all these planes and satellites and naval ships. They all pretend the refugee ships were STEALTH and INVISIBLE.
The USA is BANKRUPT and playing blur fuck act dumb.
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Over 430 Migrants Taken to Indonesia After Months at Sea
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMAY 20, 2015, 12:00 A.M. E.D.T.
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SIMPANG TIGA, Indonesia — A flotilla of Indonesian fishermen rescued more than 430 migrants who were stranded at sea and brought them ashore to safety Wednesday, the latest victims of a humanitarian crisis confronting Southeast Asia. Hoping to find a solution, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia held an emergency meeting to address the plight of the migrants who are fleeing persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh.
The migrants were rescued early Wednesday by more than a dozen fishermen's boats, said Herman Sulaiman, from East Aceh district's Search and Rescue Agency.
It was unclear if the migrants were on one boat or had come from several, but an initial batch of 102 people were the first brought to shore in the village of Simpang Tiga in Indonesia's eastern Aceh province, Sulaiman and other rescuers said.
"They were suffering from dehydration, they are weak and starving," Khairul Nove, head of Langsa Search and Rescue Agency in Aceh province. Among the 102 passengers were 26 women and 31 children, he said.
One of the migrants, Ubaydul Haque, 30, said the ship's engine had failed and the captain fled, and that they were at sea for four months before Indonesian fishermen found them.
"We ran out of food, we wanted to enter Malaysia but we were not allowed," he said.
One of the fishermen who led the rescue was 40-year-old Razali Puteh. He said he spotted a green wooden trawler crammed with people who were screaming, waving their hands and clothes at him to get his attention.
As he neared the trawler, people aboard began jumping into the water, trying to reach his boat. He said he asked them to stay on their boat, which apparently had no motor, and promised to return with help. He then returned with other fishing boats and brought the migrants to shore.
The rescue after Indonesia's foreign minister said late Tuesday that the country had "given more than it should" to help hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants stranded on boats by human traffickers.
The foreign minister, Retno Marsudi, was meeting Wednesday with his counterparts from Malaysia and Thailand in an emergency meeting called to discuss how to solve the migrant problem. Representatives from the U.N. refugee agency and the International Office for Migration were also expected to attend the meeting.
"This irregular migration is not the problem of one or two nations. This is a regional problem which also happens in other places. This is also a global problem," Marsudi told reporters after a Cabinet meeting at the presidential palace.
Marsudi said Indonesia has sheltered 1,346 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who washed onto Aceh and North Sumatra provinces last week. The first batch came on May 10 with 558 people on a boat, and the second with 807 on three boats landed on Friday. Even before the crisis, nearly 12,000 migrants were being sheltered in Indonesia awaiting resettlement, she said, with most of those Rohingya Muslims who have fled persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. No more than 500 of those migrants are resettled in third countries each year, she said.
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"Indonesia has given more than it should do as a non-member-state of the Refugee Convention of 1951," she said.
The crisis emerged this month as governments in the region began cracking down on human trafficking. Some captains of trafficking boats abandoned their vessels — and hundreds of migrants — at sea. About 3,000 of the migrants have reached land in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, but all three countries have pushed some ships away. Aid groups estimate that thousands more migrants — who fled persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh — are stranded in the Andaman Sea.
Myanmar's cooperation is seen as vital to solving the crisis, but its government has already cast doubt on whether it will attend a conference to be hosted by Thailand on May 29 that is to include 15 Asian nations affected by the emergency.
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Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report.
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U.N. estimates up to 850 migrants perished in capsized boat off Libya
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An overloaded boat with hundreds of desperate migrants capsized and sank off the Libyan coast on Sunday.
By Anthony Faiola April 21 Follow @Anthony_Faiola
BERLIN — The United Nations refugee agency estimated Tuesday that as many as 850 migrants had perished in a boat capsizing this week off the coast of Libya, as the ship’s captain and a crew member were taken into custody on criminal *charges.
The U.N. estimate would confirm fears that the accident was the single worst disaster involving the flow of migrants seeking to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea.
But Italian prosecutors gave a broader range on the possible death toll, saying that interviews with survivors placed the number of victims between 400 and 950.
They said crew members from the Portuguese merchant vessel that had tried to aid the ship had estimated about 850 were aboard. Only 28 migrants survived.
[3 reasons why Europe is being held responsible for migrant deaths]
The United Nations said Sunday's shipwreck in the Mediterranean killed more than 800 migrants, calling it "the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean that we have recorded." (Reuters)
A substantial number of passengers — including scores of women and children — perished Sunday as they were trapped below decks on the three-tiered vessel, apparently helpless as the boat tipped over, according to interviews with survivors.
Coupled with previous fatalities during the first half of the month, the estimate by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees would put the migrant death toll for April so far well over 1,000 — making it “the worst month ever recorded,” said Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the refu*gee agency.
[Amid flood of refugees to Europe, Italy opens a back door]
The prosecutor’s office said — according to witnesses — that the capsized ship left from somewhere near Tripoli on Thursday evening. The migrants had been kept — up to 30 days — inside a farm near the port and were loaded onto trucks in groups of 30 before they embarked. In at least one instance, one of the migrants was hit with a club because he wanted to go to the bathroom and did not ask for permission. Each passenger had to pay 500 to 1,000 Libyan dinars for the trip.
Prosecutors also offered more insight into what went wrong in the inky waters that night.
They said the capsizing appeared to be the product of two factors. The captain, they said, executed a faulty maneuver when attempting to steer toward the King Jacob, the Portuguese vessel whose crew was attempting a rescue, leading to a collision. At the same time, migrants shifted to one side of the overloaded boat, leading it to capsize.
With more migrants streaming toward Europe — including three more reported dead off the coast of Greece on Tuesday — aid agencies feared the numbers would yet rise.
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On Tuesday, the Italian coast guard launched a dawn rescue about 80 miles southeast of Calabria, saving 446 migrants aboard a fishing boat that was starting to sink. All passengers — including 59 children and 95 women — were taken aboard an Italian navy vessel.
In Sunday’s tragedy, Italian prosecutors said Mohammed Ali Malek, 27, the Tunisian captain, and Mahmud Bikhit, 25, a Syrian crew member, were taken into custody after a ship carrying survivors docked in Catania, Sicily.
Both men were charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration. The captain was also charged with reckless multiple homicide and faulty handling of a vessel at sea.
Stephanie Kirchner in Berlin, Stefano Pitrelli in Treviso, Italy, and Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this report.
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The USA is BANKRUPT and playing blur fuck act dumb.
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Over 430 Migrants Taken to Indonesia After Months at Sea
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMAY 20, 2015, 12:00 A.M. E.D.T.
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SIMPANG TIGA, Indonesia — A flotilla of Indonesian fishermen rescued more than 430 migrants who were stranded at sea and brought them ashore to safety Wednesday, the latest victims of a humanitarian crisis confronting Southeast Asia. Hoping to find a solution, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia held an emergency meeting to address the plight of the migrants who are fleeing persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh.
The migrants were rescued early Wednesday by more than a dozen fishermen's boats, said Herman Sulaiman, from East Aceh district's Search and Rescue Agency.
It was unclear if the migrants were on one boat or had come from several, but an initial batch of 102 people were the first brought to shore in the village of Simpang Tiga in Indonesia's eastern Aceh province, Sulaiman and other rescuers said.
"They were suffering from dehydration, they are weak and starving," Khairul Nove, head of Langsa Search and Rescue Agency in Aceh province. Among the 102 passengers were 26 women and 31 children, he said.
One of the migrants, Ubaydul Haque, 30, said the ship's engine had failed and the captain fled, and that they were at sea for four months before Indonesian fishermen found them.
"We ran out of food, we wanted to enter Malaysia but we were not allowed," he said.
One of the fishermen who led the rescue was 40-year-old Razali Puteh. He said he spotted a green wooden trawler crammed with people who were screaming, waving their hands and clothes at him to get his attention.
As he neared the trawler, people aboard began jumping into the water, trying to reach his boat. He said he asked them to stay on their boat, which apparently had no motor, and promised to return with help. He then returned with other fishing boats and brought the migrants to shore.
The rescue after Indonesia's foreign minister said late Tuesday that the country had "given more than it should" to help hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants stranded on boats by human traffickers.
The foreign minister, Retno Marsudi, was meeting Wednesday with his counterparts from Malaysia and Thailand in an emergency meeting called to discuss how to solve the migrant problem. Representatives from the U.N. refugee agency and the International Office for Migration were also expected to attend the meeting.
"This irregular migration is not the problem of one or two nations. This is a regional problem which also happens in other places. This is also a global problem," Marsudi told reporters after a Cabinet meeting at the presidential palace.
Marsudi said Indonesia has sheltered 1,346 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who washed onto Aceh and North Sumatra provinces last week. The first batch came on May 10 with 558 people on a boat, and the second with 807 on three boats landed on Friday. Even before the crisis, nearly 12,000 migrants were being sheltered in Indonesia awaiting resettlement, she said, with most of those Rohingya Muslims who have fled persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. No more than 500 of those migrants are resettled in third countries each year, she said.
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"Indonesia has given more than it should do as a non-member-state of the Refugee Convention of 1951," she said.
The crisis emerged this month as governments in the region began cracking down on human trafficking. Some captains of trafficking boats abandoned their vessels — and hundreds of migrants — at sea. About 3,000 of the migrants have reached land in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, but all three countries have pushed some ships away. Aid groups estimate that thousands more migrants — who fled persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh — are stranded in the Andaman Sea.
Myanmar's cooperation is seen as vital to solving the crisis, but its government has already cast doubt on whether it will attend a conference to be hosted by Thailand on May 29 that is to include 15 Asian nations affected by the emergency.
___
Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report.
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U.N. estimates up to 850 migrants perished in capsized boat off Libya
Responding to disaster in the Mediterranean Sea
View Photos
An overloaded boat with hundreds of desperate migrants capsized and sank off the Libyan coast on Sunday.
By Anthony Faiola April 21 Follow @Anthony_Faiola
BERLIN — The United Nations refugee agency estimated Tuesday that as many as 850 migrants had perished in a boat capsizing this week off the coast of Libya, as the ship’s captain and a crew member were taken into custody on criminal *charges.
The U.N. estimate would confirm fears that the accident was the single worst disaster involving the flow of migrants seeking to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea.
But Italian prosecutors gave a broader range on the possible death toll, saying that interviews with survivors placed the number of victims between 400 and 950.
They said crew members from the Portuguese merchant vessel that had tried to aid the ship had estimated about 850 were aboard. Only 28 migrants survived.
[3 reasons why Europe is being held responsible for migrant deaths]
The United Nations said Sunday's shipwreck in the Mediterranean killed more than 800 migrants, calling it "the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean that we have recorded." (Reuters)
A substantial number of passengers — including scores of women and children — perished Sunday as they were trapped below decks on the three-tiered vessel, apparently helpless as the boat tipped over, according to interviews with survivors.
Coupled with previous fatalities during the first half of the month, the estimate by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees would put the migrant death toll for April so far well over 1,000 — making it “the worst month ever recorded,” said Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the refu*gee agency.
[Amid flood of refugees to Europe, Italy opens a back door]
The prosecutor’s office said — according to witnesses — that the capsized ship left from somewhere near Tripoli on Thursday evening. The migrants had been kept — up to 30 days — inside a farm near the port and were loaded onto trucks in groups of 30 before they embarked. In at least one instance, one of the migrants was hit with a club because he wanted to go to the bathroom and did not ask for permission. Each passenger had to pay 500 to 1,000 Libyan dinars for the trip.
Prosecutors also offered more insight into what went wrong in the inky waters that night.
They said the capsizing appeared to be the product of two factors. The captain, they said, executed a faulty maneuver when attempting to steer toward the King Jacob, the Portuguese vessel whose crew was attempting a rescue, leading to a collision. At the same time, migrants shifted to one side of the overloaded boat, leading it to capsize.
With more migrants streaming toward Europe — including three more reported dead off the coast of Greece on Tuesday — aid agencies feared the numbers would yet rise.
Illegal migration into Europe View Graphic
On Tuesday, the Italian coast guard launched a dawn rescue about 80 miles southeast of Calabria, saving 446 migrants aboard a fishing boat that was starting to sink. All passengers — including 59 children and 95 women — were taken aboard an Italian navy vessel.
In Sunday’s tragedy, Italian prosecutors said Mohammed Ali Malek, 27, the Tunisian captain, and Mahmud Bikhit, 25, a Syrian crew member, were taken into custody after a ship carrying survivors docked in Catania, Sicily.
Both men were charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration. The captain was also charged with reckless multiple homicide and faulty handling of a vessel at sea.
Stephanie Kirchner in Berlin, Stefano Pitrelli in Treviso, Italy, and Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this report.
Read more:
The real reason for the Mediterranean migrant crisis
Calls for action in Europe after migrant disaster in Mediterranean
E.U. vows to boost migrant search-and-rescue efforts
Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world
Read more:
Why Britain won’t save drowning migrants in the Mediterranean
Here are the key players fighting the war for Libya, all over again
In heart of Europe, migrants offer a one-stop tour of worldwide misery
A private mission to save migrants
Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world
