this also is part of their daily routine
to arrive too late to find people I did
not mean your calls to discuss the way
forward with the captain of sea watch as
the Maritim Coordination Center in Rome
if there are the vessels in the area
no other ship is able or willing to
recover the corpses Seawatch lacks
cooling facilities to take dead bodies
on board the only thing the team can do
is to document what they find
they put a lifejacket on the body note
the date and coordinates on it and leave
the dead person floating in the mass
grave of the Mediterranean Sea the
numbers of those who drowned have risen
again in recent months one possible
cause many NGOs have retreated the air
out here has become rough head of
mission Julian kuvera talks about the
unpredictability of the Libyan Coast
Guard but also about political pressure
and about the accusation that the NGOs
are part of the reasons why more
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known the system of calm a storm
actually arrives the next morning on the
radar the crew spots a relatively large
refugee boat although it is made out of
wood it is heavily overcrowded and prone
to capsize anymore
they will reach Europe thanks to the
civilian rescuers Seawatch takes 303
persons on board this morning almost all
of them from Eritrea
many of the refugees are in a bad
condition and malnourished hi Edie Sadiq
the cultural mediator on board of
Seawatch hear stories of violence rape
and torture daily some people are more
traumatized than others and some people
are more clearly abused than others but
I think it's quite clear that anyone who
comes through Libya has been through
hell many of these people tell us about
their time in prison or forced labour
refugees in Libya are seen as a
commodity rather than humans
Amnesty International just released
another report announcing severe human
rights violations these eretrians escape
that horror only a few hours
in a cage okay
yeah
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the same words can be heard again and
again I would rather have died at seed
and stayed in Libya a lot has changed
out here since last summer says Julian
Kuvera since the Libyan Coast Guard is
being financed trained and equipped by
Italy and the EU with the objective to
help with the search and rescue of
migrants on max on the city which is not
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believe the recording even as easy for
ensign this incident last November shows
how brutal that can be when Seawatch
arrives at the scene many people are
already in the water the Libyan Coast
Guard with the gray ship has approached
the refugee boat too fast
panic erupts and people fall into the
water the Libyan Coast Guard's majority
of them trained by the EU beat the
rescue people and some knees
disregarding a person still hanging on
the ladder outside the boat
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an Italian Navy helicopter appeals on
the radio
five corpses are recovered on that day
according to the Italian authorities
many more are believed to have drowned
in London the assistant professor
Violetta Marino Lux
studies the drama in the Mediterranean
closely for ten years she has been
researching and lecturing about refugee
rights and working together with NGOs to
that end she heavily criticizes the
cooperation with Libya the Libyan Coast
Guard is a construction it doesn't
really exist because there's no Libyan
state to which they are accountable that
on the one hand on the other hand we
know what that when people come back to
Libya they risk being tortured and
slaved and that is common knowledge that
everyone is aware of because of these
two factors in this particular
circumstances cooperation with the
Libyan Coast Guard is against human
rights law back onboard the Seawatch
we're confusing search is being
conducted the ship has received a
notification from the Coordination
centre in Rome a refugee boat in the
area is in distress a few miles further
down the crew detects an Italian Coast
Guard ship they contacted via radio
at first the Italians remain silent when
they finally respond they do so hesitant
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because of this the crew does not
proceed to the location and continues
its search in another direction but
shortly after they notice on the radar
the Libyan Coast Guard is heading
towards the Italians lingering there for
a while an hour later Seawatch learns
that the refugee boat has now been found
exactly in the area where the italians
have been all the time see what checks
again with the help of a special camera
the Libyans can be seen leaving the
scene vaguely visible on their deck are
dozens of heads most likely refugees the
Libyans are taking them back to Libya
out of international waters quite
possibly they were assisted during the
operation by the Italians yeah the whole
thing was just even now it's unclear in
my mind what just occurred but it seemed
though the coast guard vessel the
Italian vessel just completely lied to
us in order that they could
get those people back to Libya
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in seven stories it is not the first
time civilian rescuers encountered this
deliberate confusion last autumn the
news channe of ice documented a possibly
similar operation at that time a
journalist onboard the Libyan coast
guard vessel in their future the Libyan
captain tells her that he has just been
called by the Italians from the Italian
warship we received the position and
they confirm keep away a ban on the
Italian ship warns the migrants instead
of rescuing the refugees themselves they
called the Libyans who then take them on
board this behavior of the Italians may
be in violation of international law
they are indirectly responsible because
they are informing the Libyans in the
knowledge that people are going to end
up in a situation of ill treatment and
that makes them complicit of their final
fate so either directly or indirectly I
think personally there is Italian
responsibility to be determined in these
particular circumstances together with
other legal experts Violetta Moreno
lacks prepares a case to take Italy to
the European Court of Human Rights
Italy denies the accusations the
Minister of the Interior wrote in a
letter to the Commissioner for Human
Rights of the European Council in autumn
2017 Italy has never rejected my grants
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Libya is also an important topic during
the annual conference of Frontex the
European Border Agency the director
emphasizes once again that Libya is not
a safe place for Refugees I would never
sign an operational plan when never at
this point of time III would not sign an
operational plan saying that rescued
migrants should disembark to Libya but
for Italy and the EU the focus is clear
to stem migration to that and even a
collaboration with questionable partner
seems legitimate only in January
according to the UNHCR the Libyan Coast
Guard picked up and returned more than
1,400 migrants meanwhile on Seawatch one
deck has been converted to a makeshift
Church these area trains praise God for
having escaped Libya they say their
group had been locked up in a warehouse
for many months soon they will arrive in
Sicily
what expects them there is answer
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Yuliang Kuvera is aware of the fact that
the NGOs are a part of this confused
situation too but he doesn't think that
the problem can be solved out here let's
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since past years rough any signs or the
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introduces it Watson that's a fact
listed that Suzanne and astatine must
become part of this is also to destroy
boats so that these will not again
endanger the lives of hundreds of people