Corruption driving migration crisis

ITALIAN police yesterday arrested three Libyans and two Algerians accused of human trafficking and multiple homicide in connection with the presumed death by drowning of more than 200 migrants after a ship capsized in the Mediterranean on Wednesday. 

Corruption driving migration crisis

Police say migrants were beaten and stabbed during the voyage. Many of them were locked in the hold.

The tragedy was just another in a series underlining the desperation gripping those unfortunate people trying to escape poverty and violence in Africa. It shows too how inadequate our response to the humanitarian emergency has been and that we must do more to try to offer an humane response to those in such dreadful peril.

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