Dilbert_X wrote:
That was all dismantled years ago, it had the desired effect of discouraging economic migrants from setting off and drowning at sea.
Still, it looks a lot plusher than what the 5.6 million Palestinian refugees have endured for the last 75 years.
Where's your outrage now?
The key is to stop assholes fucking up the world and creating refugees in the first place, isn't that the UN's main purpose?
Not sitting back and letting it happen then trying to resettle the millions displaced.
whatabouttery at its fucking insipid finest. 'let's get really angry about 3000 syrians per year because LOOK AT PALESTINE!'
you can be outraged and/or sympathetic about both issues, dilbert. they are not exclusive choices. the general idea(s) underlying the UN's refugee policies is, in fact, universalist in nature and precisely tries to extend the same rights to everyone, regardless of the particularities of their situation. hence innocent syrian families and innocent palestinians are deserving of the same basic rights (and right to seek refuge).
instead nations ike greece are engaging in sadistic 'pushback' policies, deploying their coastguard and navy to ... rough up sea-crossing migrants, slap them about a bit, and abandon them at sea. what an amazing use of time and money, eh?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ … ees-at-seaThe legal case claims that in an operation of unprecedented size and sophistication, instead of helping the stranded people onboard, a Greek search and rescue vessel and two small patrol boats stalled the smuggler’s boat for five hours until speedboats carrying masked commandos arrived. Several passengers claim they were beaten in the ensuing incident.
Those onboard were separated into two groups and taken to two large coastguard boats, where armed crews of between 10 and 15 men, most wearing balaclavas, searched them and confiscated belongings including phones, passports and money.
The passengers were then reportedly forced on to several small life rafts, towed back to Turkish waters and abandoned at sea without food, water, life jackets or any means to call for help. By the time they were picked up by the Turkish coastguard, their ordeal had lasted more than 24 hours.
“It was like watching a movie. The men from the speedboats jumped onboard screaming and shouting, they all had guns and knives and were wearing black and masks,” said Mahmoud, a witness from Syria whose name has been changed.
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