« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Beach graveyard: Libyan town seeks dignity for thousands who died on its shores  (Read 318 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline TomSea

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40,432
  • Gender: Male
  • All deserve a trial if accused
Beach graveyard: Libyan town seeks dignity for thousands who died on its shores
« on: November 01, 2017, 04:39:36 pm »
Quote
Beach graveyard: Libyan town seeks dignity for thousands who died on its shores
Karlos Zurutuza

Red Crescent workers collect the dead from Zuwara's shoreline, in August 2015 (Reuters)

ZUWARA, Libya - Sadiq Jiash can barely hide his emotion as he sketches out his plans for the first "real" resting place for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of victims of Libya's people-smuggling industry.

"It will be evenly spaced, with bodies buried in groups of 100 which will be numbered," he says, "There will be paths, a surrounding wall, and there will also be a guard. It will be a real cemetery, you know?"



Read more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-migrants-zuwara-graveyard-2002937071
Logged

Offline Suppressed

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12,921
  • Gender: Male
    • Avatar
Re: Beach graveyard: Libyan town seeks dignity for thousands who died on its shores
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2017, 07:08:15 pm »
@TomSea I appreciate your efforts in posting a variety of stories that I haven't seen elsewhere.
Logged
+++++++++
“In the outside world, I'm a simple geologist. But in here .... I am Falcor, Defender of the Alliance” --Randy Marsh

“The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness.” -- Thomas Jefferson

“He's so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent.” --Foghorn Leghorn

Offline truth_seeker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28,386
  • Gender: Male
  • Common Sense Results Oriented Conservative Veteran
Re: Beach graveyard: Libyan town seeks dignity for thousands who died on its shores
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2017, 07:21:20 pm »

Are the dead "victims" that tried to flee from their Islamic paradise, like East Germans gunned down??
Logged
"God must love the common man, he made so many of them.�  Abe Lincoln

Online Fishrrman

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,652
  • Gender: Male
  • Dumbest member of the forum
Re: Beach graveyard: Libyan town seeks dignity for thousands who died on its shores
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2017, 12:58:22 am »
"Beach graveyard: Libyan town seeks dignity for thousands who died on its shores"

Put up a sign that says, "stay alive -- don't do it!"
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »