L’Otan aurait pu les sauver, ils ont choisi de ne pas le faire
The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/28/left-to-die-migrants-boat-inquiry
Migrants left to die after catalogue of failures, says report into boat tragedy
Council of Europe investigator says deaths of migrants adrift in Mediterranean exposes double standards in valuing human life
Jack Shenker, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 March 2012 20.35 BST
Abu Kurke Kebato, one of the boat’s survivors, said he hoped the Council of Europe report would put pressure on Nato and Europe to unravel why his friends were left to die.
A catalogue of failures by Nato warships and European coastguards led to the deaths of dozens of migrants left adrift at sea, according to a damning official report into the fate of a refugee boat in the Mediterranean whose distress calls went unanswered for days.
A nine-month investigation by the Council of Europe – the continent’s 47-nation human rights watchdog, which oversees the European court of human rights – has unearthed human and institutional failings that condemned the boat’s occupants to their fate.