An photo provided by Greece's coast guard on June 14, 2023, shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece.
For five days, “Breaking News” alerts hit my phone repeatedly with updates on the search for a missing submersible. The search for the five-passenger vessel began only days after an overloaded migrant vesselThe migrants aboard came from Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, all funneled through Libya in a desperate attempt to reach Europe. Only 104 survivors have been found, making it one of the deadliest sinkings ever in the Mediterranean Sea. But this tragedy was one of many.
It’s hard not to see the gross disparity in the response to five privileged men missing at sea, compared with the treatment of thousands of the least privileged on earth.U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard vessels and military aircraft were deployed for days at great expense searching for signs of the tourist submersible.
The Greek government denies this allegation, but dozens of cases have been brought against Greece in recent years for the deadly and illegal practice ofThe European Union might scold the Greek government for its failure to act in accord with international and European law, but it has hardly demonstrated more humanity. Instead of funding rescues, it funds migrants’ capture and imprisonment.to prevent migrants from arriving on its shores for the period of 2021 to 2027.