2010-11-28 The Independent: Yemen's tragic tide of trafficked humanity

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Nearly 80,000 were trafficked by criminal gangs last year. There would have been more, but some of the human cargo die en route. Treated no better than consignments of contraband freight, they perish on the hazardous sea crossing from the Horn of Africa.

In the past year or so, more than a thousand have died, many of them tipped out of boats to drown within sight of the beach. And those who do make it through are helping create one of the Arab world's biggest humanitarian crises – camps and bands of displaced persons who are, to all but the few agencies that care for them, mere human flotsam and jetsam.

For decades, the Red Sea country has been the middle link in an illegal people-smuggling chain that spans five countries. But a recent tightening of controls on borders with Saudi Arabia has led to an unfolding human crisis with thousands of Africans stranded in one of the most inhospitable regions of the country. Tens of thousands of Africans fleeing civil war and destitution in Somalia and Ethiopia have crossed the Gulf of Aden on rickety boats as part of a trafficking industry thought to be worth at least $20m (£13m) annually...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemens-tragic-tide-of-trafficked-humanity-2145647.html

[Ystävä]

Voisi kuvitella, että jos vastaanotto Jemenin ja muiden onneloiden puolella olisi tarpeeksi tyly ja tulijoita palautettaisiin Afrikkaan saman tien kun he saapuvat maihin, niin sana kiirisi ettei kannata edes yrittää. Ihmisten salakuljetuksesta voisi myös säätää paljon ankarammat rangaistukset.

Jos afrikkalaiset rakentaisivat maataan samalla rahalla ja innolla, jolla yrittävät maanosastaan lähteä pois, niin sillä jo pelkästään voisi muokata elinolosuhteita huomattavasti paremmiksi.