Devastating Photographs Reveal Terrible Human Cost of Europe's Continuing Imperialism
Migrants seeking a better life in Europe have died by the thousands
in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years while fleeing poverty and
bloodshed in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
The precise number of deaths is unknown. Authorities count only those
bodies found in the sea, on shore, or aboard boats. Survivors often
tell of fellow passengers who lost their lives at sea, but the bodies
are never found.
As many as 1,500 migrants are believed to have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year. Many were children.
The death toll in 2015 is on course to far exceed the 3,200 people
who died making the journey in 2014 – according to the International
Organisation for Migration – given that the summer peak has not yet
begun. Fewer than 100 of the deaths in 2014 took place before May.
