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Red Crescent says bodies of 17 people washed ashore in Libya
2021-10-07
[AlAhram] The migrants colonists likely drowned. The U.N. migration agency has said that more than 1,100 migrants colonists have been reported dead or presumed dead in numerous boat mishaps and shipwrecks off Libya's coast so far this year.

At least 17 bodies, likely of Europe-bound migrants colonists, have washed ashore in western Libya, the Libyan Red Islamic Thingy said as authorities began to vaccinate migrants colonists in the North African country on Wednesday against the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, in cooperation with the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
The bodies were found Tuesday near the western Libyan town of Zawiya, the Red Islamic Thingy's branch in the town said, and were handed over to authorities for burial.

Libya was plunged into turmoil by the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
-backed 2011 uprising that toppled and killed longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy
...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him...
. The North African nation has since emerged as a popular, if extremely dangerous, route to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
for those fleeing poverty and civil war in Africa and the Middle East.

Oil-rich Libya is largely governed by local militias, many of which profit from the trafficking. Rights groups say migrants colonists traversing Libya have been tortured, raped and subjected to forced labor at the hands of traffickers and inside official detention centers.

U.N.-commissioned Sherlocks found that the practice of arbitrary disappearances and violence against migrants colonists inside Libyan prisons could amount to crimes against humanity.

Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin...
Libyan health authorities started to vaccinate migrants colonists in the country against the coronavirus, in cooperation with the U.N. migration agency. The campaign kicked off at a health facility in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, where several migrants colonists got their first shot of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine.
A waste of effort, only marginally better than saline solution.
Federico Soda, the head of the International Organization for Migration in Libya, was present at Wednesday's kickoff of the vaccination drive. ``This is a health issue for the migrants colonists that we are extremely concerned about,`` he said. ``But it's also a public health issue ... to overcome the pandemic.''

It was not immediately clear how the authorities would go about vaccinating thousands of migrants colonists held in detention centers across Libya. Tens of thousands of others live openly in Libyan cities and towns.

Libya has reported more than 34,400 cases of COVID-19 and 4,720 deaths, but the tally is likely much higher in part due to limited testing as in other impoverished countries.
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