A warship NATO assisted African migrants whose boat drifted in the Mediterranean Sea. The fact led to the deaths of at least 61 people from starvation and thirst despite requests for help from immigrants, as revealed by The Guardian newspaper .The Alliance itself considered these statements of "erroneous."
According to the newspaper said in late March, a boat with 72 people aboard, including women and children, drifted after starting from Tripoli to the Italian island of Lampedusa .
The boat appealed to the Italian coast guard and made visual contact with an aircraft of NATO, however, nobody took them.
As a result, most died of hunger and thirst at sea, abandoned to their fate, after being adrift for more than 16 days.
Only 11 survivors managed to reach the Libyan coast Zliten near the city of Misurata . Two of them died soon after, an almost touching ground and the other in jail, where forces Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi took the survivors and remained locked up for four days.
However, NATO spokesman, Carmen Romero, said the military aircraft the partnership was operating at "over 100 nautical miles offshore," so that "any statement that a NATO aircraft found and then ignored the vessel in distress is wrong."
The International Maritime Law requires all ships, including military, to respond to distress calls from ships found in the vicinity and provide assistance. Some organizations that defend the rights of refugees have demanded an investigation of what happened.
Viejo Condor
RT.net (SIC)
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