EU: Shifting Rescue to Libya Risks Lives

Email sent on May 10, 2017, from Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre Rome to Sea-Watch 2 rescue ship, informing them that the Libyan coast guard had assumed control over a rescue operation.
Email sent on May 10, 2017, from Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre Rome to Sea-Watch 2 rescue ship, informing them that the Libyan coast guard had assumed control over a rescue operation. Courtesy of Sea-Watch.
Aerial photograph of overcrowded migrant boat, taken at 05:01 UTC on May 10, 2017, and provided by Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre Rome to Sea-Watch 2 for identification purposes.
Aerial photograph of overcrowded migrant boat, taken at 05:01 UTC on May 10, 2017, and provided by Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre Rome to Sea-Watch 2 for identification purposes.  Courtesy of Sea-Watch.
Libyan coast guard patrol boat 267 en route to a rescue in international waters. May 23, 2017, captured by Italian television crew from RAI-TG3.
Libyan coast guard patrol boat 267 en route to a rescue in international waters. May 23, 2017, captured by Italian television crew from RAI-TG3. © RAI-TG3
A man sits with his children during a visit by U.N. Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler, and International Organization for Migration, Director General William Lacy Swing, at a detention camp in Tr
A man sits with his children during a visit by U.N. Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler, and International Organization for Migration, Director General William Lacy Swing, at a detention camp in Tripoli, Libya. March 22, 2017.  © REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
A wooden boat with migrants and asylum seekers rescued in international waters by the Libyan coast guard arrives at the port in Tripoli, Libya. May 10, 2017.
A wooden boat with migrants and asylum seekers rescued in international waters by the Libyan coast guard arrives at the port in Tripoli, Libya.  May 10, 2017.  © REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
Libyan coast guard patrol boat 206 arriving in Tripoli, Libya, with migrants and asylum seekers rescued in international waters. May 10, 2017.
Libyan coast guard patrol boat 206 arriving in Tripoli, Libya, with migrants and asylum seekers rescued in international waters. May 10, 2017. © REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
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