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The UN refugee agency says not enough is being done to save the lives of the increased numbers of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
A UNHCR spokesman told the BBC around 400 migrants were still missing after their boat capsized off Libya.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32314263
More deaths at the hands of traffickers.
I'm still waiting for some clear answers from our glorious leaders as to what we do about all this. Do we carry on picking up bodies and boat loads of refugees or do we try to prevent them from coming? Do we restrict our humanitarian efforts to those refugees/migrants who've managed to travel to places like Libya or do we intervene elsewhere? That's clearly not been the choice made by the west in Syria, Libya etc. has it - no will to get in there and sort things out.
There are millions of people suffering poverty, oppression and worse around the globe, what do we do to help them or does it just make us feel a bit better dragging boatloads of migrants ashore and leaving the rest to their fate whether that be drowning in the Med. or being slaughtered in Syria?