Source: l ' Espresso
A video documenting the tragic death of immigrants deported from Libya.
As expected the agreement signed between Berlusconi and Gaddafi
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The black hands raised to catch the air. A few steps further, the wind on his shirt last breath animates the face of a woman. Immediately beside the body of a boy still bowed in prayer which was never raised. Die as immigrants. So men and women end up not landing more in Lampedusa. Blocked by the Rome-Tripoli in Libya and returned to the desert. Abandoned on the sand just over the border. Sometimes they are forced to walk, up to the military fortress of Madama, a small army outpost of Niger, 80 km further south Sometimes you lose. Fall face down exhausted, hungry, thirsty and no one will find more of their bodies. A movie however, reveals one of these massacres. A short video 'The Express' was able to pull out from Libya and then by the Niger. Repatriation operation went wrong. Eleven dead. Seven men and four women, from what you see in the pictures.
The video was shot with a cell phone from one person to travel from Libya to Niger along the route from Al Gatrun, last oasis in Libya, and leads to Madame Dao Timmi, military outposts of the Republic of Niger. It is the Slave Route. The same location since 2003, tens of thousands of African migrants. Men and women seeking work in Libya, and then pay for the trip by boat to Lampedusa. According to the date of creation of file, the video was shot March 16, 2009 at 12:31. The Central Time on the day was confirmed by the absence of shadows in images. The man who films is accompanied by a military patrol. For a short sequence, we see a pick-up jeep with a machine gun. The 11 people who died of thirst would come up to that point distance. They gathered near a hill of rocks and sand. Perhaps hoping to spot a convoy passing by that hill and ask for help. On or near the bodies, shoes and pants of brands that you buy in Libya. Around no other jeep or truck. There are no roads or pistes. It is a region of the Sahara where there is a tendency only with the sun and stars.
In quei giorni migliaia di emigranti dell'Africa subsahariana salgono in Libia da Agadez, l'ultima città del Niger, ancora isolata dal mondo per la guerra civile tra l'esercito e una fazione di tuareg. Dalla fine del 2008 si contano almeno 10 mila emigranti in partenza ogni mese, dopo una lunga interruzione del traffico di clandestini. I passatori del Sahara riaprono gli affari sfruttando la ribellione tuareg, sostenuta dalla Francia per ottenere lo sfruttamento del secondo giacimento al mondo di uranio, a Imouraren, vicino ad Agadez. Il 2 marzo il presidente del Consiglio, Silvio Berlusconi, è invece in Libia per siglare l'ennesimo accordo con il colonnello Muhammar Gheddafi. È la visita in cui Berlusconi porge le apology for the colonial occupation. One in which the governments of Rome and Tripoli put the basis for cooperation in patrolling the coast, against departures to Lampedusa. In 2008, the Gaddafi regime had left to sail to Italy more than 30 000 immigrants, a record that drew thousands of people in Libya at that time locked in Agadez.
The meeting Berlusconi and Gaddafi is not only about immigration. Discuss personal affairs, of the 5 billion dollars in twenty years against Eni for compensation for war damages, contracts for oil and gas. Tripoli has undergone a gesture of goodwill towards the Niger and sends hundreds of immigrants locked up in detention camp the military base of Al Gatrun. Perhaps the dead movies with the phone are the tragic end of one of those operations. Gatrun to Agadez and are separated by 1,490 km of desert. Ten days of travel and one oasis in the middle, Dirkou. Until you get to Agadez can not be said to be survivors of the Sahara. But the police and the army of the Libyan Gatrun have never worried about the fate of the foreigners left at once across the border with Niger. Immigrants deported by the military trucks are unloaded and forced to walk. Or entrusted to smugglers who often abandon them long before they reach their destination. Border dotted line on the map, the first military post Niger is only Madama, 80 miles of hills and valleys without wells. Nothing else. Eighty miles in, lost the route and left the garbage can of water to light walk, it was going to die. Already in 2005, 'The Express' had discovered that the operations return to the Niger, after the first agreement between Berlusconi and Gaddafi, had caused 106 deaths in four months. And they were only the official figures. As the 50 crushed by a truck overloaded that it is upside down. Or the man from Ghana never identified, attacked and killed by a pack of wild dogs during a visit to Madame. And the three Nigerian girls died of thirst or collected LE15 dying with four men from a French humanitarian convoy, after have been abandoned. All death row inmates who had arranged their repatriation.
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