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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5912487" data-attributes="member: 48469">Meanwhile,&nbsp; the Europeans have been paying north African countries to take illegal immigrants into the middle of deserts at gunpoint and leave them there to die.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/eu-migrant-north-africa-mediterranean/" target="_blank">With E.U. backing, North African nations aggressively push back migrants - Washington Post</a>May 20, 2024&quot;A year-long joint investigation by The Washington Post, Lighthouse Reports and a consortium of international media outlets shows how the European Union and individual European nations are supporting and financing aggressive operations by governments in North Africa to detain tens of thousands of migrants each year and dump them in remote areas, often barren deserts.European funds have been used to train personnel and buy equipment for units implicated in desert dumps and human rights abuses, records and interviews show. Migrants have been pushed back into the most inhospitable parts of North Africa, exposing them to abandonment with no food or water, kidnapping, extortion, sale as human chattel, torture, sexual violence and, in the worst instances, death.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5912487, member: 48469"] Meanwhile, the Europeans have been paying north African countries to take illegal immigrants into the middle of deserts at gunpoint and leave them there to die. [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/eu-migrant-north-africa-mediterranean/']With E.U. backing, North African nations aggressively push back migrants - Washington Post[/URL] May 20, 2024 "A year-long joint investigation by The Washington Post, Lighthouse Reports and a consortium of international media outlets shows how the European Union and individual European nations are supporting and financing aggressive operations by governments in North Africa to detain tens of thousands of migrants each year and dump them in remote areas, often barren deserts. European funds have been used to train personnel and buy equipment for units implicated in desert dumps and human rights abuses, records and interviews show. Migrants have been pushed back into the most inhospitable parts of North Africa, exposing them to abandonment with no food or water, kidnapping, extortion, sale as human chattel, torture, sexual violence and, in the worst instances, death." [/QUOTE]

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