#greek coastguard

[pagan-mushroom]

So the sub imploded. Instant death. Even James Cameron said it most likely imploded. Yeah, five people died.

The media keeps saying how "extremely wealthy" or "billionaire" died. Just a reminder that they were rich.

The media doesn't talk about how for about 13 hours, The Greek coastguard stood and watched a ship in distress as 700 people on a ship were sinking into the water.

Yeah there is a little snippet, but that is it.

"Tributes are paid to the family of a wealthy.."

OH FUCK OFF

Tributes should be paid to the over 100 dead and 500 people still missing at sea. Where was their rescue mission? Where was the coast guard when they were screaming, crying, praying and drowning?

For context, 700 people is about the same number that the Carpathia rescued from the Titanic. She nearly destroyed her damn engines and raced through an ice field to get to her sister to try and save as many as they could.

Did anyone do the same for the 700 people on board the ship in Greek waters? No, they watched the ship for 13 hours as it sunk and lives were lost.

Oh, and incase you're wondering, the US coastguard still says they might try and recover the bodies. WHAT FUCKING BODIES?

They imploded, they were turned into instant fish food. Leave them down there and maybe focus on then 500 missing people stil lost at sea?

[cantquitu]

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[lesbianbongwater]

Every piece of news I heard deepens my suspicion that I died in 2017 and everything from that point on has been a simulation that is rapidly deteriorating. Or maybe I'm just in hell

[apricitystudies]

 what i read in june. 2023:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

race & gender

a few good men (usa)

catching the men who sell subway groping videos (china/japan)

wonder women

i learnt about masculinity from a colombian telenovela

the romance scammer on my sofa (nigeria)

politics & current affairs

have assisted dying laws gone too far? (canada)

inside man (usa)

cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the home office (uk)

portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. why hasn’t the world copied it?

the twenty-first century of (profitable) war (usa)

history, culture, & personal essays

i called everyone in jeffrey epstein’s little black book

ngũgĩ wa thiong’o: three days with a giant of african literature

the man in the iron lung

a mother’s exchange for her daughter’s future

30 years ago, romania deprived thousands of babies of human contact

inside the secretive world of penile enlargement

the promise that tested my parents until the end

greek migrant boat disaster

drowning in lies

‘If they had left us be, we wouldn’t have drowned’

survivors of greek migrant tragedy say coastguard rope toppled boat

greece imposes silence around shipwreck of overcrowded migrant boat

[odinsblog]

While EU officials express their grief over the deadliest shipwreck in recent years, Solomon's analysis exposes the EU hypocrisy: Out of 800 million euros allocated to Greece for border management, only 600,000 euros (0,07%) are for search and rescue. (source)

Authorities practically watched them drown and nothing was done until it was too late

The Greek coastguard claimed it didn’t intervene when a boat carrying asylum seekers and refugees capsized because those on board refused help, leaving as many as 750 people to drown. Activists say Greece delayed aid as those on board pleaded for help for 15+ hours.

[bisexualbailorgana]

thinking about how 500 people, mostly women & children, are still missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of greece and the search and rescue operation seems limited entirely to the greek coastguard who may even be at fault for the disaster. meanwhile 5 billionaires go missing at sea while on a vanity trip and suddenly the us coastguard & navy are on it as well as canada and even france sends a ship from across the atlantic (x). they got the military involved!! for 5 people!! not to mention the submarine search has had live news coverage on the bbc since it began while there’s very little being reported on the migrant boat disaster. like you don’t have to be a genius to see what this says about how the west views migrants and refugees, its almost laughable how obvious it is it’s not even a metaphor at this point!!

[pagan-mushroom]

Me seeing the time has passed for the oxygen to run out for the logitech controller silo tank:

[blue-village]

The Greek government has long been accused of forced returns - pushing people back towards Turkey, where they have crossed from, which is illegal under international law.

But this is the first time the BBC has calculated the number of incidents which allege that fatalities occurred as a result of the Greek coastguard's actions. The 15 incidents we analysed - dated May 2020-23 - resulted in 43 deaths. The initial sources were primarily local media, NGOs and the Turkish coastguard.

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In five of the incidents, migrants said they were thrown directly into the sea by the Greek authorities. In four of those cases they explained how they had landed on Greek islands but were hunted down. In several other incidents, migrants said they had been put onto inflatable rafts without motors which then deflated, or appeared to have been punctured.

One of the most chilling accounts was given by a Cameroonian man, who says he was hunted by Greek authorities after landing on the island of Samos in September 2021. Like all the people we interviewed, he said he was planning to register on Greek soil as an asylum seeker. "We had barely docked, and the police came from behind," he told us. "There were two policemen dressed in black, and three others in civilian clothes. They were masked, you could only see their eyes." He and two others - another from Cameroon and a man from Ivory Coast - were transferred to a Greek coastguard boat, he said, where events took a terrifying turn. “They started with the [other] Cameroonian. They threw him in the water. The Ivorian man said: ‘Save me, I don’t want to die… and then eventually only his hand was above water, and his body was below. "Slowly his hand slipped under, and the water engulfed him." Our interviewee says his abductors beat him. "Punches were raining down on my head. It was like they were punching an animal." And then he says they pushed him, too, into the water - without a life jacket. He was able to swim to shore, but the bodies of the other two - Sidy Keita and Didier Martial Kouamou Nana - were recovered on the Turkish coastline. The survivor’s lawyers are demanding the Greek authorities open a double murder case.

Another man, from Somalia, told the BBC how in March 2021 he had been caught by the Greek army on arrival on the island of Chios, who then handed him to the Greek coastguard. He said the coastguard had tied his hands behind his back, before dropping him into the water. "They threw me zip-tied in the middle of the sea. They wanted me to die," he said. He said he managed to survive by floating on his back, before one of his hands broke free from the ligature. But the sea was choppy, and three in his group died. Our interviewee made it to land where he was eventually spotted by the Turkish coastguard.

In the incident with the highest loss of life - in September 2022 - a boat carrying 85 migrants ran into trouble near the Greek island of Rhodes when its motor cut out. Mohamed, from Syria, told us they rang the Greek coastguard for help - who loaded them onto a boat, returned them to Turkish waters and put them in life rafts. Mohamed says the raft he and his family were given had not had its valve properly closed. "We immediately began to sink, they saw that… They heard us all screaming, and yet they still left us," he told the BBC. "The first child who died was my cousin's son… After that it was one by one. Another child, another child, then my cousin himself disappeared. By the morning seven or eight children had died. "My kids didn't die until the morning… right before the Turkish coastguard arrived."

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An investigative journalist we spoke to based on the island of Samos says she began chatting with a member of the Greek special forces via the dating app Tinder. When he rang her from what he described as a "warship", Romy van Baarsen asked him more about his work - and what happened when his forces spotted a refugee boat. He replied that they "drive them back", and said such orders were "from the minister", adding they would be punished if they failed to stop a boat. Greece has always denied so-called “pushbacks” are taking place.

[nando161mando]

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say - BBC News

[marinaiguess]

if you wanna know about what happened to that sunken ship carrying 750 immigrants (of which around 100 survived), i can tell you but i cannot promise you i can keep my cool.

i’m gonna start biting ohmygosh okay. 

immigrants. refugees is probably the better word. those people took a ship from libye heading to italy. they were trying to leave their country to go to a better place, right? to live under better conditions. but you cannot do that “legally”. i hope you know how it goes. people from that area would travel on road, from turkey and then from greece to wherever they wanted to go. but as of recently, right at the borders of greece and turkey there was a wall built (wish this was a bad joke) by the greek government. the reason: to deter immigrants to pass the borders (since there are a lot of them in our country but that’s no fucking excuse since the EU literally funds the governement for this). and it worked, unfortunately. 

refugees had to find a different means to leave. so? travel overseas. it’s riskier but when you have no other option left, you take what you have. and it’s not the first time this has happened. it’s not the first time refugees have drowned and their bodies were found in greece’s coasts. we’ve mourned many people, many children. 

this time? this time it was different because this is the biggest ship the greek government has ever found “trespassing” their sea borders. (there could be others that were never found you know). the biggest ship with the most people on it. never before have there been 750 people abroad. and never before has a ship like that sunken. 

so what happened? based on what i know and not what the greek media claims, based on the survivors’ and the residents’ claims, the coastguard sinked that overcrowded fishing boat. yeah you heard me right. they towed their ship to that boat, probably in hopes to get it out of the greek sea borders so that malta would have to deal with it. malta’s sea borders weren’t that far away and keep in mind that towing in this case is illegal because it could be fatal (and it was).

so, the coastguard firstly claimed that they hadnt approached the boat until it was near sinking. after the survivors’ spoke their truth, they had to change their initial statement. and they did that quite fast. they said they approached them hours before it sunk in order to maintain their safety and supply the boat with food and water. according to them, the reason why the boat sunk was due to the people who were moving too much and tried to shake off any help given to them. it was dark and it wasn’t windy, no waves big enough to disrupt the boat. 

the greek authorities have lied, twice now, and their claims oppose those of the survivors’. survivors who lost their parents or their children. because governments make their lives harder and harder and when the people try to escape their fate, they realize they dont have the upper hand on the matter. and those humans who dont deserve to be called that, act like they care, announcing a 3-day national mourning. that happened a week ago. i havent seen any government officials talking abt the matter since then. (and ofc the only reason they pretend they care so much is because it’s elections season)

i am so done with the hypocrisy. we know the truth and we want justice to be served. but i really really wish it hadnt come down to this, i wish we didnt have to mourn for all the lost ones.

it isn’t the first time it happened. it isn’t the first time in this year that we have lost people thanks to our government’s incompetency. im tired of this. and im tired of people who vote for them, who back them up and excuse their actions. my heart hurts. it really does. as a kid of immigrants who had to go through hell to move across countries, who risked their lives to have a chance of living peacefully and under better conditions, it hurts. and it hurts even more to know that even if there’s a very very very slight possibility jsutice will be served, those people will never be the same again. justice wont be enough to bring their loved ones back. it fucking hurts.