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The Mediterranean has become a floating cemetery for African immigrants: Kitti Sabune, chairman of The Afro Swedish National Organisation, Lena Sawyer, and Mekonnen Tesfahuney--all based in Sweden--are fed up with the treatment given to African immigrants who try to cross into Europe from Morocco and want Africans everywhere to protest and demand their right of mobility under the UN Human Rights Charter.

Publication: New African
Publication Date: 01-DEC-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Mediterranean has become a floating cemetery for African immigrants: Kitti Sabune, chairman of The Afro Swedish National Organisation, Lena Sawyer, and Mekonnen Tesfahuney--all based in Sweden--are fed up with the treatment given to African immigrants who try to cross into Europe from Morocco and want Africans everywhere to protest and demand their right of mobility under the UN Human Rights Charter.(Opinion)

Article Excerpt
The Netherlands-based NGO, United, has documented the death of 6,336 people who tried to cross from North Africa into Europe between 1993-2005. This translates into three deaths every two days over a 12-year period. And these are just the documented deaths--nobody knows how many more have died without a trace. What is worse is that there is no end in sight for the deaths and tragedies taking place at the gates of Europe. In October this year, 14 people died, either shot by Spanish border police or trampled when would-be immigrants stormed the razoredged walls enclosing Ceuta and Mellilia, the Spanish colonial enclaves in Morocco.

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The decades-long indifference displayed by Europe and the "international community", a euphemism for the exclusive club of "white" nations, and the grim drama being played out in Ceuta and Mellilia encapsulate the globalised apartheid...

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