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Drift-Backs in the Aegean Sea
- oriettaxx 4y agofrom the presentation in https://act.progressive.international/aegean https://act.progressive.international/aegean (which was first posted here): "Today, Forensic Architecture has released the largest trove of data on drift-backs by the Greek government in the Aegean Sea, revealing a ’systematic’ and illegal campaign to brutalize and abandon asylum-seekers approaching Greek shores. Council member Eyal Weizman writes: "Our mapping reveals Greece’s Aegean border to Turkey to be a cruel frontier of violence and lawlessness on an unprecedented proportion. Our investigation documents the way in which the most vulnerable are brutally and arrogantly pushed into boats and then abandoned to the waves that would drown them, or — if they are lucky — carry them to the same Turkish coasts from where they fled." here a video presentation https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/drift-backs-in-the-aegean-sea https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/drift-backs-... I must say I am pretty shocked! I know people from the Dodecannese do their really best to help refugees, I think coast guard have bad orders to follow