Muslims on refugee boat throw Christians overboard for being non-Muslims

[Velasco]

The moral responsibility for their faith would still be on the human traffickers. No country is responsible for saving people in international waters.

This is broadly speaking true. Nevertheless...

Nevertheless Pope Francis summed up in one word what has to be said about the attitude of EU countries toward people drowning in international waters: vergogna (shame).

The quote below is for politicus and likeminded people on this issue.

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2013/documents/papa-francesco_20130708_omelia-lampedusa.html

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[Velasco]

I wonder if ingemann is talking authoritatively of "dirt poor but mostly peaceful" places or what the hell he's referring to. I'd like to know what should be understood by violence. A recent case of an asylum seeker from Cameroon comes to my mind, certain woman whose life was threatened because of her sexual orientation (lesbian) and whose application would have been expeditiously rejected by the Spanish authorities if her case wouldn't have appeared in media. You only have to ask to yourselves how many applicants in similar situations are rejected by the 'civilised' Europe because, see, they are just "dirt poor".

Do the last shipwrecks deserve a single word from some of our posters?