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"Dead Calm": Witnesses Tell BBC Documentary How Greek Coastguard Threw Migrants Overboard to Their Deaths

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We look at a damning BBC exposé on the deadly crackdown on asylum seekers by Greek authorities.

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0:00.0

This is a war and peace report. I'm Amy Goodman. We look now at a damning

0:11.0

exposay of the deadly crackdown on asylum seekers by Greek authorities.

0:15.6

A new BBC investigation reveals evidence of the Greek Coast Guard abducting and abandoning

0:20.8

asylum seekers in the finds the Greek Coast Guard cause the deaths of as many as 43 migrants in the

0:35.3

Mediterranean over a period of three years including of nine asylum seekers

0:39.5

who'd reach Greek soil but were taken by the Greek Coast Guard back out to sea then thrown overboard.

0:46.1

The investigation analyzes at least 15 incidents between 2020 and 23, verifying reports made by humanitarian aid groups which have long accused Greek

0:56.2

officials of international crimes as they target asylum seekers, often sabotaging

1:01.3

and delaying rescue missions of those adrift at sea.

1:06.2

Several eyewitnesses featured in the film corroborate the disturbing accounts.

1:12.2

This is a clip of dead calm that features Ibrahim, a Cameroonian migrant

1:18.1

who says he was hunted by Greek authorities after arriving on the Greek island of Samos in 2021.

1:27.0

After crossing from Turkey, he's now a refugee. They were masked. Ibrahim says he was beaten and strip searched,

1:45.0

and that the Greek Coast Guard took him and two other men out to see.

1:50.0

They started with the Cameroonian. They threw him in the water.

1:55.0

When I left the horizon balance with the Camarne down no.

2:00.0

The Ivorian said,

2:03.0

Save me, I don't want to die, save me.

2:06.0

You should be a force in quay up to me.

2:09.0

An incredible strength animated me.

2:11.0

I survived.

2:12.0

He swam to safety, but the other two men died. We've heard

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