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

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

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

asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea where thousands have died, mostly

from Africa and the Middle East as they attempt to reach Europe.

The film, Dead Calm, finds the Greek Coast Guard cause the deaths of as many as 43 migrants in the

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

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

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

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

and delaying rescue missions of those adrift at sea.

Several eyewitnesses featured in the film corroborate the disturbing accounts.

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

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

After crossing from Turkey, he's now a refugee.

He's now a refugee. There were two policemen dressed in black and three others in civilian clothes.

With three other other in civilian clothes. With three other gah, that was a civil.

Piankagulier,

they were masked. Ibrahim says he was beaten and strip searched,

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

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

When I left the jublai is a balance with the Cam in our.

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