The Tunisian authorities abandoned these people at the border in the heat without water, food or medicine, the Libyan National Human Rights Commission told the German Agency.
The lifeless bodies of 27 migrants, including children, were found on Tuesday in a desert area on the Tunisian-Libyan border, according to a Libyan human rights group.
The Tunisian authorities abandoned these people at the border in the heat without water, food or medicine, the Libyan National Human Rights Commission told the German Agency.
According to the same source, the Tunisian authorities drive people to the remote desert area at the border and leave them to their own devices.
According to Libyan media reports, children are among the dead.
The nationalities of the victims are not yet known.
Complaints that the Tunisian authorities transport migrants to the borders with Libya (east) and Algeria (west) and abandon them to their fate are causing increasing concern to international organizations and NGOs. It is estimated that at least 200 people were rescued in July.
At the beginning of the month, the UN called “to stop these deportations”.
The non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported last month mass deportations of hundreds of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from Tunis, including children and pregnant women, who are forced to walk long distances in dangerous conditions.
Tunisia seems to have succeeded Libya, becoming the focus of the effort of thousands of people, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, to reach Europe.
Hostility towards immigrants in the north African country intensified after Tunisian President Kais Sagand’s February 21 speech in which he condemned the arrival of “hordes of immigrants” who he said had come to the country to “alter its demographic composition.” . He accused immigrants of practicing “violence”, committing “crimes” and displaying “unacceptable behaviour”.
Since then, hundreds of irregular migrants have lost their jobs in the informal sector, whatever shelter they had found, and dozens of attacks against migrants have been reported across the country. Two deaths have been recorded in incidents of this nature to date.
The situation for migrants in neighboring Libya, where the civil war has not yet ended, is no less precarious: NGOs report that they face risks such as torture, enslavement or sexual abuse.
Source :Skai
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