Ten years after tragedy, tiny Lampedusa at centre of migration crisis again
9/20/23
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from The Guardian,
9/20/23:
More than 11,000 people have landed on the island in recent days – a decade on from when hundreds were killed in a shipwreck…Now, as the 10th anniversary of the tragedy nears, Lampedusa – for years the first port of call for people making the perilous journey by sea from north Africa – and the memories of that night have been thrust back into the spotlight after more than 11,000 people, almost double the island’s population, landed on the island within six days.
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