A boat carrying refugees has sank off Greek island Farmakonisi near Turkey’s coast, killing 13 people – including seven children early on Wednesday.
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The UN agency said that one in every two of those crossing the Mediterranean this year, representing half a million people, were Syrians escaping war. More than 200 have drowned in the Aegean and over 90,000 have been rescued.
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This means that 400 more people lost their lives compared to previous year while reports indicate that the number of fatalities is continuing to rise as 20 new deaths in the eastern Mediterranean have been registered since December 18.
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The UNHCR says about 80 percent of the refugees and migrants have crossed the Aegean from Turkey to Greece, which does not have the capacity to accommodate them.
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Concern and suspicion about migrants is based on stereotypes, fear of national identity loss and a “post-9/11 security syndrome”, said William Lacy Swing, director general of the Geneva-based intergovernmental IOM.
While numbers for next year are impossible to predict, Reuters reported: “The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR is planning for arrivals to continue at a similar rate in 2016”. On Monday, the number of migrants who have crossed into Europe this year reached 1 million.
A refugee mother goes past a crowd with her child at Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, May 8, 2015.
In a sign of the growing fallout from the migration crisis, Greece recalled its ambassador to the Czech Republic after a number of disparaging comments out of Prague, including several about Greece’s handling of the flow of people from Turkey.
“We have just published the figures passing the one million mark for the number of refugees and other migrants heading north into Europe, primarily out of Syria, but other areas, also”. The figure includes more than 34,000 arrivals by land from Turkey into neighboring Greece and Bulgaria, or only about 3.5 percent of the total this year.
It covered entries via six European Union nations – Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus.
A joint IOM and UNHCR statement said found a “more co-ordinated European response” was beginning to take shape.
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He called for European countries to recognize the positive contributions made by refugees and migrants, and to honor what he said were “core European values: protecting lives, upholding human rights and promoting tolerance and diversity”. The majority of the migrants (816,752) arrived in Greece, followed by Italy with 150,317.
