Who's Really Killing the Migrants of the Mediterranean?
Smugglers send desperate human cargo to sea with just enough fuel to reach the shipping lanes, cynically exploiting the sailors' code of honor for rescues
3,500 Migrants Died in Sea Crossings in 2014: UN
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It isn't Europe. But Europe is playing into the murderers' hands.
Shamed into action by a boat disaster that's now appearing on cable news as the worst shipwreck in Mediterranean history, politicians from the 28 European Union nations will meet again in Brussels on Thursday to iron out the specifics of several responses that were proposed at an emergency meeting on Monday in Luxembourg.