SIEVX Deja Vu

Deja Vu - The Mediterranean Solution?

Has Italy's Berlusconi been learning from Australia's John Howard?

* A government under pressure to control a sharp surge in illegal immigration

* Plans to house asylum seekers in off shore 'transit camps'

* A policy already in place to turn back boats before they enter territorial waters

* Close cooperation between authorities in countries of departure and intended destination to deter and disrupt people smuggling

* Calls from the right to shoot at asylum seekers boats to deter them from coming

* Boat grossly overloaded and in poor repair

* Boat sinks about 60 nautical miles from land

* Hundreds drown and only dozens survive

Sources:
'Shoot asylum seekers' http://www.globalfire.tv/nj/03en/race/shoot_them.htm

'Italian Foreign Minister proposes maritime control centre in Malta', Chris Sultana, Malta Business Weekly, 26 June 2003 http://www.maltabusinessweekly.com/newsview.asp?id=5293

'Search for 200 after refugee boat sinks', Sophie Arie, The Guardian, 21 June 2003 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,982180,00.html

mirrored at: http://sievx.com/articles/psdp/2003/20030621SophieArie.html

'Some 200 clandestine immigrants feared dead in waters off Tunisia', http://www.utusan.com.my, 21 June 2003

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/content.asp?y=2003&dt=0622&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=World&pg=wo_08.htm

mirrored at: http://sievx.com/articles/psdp/2003/20030621Utusan.html

'Refugee crisis on Lampedusa', Jonathan Miller, Channel4.com, 22 June 2003 http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/06/week_3/22_island.html

mirrored at: http://sievx.com/articles/psdp/2003/20030622JonathanMiller.html

For further information on another asylum seeker boat that conveniently sank see http://sievx.com

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