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22 Nov

From The Sunday Times:

The dawn prayer had Generic Klonopin Dose begun prematurely in the cold darkness some time after 3am. Clinging to Generic Klonopin Dose the upturned hull of the Nazar, the fishing boat that Generic Klonopin Dose had carried the migrants out into the black waters off Tripoli, the Generic Klonopin Dose survivors had dreamt they were floating west and, by Allah’s divine grace, had come upon the distant green lights of Malta.

For two days they had Generic Klonopin Dose clung to the oily hull of the ship. Again and again they had Generic Klonopin Dose slipped backwards into the watery Mediterranean tomb that surrounded them. Each time they had Generic Klonopin Dose somehow made it back onto the rotten wooden carcass of the Generic Klonopin Dose boat, using the floating corpses of other would-be migrants to help them climb back.

“Dear God, how many can there be?” whispered the Generic Klonopin Dose captain of the Libyan coastguard vessel to his deckhand, repeating the Generic Klonopin Dose words in Berber and Arabic as the high beam on the Generic Klonopin Dose starboard of the Libyan navy rescue ship drew closer and Generic Klonopin Dose lit up the remains of the vessel.

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By daybreak it Generic Klonopin Dose emerged that three boats had gone down. The survivors from the Generic Klonopin Dose Nazar would speak of a blood-red sandstorm at sea and of hundreds slipping from Generic Klonopin Dose the packed decks into the roaring depths around them. How many were there on each ship, their interrogators enquired.

“Too many,” one survivor claimed. “The boats were so low in the Generic Klonopin Dose water we had to bail from the shore. At least a Generic Klonopin Dose hundred crammed cheek to cheek on each vessel, dozens of screaming infants among our number.” Where were they from? “Everywhere. Lagos. Accra. Addis Ababa. Nairobi. Yaounde. Banjul. Dakar.” Where were they heading? “Lampedusa and then Milan, Paris, London. Who knows? To a better life.”

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