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Yemen says 32 migrants drowned after crew forced them overboard
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 06 - 04 - 2007


Human traffickers forced at knifepoint
some 300 Africans to jump into the sea off Yemen early
Friday, causing at least 32 migrants to drown, according to
a Yemeni security official.
The Africans _ mostly Ethiopians and Somalis _ were packed
into two rickety boats that had crossed the Gulf of Aden
from Somalia when their crews forced them overboard as they
approached the Yemeni coast, the official said, speaking on
condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to
talk to the media.
The official reported the survivors as saying that those
who stood up to the crew got stabbed and beaten and were
then thrown overboard, according to AP
The incident is the latest in a series of cases of abuse
of would-be migrants trying to flee the Horn of Africa for
Yemen. The government said Thursday that about 5,000
illegal migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia had arrived in
Yemen since the beginning of the year, and that 395
passengers on such boats had perished. Many of the
casualties were slain by traffickers, or they drowned after
their boats sank or they were forced overboard, a
government official said.
On Friday morning, the Yemeni authorities found a total of
268 survivors on two different beaches about 12 kilometers
(7 miles) apart in the southern province of Shabwa, the
official said. They included 120 Somalis and 145
Ethiopians.
The authorities also found 32 corpses that had washed
ashore. A number of passengers on the two boats are
missing, the official said.
Those migrants who do manage to land in Yemen without
being detained go to the cities such as Aden and San'a, the
capital, where they work as laborers for less than a US$1 a
day, according to the government. Women migrants and young
girls work as domestic servants, while young boys beg in
the streets.
-- SPA


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