Twenty refugees found dead off Crete ‘show repression of the uprooted,’ say Greek communists

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Authorities recovered 12 bodies from a boat found sailing south of the island, while 18 were rescued alive by a Morocco-flagged cargo ship. Another seven bodies were found on a separate boat which had been identified at sea a few days before, when 28 people were rescued and one dead body found in the water but the boat was apparently unreachable due to bad weather.

The maritime journey from Libya to Crete has become a major route for refugees, but large numbers drown, turning the Mediterranean into a “sea of the dead” in the KKE’s phrase. It blamed the “government’s anti-immigration policy, in accordance with the equally anti-immigration and reactionary EU guidelines” denying people safe routes for the tragedy.