Four held over Austria truck tragedy as migrant deaths mount

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo7! News / AFP

Hungary said Friday it had arrested four people over the discovery of the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants, believed to be Syrian, in an abandoned truck in Austria.

Hungarian police said three of the suspects held over the latest grim tragedy involving migrants seeking refuge in Europe were Bulgarians and one was Afghan.

Thursday's grisly discovery of the truck on a motorway near the Slovakia and Hungary borders -- a rare occurrence on land, with most migrant deaths taking place at sea -- sent shockwaves through Europe.

The news of the arrests came as Libyan rescue workers recovered 76 bodies from yet another capsized boat in the Mediterranean crammed with people fleeing conflict and hardship in the Middle East and Africa.

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[Botany]

1. thanx a big old shit pile to w and Cheney for starting a war in Iraq that gave us ISIS

and now 10s of thousands are trying to flee from the horror of ISIS and wars.

" ... decomposing bodies of 71 migrants, believed to be Syrian ..."

But please everybody let's look @ Hillary's emails.

[Truprogressive85]

2. Explain

as much I hate Bush and Cheney

Libya and Syria are on Obama watch

All 3 had/have dictators (saddam,gadaffi, Assad)but none of them compare to what Isis is doing

[sabrina 1]

3. Their goal, if you have ever read any of the neocons' manifestos, Micheal Ledeen eg, was to

'turn the Middle East into a Glass Parking lot'. These neocons have so far managed to escape justice for the horrors they have brought down on millions of innocent people. Libya and Syria were on their list of countries to destroy.

So while Obama, actually it was France, who now refuses to take in refugees from the country they persuaded NATO, not that NATO ever needs much persuading, that pushed to invade Libya, did unfortunately go along. The day Congress gave Bush/Cheney the power to begin this horror was the day the fate of the seven countries on their list were sealed.

Someone someday will have to pay for the human tragedies, the war crimes, the torture that was unleashed on that part of the world.

Everyone who did not try to stop it in the beginning, bears responsibility for these continuing horrors.

I don't see many of the old Libya invasion cheerleaders around these days.

The racism involved in our FP is so blatant I wonder why all those who claim to be so concerned about this issue, never seem to notice what we are doing to African nations, and ME nations.

This is so incredibly sad and horrible. We created such horrific nightmares in their countries they were willing to risk anything to escape them.

Until some of them, Blair too and Sarkozy and all of our 'allies' who set this in motion, are brought to justice, we can never claim the moral authority we still try to claim again.

[Truprogressive85]

4. Thank you

For the explanation

Innocent lives have been lost and people are fleeing their homeland

[Botany]

5. It is called "blowback"

w's unneeded war in Iraq and his utter lack of understanding about things
allowed the birth of al Qaeda in Iraq which then morphed into ISIS. Saddam
was a no good murdering bastard but he did not like al Qaeda and used to shoot
them on the spot.

Those poor people who died in Austria were from Syria and were fleeing
ISIS in Syria.

[cpwm17]

6. The three Bulgarians and an Afghan were arrested in Hungary.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34096214

The victims - 59 men, eight women and four children - were found in the abandoned vehicle on Thursday.
They are thought to be mainly Syrians. Officials said they had probably died of suffocation two days earlier....

Police suspect the vehicle found its way there as part of a Bulgarian-Hungarian human smuggling network....

So far this month more than 40,000 asylum seekers, the majority of them Syrian, have arrived in Hungary from the Balkans. Many fall prey to smugglers who wait near the refugee camps, offering to take them at a high price on to western Europe, our correspondent says....

Mr Ban (UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon) said he was "horrified and heartbroken" at the latest loss of life. "A large majority of people undertaking these arduous and dangerous journeys are refugees fleeing from places such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan," he said.

Just like in Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, when powerful nations destroy weaker nations this is often the result. (Nixon bombed the shit out of Cambodia.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Syria is a war between its authoritarian government and mainly Islamist groups

The deaths people are fleeing is causing overwhelmingly by those groups, not outside nations. The fighting started when some Syrians rebelled against Assad as part of the 'Arab Spring'.

[cpwm17]

9. Syria also has a huge refugee population from Iraq

and IS started in Iraq. These greatly contribute to Syria's problems. Plus the flood of US weapons doesn't help.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Austria migrant lorry found with critically ill children

Three children have been found in a critical condition after being rescued from a lorry in Austria that contained 26 migrants, police said.

The lorry was stopped in Braunau district and the Romanian driver was arrested after a chase.

Those inside were said to be from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
...
In the latest incident - which happened early on Friday but was not reported until Saturday - the three children were taken to hospital suffering from severe dehydration.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34095949