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"They want to see us drown" – Survivors of a push back operation in the Aegean Sea report to the Watch The Med Alarm Phone

17 November 2014

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"Witness Mr D. reports of a push-back operation by the Greek coastguard when he and 32 other passengers, all of Syrian nationality and including a pregnant woman, were leaving Cesme in Turkey to reach the Greek island of Chios on a rubber vessel in the night of the 25th-26th of October 2014. The Greek coastguard intercepted the vessel and later boarded it, then took away the gas tank of the engine and punctured the vessel. The coastguard left the vessel behind in Turkish waters, without an engine and a hole in the vessel. The passengers were able to call the Turkish coastguard which rescued them and brought them back to Cesme."

See the full text: "They want to see us drown" – Survivors of a push back operation in the Aegean Sea report to the Watch The Med Alarm Phone (Watch the MED, link)

And see: Safety at sea (link) and: The sea as frontier (link)

See also: On board the tiny fleet saving terrified migrants from an angry Mediterranean (Guardian, link)

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