Thread: Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert

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It's a story which beggars belief and I can't confirm it's veracity. However the NYP and other agencies are running with it.



Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert over the past 14 months, including pregnant women
and children, expelling them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under a blistering sun.
Some never make it out alive.

Key Points:

• Algeria has forced more than 13,000 migrants to travel across the Sahara without food and water
• Algeria's mass expulsions have picked up since October 2017
• The International Organisation for Migration estimates more than 30,000 people could have died since 2014

The expelled migrants can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds, appearing at first as specks in the distance under
temperatures of up to 48 degrees Celsius.

In Niger, where the majority head, the lucky ones limp across a desolate 15-kilometre no-man's-land to the border village of Assamaka.

Tragic
Must be a pretty awful origin to risk such hardships, easy to scorn the economic migrants but I'm sure many of us have moved for better opps albeit legally.

Sad that often the fit young and skilled leave leaving the host country bereft, such has been the fate of Ireland and NZ in the past and I'm attending a conference on the topic soon.

I know I get pissed off when the tv net are off for a few minutes and cannot remember last time I was too hot probably Riyadh at 54 many moons ago or -26 in Finland in 2000

There is no quick fix, unless the rich prepared to kill/imprison send back every single one, there will be hope of better life in EU or USA , Oz is luckier as an island, NZ of course has already had the cream of the Pacific Ireland and Australian talent

Originally Posted by Neverna

How did they get there in the first place? Presumably walking the same route they are being walked back. If they can walk there, they can walk back. No biggy.

You have to remember the average African IQ is about 70, some of them could not find the way home.

Originally Posted by Scottish Gary

I suppose that depends on your level of compassion and where you stand as a decent human being.

Compassion is over rated, usually it's just virtue signalling by people who post sympathy on the internet. These rat bags are usually exploited by the media who present emotional stories about their plight to replace reason, they love to get the kiddies in a pic of course, can't argue with that. What are they doing there and why did they leave home? probably think they are on their way to Europe for handouts like the other couple of million before them.