“Smuggling and trafficking in innocent Somalis must stop,” says UN Expert after new boat disaster in Gulf Aden
GENEVA, Switzerland, February 14, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The UN Independent Expert on the situation of Human Rights in Somalia, Shamsul Bari, today expressed deep shock over a new boat disaster in the Gulf of Aden that claimed the life of at least 11 Somali people while another are still 34 missing. “Smuggling and trafficking in persons in Somalia has been a sad facet of the Somali conflict,” said Mr. Bari, who reported extensively on the plight of Somali boat people in a 2009 report* to the Human Rights...
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