THE evidence is everywhere. Boat loads of emaciated people adrift on the Andaman Sea begging for water; exhausted refugees staggering out of the surf on Greek islands, having survived the smugglers’ boats; desperate families breaking down the barbed wire fence separating Turkey and Syria, to escape the battles being fought a few miles away.
The media is full of stories about people being enslaved in jungle camps in South-East Asia and buried in mass graves. Those who make it from Libya tell dreadful stories of beheadings, torture and rape.
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