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In the past five years thirty thousand people, mostly young, have been kidnapped and enslaved. Among them an estimated ten thousand people have been killed and an unknown number have suffered unspeakable torture and sexual abuse. Although largely ignored the chronicles of death camps in the Sinai desert never seem to find an ending. In the dark caves, in the house basements turned into prisons, mankind demonstrates an atavistic cruelty, caused by greed, racial and religious hatred.
Among the world's hotly contested, obsessively controlled, and often dangerous borders, none is deadlier than the Mediterranean Sea. Since 2000, at least 25,000 people have lost their lives attempting to reach Italy and the rest of Europe, most by drowning in the Mediterranean. Every day, unauthorized migrants and refugees bound for Europe put their lives in the hands of maritime smugglers, while fishermen, diplomats, priests, bureaucrats, armed forces sailors, and hesitant bystanders waver between indifference and intervention—with harrowing results. In Crimes of Peace, Maurizio Albahari investigates why the Mediterranean Sea is the world's deadliest border, and what alternatives could im...
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