Death at sea: Syrian migrants film their perilous voyage to Europe
From the Guardian:
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7vX4ZBGqus]This is the story of five friends – Moaaz, Majd, Rasha, Kinan and Khalid – who fled war-torn Syria to embark on a perilous trip to reach Europe. So far this year an estimated 3,000 migrants have died attempting this same journey. On 16 August 2014 they set off from Syria to Lebanon, where they caught a flight to Algeria, to begin their journey
Who are the people who die in the Mediterranean on an almost daily basis? And why don’t we care? The Guardian has worked with a team of reporters from five other European newspapers to track a very 21st-century odyssey. Read about the people behind the statistics HERE.
