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The History Hour: Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

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Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

16/11/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean; the demolition of the Ayodha mosque; Wilfred Owen

Rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean; the demolition of the Ayodha mosque; British war poet Wilfred Owen.
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In 2004, a German aid agency ship, Cap Anamur, was sailing to the Suez Canal, when it came across 37 Africans on a sinking rubber boat. The captain, Stefan Schmidt, rescued the men and headed for a port in Sicily to drop them off, but he and his crew were promptly arrested by the Italian authorities. Max Pearson finds out more about the incident and about the migration crisis that faced the European Union in later years.

Also this week, an eye-witness account of secret preparations by Hindu extremists to destroy the mosque in the Indian city of Ayodha in 1992; a grassroots struggle against pollution in America; and memories of the British war poet Wilfred Owen.

(Photo: the German aid agency ship Cap Anamur in 2004. Credit: Antonello NUSCA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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