Boat tahriib survivor Anwar Ali

[FieldMarshalMenace]

"We paid $2k to board the boat from Misrata, Libya. We were 30 people on a flimsy boat. The captain of the boat was a fellow Somali who the smugglers trained for 2 weeks. He had little experience since he was briefly a fisherman back home. At first the sea was calm and we were sailing smoothly. Several hours later we realized our "captain" was disoriented on where to head the boat to, our destination was a little Island in the Mediterranean that is part of Italy. The GPS he was using was confusing. We become much more concerned once the engine of the boat gave out. The Captain reassured us that he can fix it. Two hours of no engine led to eight hours. On the third day people started running out of water and food. On the 4th day people started dying of thirst. About this time some guys in the boat came out with knives and started robbing those who they knew had water and food. Then this girl went crazy and started screaming nonstop. We yelled at her to be quiet but to no avail so we decided to throw her into the see because she was driving us crazy. So right around this time we were down to 17 people and we were very angry with the captain so when we realized he got money from the smugglers by taking this responsibility even though he had little knowledge of how to navigate the boat. Out of frustration we decided to kill him. We stabbed him and then we threw him overboard but he knew how to swim so he came up in the water and on purposefully tried to overturn our boat. We hit his hands with our knives until we rendered him handless. Afterwards we prepare to die. I then became unconscious. I woke up in a hospital hospital ( rescued by a passing cruise ship). I couldn't talk for two weeks. Out of the original 30 people on the boat only 9 of us survived" told by Anwar Ali from Somalia.

[SecretAgent]

[FieldMarshalMenace]

Man the "captain" was a realist nigga ever, they stabbed him and threw him overboard yet he was like "y'all niggaz gonna die with"..I don't why I have this image of Dr Yalaxow

[Casanova25]

sad story

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

I struggle to find any empathy for these people.

[FieldMarshalMenace]

I struggle to find any empathy for these people.

few of them we should not have any empathy for but majority is forced to taken upon this extremely dangerous journey do to lack of opportunities back. The only man that can understand their plight is a man who has visited the motherland...like I said though, few of them come from a well to do families and have no reason to take on this journey....Btw, LiquidH its easy for you to declare you opinion about these people from the comfort of your living room sofa..otherwise you would have afforded them the benefit of the doubt, you must remember that in Somalia the unemployment rate is 80%