Friday, March 4, 2011

Hundreds of Bangladeshi border crossing

A row of five to seven kilometers in which the faces are repeated. Hundreds of Bangladeshis walk from the Libyan border to the camp that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set up to provide medical care and shelter. Loaded with backpacks, luggage and clear signs of dehydration, these Bangladeshis are beginning to falter.

Ambulances, dropper, assist them in their flight path. Refugees are the same yesterday waiting for the right of the border, behind a wall bordering the road. Belong to the constant flow of refugees has caused conflict in Libya. A vast expanse in the Libyan side of the border is home to hundreds of people in crowded conditions, they expect to leave the country, according to testimony this morning some Bangladeshis have crossed the border.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) fears that it is preventing civilians flee from Libya to Tunisia, which would explain why the flow of people crossing the border is 2,000 people, of which 10000-15000 crossed yesterday. "The Libyan side of the border is now controlled by pro-government forces with heavily armed men," said agency spokeswoman revealed, Melissa Fleming.

The UNHCR representative said his agency anticipates that a reduction in military control at the border and on the roads, "could resume a massive exodus." The evacuation of civilians from the border has accelerated in recent days, but an estimated 12,500 people still need international assistance.

The Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI) has confirmed that the three daily flights from the Tunisian border to Cairo with Egyptian refugees are functioning normally and that there is provided an aircraft with more capacity than the current (180 passengers) for the operation more effective evacuation.

The Italian government has provided humanitarian aid ship that will sail this afternoon from the port of Catania in Sicily, heading to the city of Benghazi, a measure approved yesterday by the Executive of Silvio Berlusconi. In turn, the foreign minister, Franco Frattini, has said that an Italian team checked the site on which to install another camp for assistance in the Tunisian side of the border with Libya.

The Spanish financial aid is 800,000 euros, 500,000 for UNHCR and 300,000 for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which today has chartered two planes with 20 tons of aid. The figure is far from the five million approved by Italy and closer to the million provided by Belgium. The amount announced by the European Commission is 30 million.

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