Researchers participating in the reconstruction of the 2011 “Left-to-die boat” case in
which 63 migrants lost their life under NATO’s eyes, summarize three years of
inconclusive demands for disclosure and justice. As the European Council
addresses the EU’s long-term migration policy, they say deaths of migrants at
sea will continue short of ending the EU’s policy of closure towards
non-European migrants.
Two years
ago, we published a report on what came to be known as the “left-to-die” boat
case. Co-authored with the architectural office SITU Studio, the report used
imaging, mapping, and modelling technologies in order to produce a visual and
spatial picture of how, in March 2011, sixty-three migrants lost their lives in
the Central Mediterranean while attempting to reach the small Italian island of
Lampedusa from the coast of Libya.
