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The Left-To-Die-Boat

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Resource contributed by: Stefan Kruse Jørgensen

The Left-To-Die-Boat, Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, 11 April, 2012.

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-left-to-die-boat

“In March 2011, 72 passengers left the Libyan coast heading in the direction of Italy on board a small rubber boat at the time of NATO’s military intervention in Libya. Despite several distress signals relaying their location, as well as repeated interactions with at least one military helicopter and a military ship, they were left to drift for 14 days. As a result of the inaction of all state actors involved, only nine of the passengers survived. By combining their testimonies with wind and sea-current data as well as satellite imagery, Forensic Oceanography reconstructed the liquid traces of this event, producing a report that served as the basis of several legal complaints.”