WORLDMAGNUM: LIBYA -- FINAL MASS EVACUATION on SHIPS from BANGHAZI (UNHCR)

Описание: WORLDMAGNUM: 08 March 2011 -- UNHCR: UN Refugee Agency -- Libya - A group of Bangladeshi workers left the coastal Libya town of Benghazi by boat, fut some Somalis are not so fortunate; The ship is ferrying them from Benghazi to the Egyptian port of Alexandria. From there they will make the onward journey to Bangladesh.

These migrant workers are taking the last ship out and finally heading home.

They have been waiting for five days for this chance to get out of Libya.

SOUNDBITE (English) Marep Khanali, Bangladeshi Worker:
"Now I go my country, because Libya is not good. I need to go my country because I'm so afraid in Libya and I need to my family."

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is helping process these men out of the country. They are mostly Bangladeshis, but also other nationalities - Sudanese, Iraqis and Lebanese amongst them.

Many had their passports withheld by employers and needed the support of their governments to leave the country.

But others are not so fortunate. Somali refugees watch and wait as every other group is rescued by their respective embassies. But they have no government to assist them, and their country is too insecure to return to.

SOUNDBITE (English) Abdi Malik Mohammed, Somali Worker:
"Since we came here we did not see any ship, any transportation came for us, that's why we are worrying about everything. We feel alone actually."

For now this is the last mass evacuation from Benghazi.

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