"I'm a neurosurgeon, imagine if your son had a life-threatening injury: what would you do if I told you that it wasn't my duty to stop the bleeding?". Ten years after October 3 and 11 shipwrecks, survivor Mazen Dahhan addresses a message to the Italian Navy officers who ignored the distress calls from a boat full of kids off the island of Lampedusa

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The shocking communications before October 11, 2013, shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa. Italian Navy ship Libra was only an hour away from the vessel in distress, but was ordered to go off. The boat capsized after five hours of pleading for help. Among the 480 passengers on board, who were fleeing from the war in Syria, 268 perished, including 60 kids. Most of their bodies have never been recovered.

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