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    Emil Lazarian
  • 3 years ago
    • Categories: 2023

Hundreds of Pakistanis dead in Mediterranean migrant boat disaster

 10:47,

YEREVAN, JUNE 19, ARMENPRESS. More than 300 Pakistani nationals have been killed in the June 14 sinking of a overcrowded fishing trawler off the coast of Greece, CNN reported citing a statement by a Pakistani official.

The chairman of Pakistan’s Senate, Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani, disclosed the numbers in a statement Sunday. 

Greek authorities have yet to confirm Pakistan’s death toll.

About 750 men, women and children were on the packed boat when it capsized last week, the United Nations Migration Agency (IOM) said, killing hundreds and making the tragedy one of the worst in the Mediterranean Sea, according to the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS