DW Finds Migrants Drowning off Libya, Forgetting Who Broke Libya
The story focuses on the immediate tragedy: people desperately fleeing across the Mediterranean. But it rarely grapples with the 'why' beyond vague notions of 'instability.' The silence on the 2011 NATO intervention, championed by figures like then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is deafening. That intervention, ostensibly to prevent a massacre, plunged Libya into a failed state, shattered its
government, and opened a floodgate for human trafficking and migration routes we now see ending in catastrophe. So, while DW reports on the symptoms, the historical architects of Libya's collapse—and thus, these migrant deaths—remain conveniently unexamined. It's almost as if some stories are too uncomfortable for mainstream consumption, lest we question the 'humanitarian' interventions of the
past. How many more nameless bodies will wash ashore before we acknowledge the role Western policy played in creating the conditions for their flight?