{"id":1511,"date":"2015-07-20T20:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refugeeresearch.net\/ms\/km\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2015-07-20T20:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:39:57","slug":"stowaways-and-crimes-aboard-a-scofflaw-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refugeeresearch.net\/ms\/km\/2015\/07\/20\/stowaways-and-crimes-aboard-a-scofflaw-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"STOWAWAYS AND CRIMES ABOARD A SCOFFLAW SHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WORLD<\/a><\/span>|<\/span>Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship (The New York Times)<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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STOWAWAYS AND CRIMES ABOARD A SCOFFLAW SHIP<\/h1>\n

Few places on Earth are as free from legal oversight as the high seas. One ship has been among the most persistent offenders.<\/p>\n

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By IAN URBINA<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>JULY 17, 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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The rickety raft made of empty oil drums and a wooden tabletop rolled and pitched with the waves while tied to the side of the Dona Liberta, a 370-foot cargo ship anchored far from land in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa.<\/div>\n

\u201cGo down!\u201d yelled a knife-wielding crew member, forcing two Tanzanian stowaways overboard and onto the raft. As angry clouds gathered on the horizon, he cut the line.<\/p>\n

Gambling on a better life, the stowaways had run out of luck. They had already spent nine days at sea, most of the time hiding in the Dona Liberta\u2019s engine room, crouched deep in oily water. But as they climbed down onto the slick raft, the men, neither of whom knew how to swim, nearly slid into the ocean before lashing themselves together to the raft with a rope.<\/p>\n

As the Dona Liberta slowly disappeared, David George Mndolwa, one of the abandoned pair, recalled thinking: \u201cThis is the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

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