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Malta was primarily responsible for the rescuing of 200 people, including 60 children, who drowned in 2013, however, it was Italy that failed to protect their right to life, the UN Human Rights Committee has found.  The October 11 incident, remembered by many as the Lampedusa tragedy, had seen the Armed Forces of Malta scrambling to rescue 143 migrants, while another 56 people were taken to the Italian island. The boat full of some 400 Syrians and Palestinians had capsized after taking in water south of Lampedusa and soon after, rapporteur of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Tineke Strik had called for an investigation into alleged delays in the rescue operation.

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