From near death to life in limbo
Sunday, April 30, 2006
ZOUERAT, Mauritania -- There are no roads to this Sahara Desert town, just tracks in the sand. Yet it has become a holding tank for victims of people-smugglers -- Asians who set out to find a better life in Europe and ended up dumped in the desert.
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