2005 Assault
On September 29, 2005, the border-fence was assaulted by hundreds of migrants simultaneously, grabbing international media attention. Caught between the Spanish rubber bullets and Moroccan gunfire, a number of migrants died (sources put the number of deaths between thirteen and eighteen people) and more than fifty were injured. Some of the dead were wounded by live ammunition; of those, two died at the Spanish side of the fence, apparently shot from the Moroccan positions. The 2005 events at the Ceuta and Melilla border fences are the subject of a documentary film, Victimes de nos richesses.
Since then, migrants have occasionally died while trying to break through the fence.
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“This teaching is not practical in the sense in which the New Testament is. It is not always sound sense in practice. The Brahman never proposes courageously to assault evil, but patiently to starve it out. His active faculties are paralyzed by the idea of caste, of impassable limits of destiny and the tyranny of time.”
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