&FILE=/video/somalia-people-smuggling.swf&TIME=226&TITLE=<B>Somalia: People-smuggling</B><br />
&BLURB=Despite the risks desperate people are willing to pay smugglers to help them escape violence or poverty.
High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres has called on the international community to work together to help stop what he calls a horrible loss of innocent lives. Each year, thousands of people take the perilous journey across dangerous waters in hope of finding a better life. Many times it is at the hands of unscrupulous smugglers who sometimes dump their human cargo overboard or in boats which are not seaworthy and capsize.