EU failing migrants crossing Mediterranean from Libya: Amnesty Amnesty International says the EU and European governments are "propping up a system that puts migrants at extreme risk at sea and in Libya" by increasing cooperation with the Libyan coastguard, and by relying on NGOs to provide search and rescue operations rather than sending such vessels themselves. As EU interior ministers meet in Tallinn to discuss the rising wave of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa, Amnesty International is warning that 2017 is on course to see an even higher death rate in migrants making the crossing than in 2016, which is the deadliest year on record so far. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITESREFILE to correct statistic in first soundbite