(CNN)A small blue boat with an outboard motor bobs on the waves of the open sea. It is crammed with 28 migrants — men, women and children — from Somalia, Bangladesh and Yemen. Across the horizon is the Libyan coast.
Sailors on a Libyan coast guard ship wave their arms. “Stop! Stop!” they shout in English.
The sailors prepare to throw a rope to the boat, but several men on board shout back, in Arabic: “We don’t want it.”
