UK article described migrants as ‘a plague of feral humans’

UK article described migrants as ‘a plague of feral humans’

The United Nations human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, on Friday called on Britain to tackle hate speech in the tabloid press after a columnist compared migrants to “cockroaches” and advocated using gunboats to stop them from coming to Europe.

The Sun newspaper, part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, published the article by Katie Hopkins on April 17 2015.

A spokesman for The Sun declined to comment.

Headlined “Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to stop migrants”, Hopkins’ column described migrants as “a plague of feral humans” and “a norovirus” and said drilling a few holes in the bottom of their boats would be a good idea.

“Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care,” Hopkins wrote.

The day after the column was published, up to 900 people drowned when their boat capsized trying to reach Italy from Libya. Nearly 2,000 migrants have died so far this year out of nearly 40 000 trying to make the crossing…

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