Every year, thousands of people try to breach the walls of Fortress Europe, risking everything in a gamble for safety, for a life better than the war, poverty and repression they were born into. Too late they realize how high the stakes are, where rigid, indiscriminate migration policies and unscrupulous human smugglers who feed off of their abundant misery and slim hope. As of October 2009, at least 14,860 people had been reported missing or killed trying to cross Europe’s borders since 1988, most of them at sea. In ‘Do they Know?’ JRS shares the experiences of some Eritreans and Somalis in Malta, who passed through Libya between 2004 and 2009 during their harrowing odyssey to reach Europe. Click the headline to download a PDF of the report.