Sink it, but slowly so all hands can find their life rafts.
Then pick up the stragglers, imprison them for a few months while you work out the paperwork, which can take some time.
Then release them into the loving arms of the Saudis, Greeks, Serbians, etc.
Drop a thousand pounder down the stack. That should stop it.
“Libyan aid” ship with quite an assemblage of a crew.
Your solution is very kind and humane.