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   XPost: uk.legal, alt.politics.uk   
   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:23:52 +0100   
   Basil Jet  wrote:   
      
   > On 2017\04\11 17:10, burfordTjustice wrote:   
   > > Migrants from West Africa are being openly traded in "public slave   
   > > markets" across Libya.   
   > >    
   > > As a departure point for refugees trying to get to Europe, migrants   
   > > arriving in Libya from sub-Saharan Africa are particularly   
   > > vulnerable due to a lack of money and little in the way of   
   > > documentation.   
   > >    
   > > Survivors have told the International Organization for Migration   
   > > (IOM) how there are slave markets and private prisons all over   
   > > Libya.   
   > >    
   > > Mohammed Abdiker, IOM's head of operation and emergencies, told The   
   > > Guardian: "The situation is dire. The more IOM engages inside   
   > > Libya, the more we learn that it is a vale of tears for all too   
   > > many migrants." Slavery returns to Africa: Migrants sold at open   
   > > markets in Libya...   
   > >    
   > >    
   > > One survivor from Senegal spoke of how he was brought by smugglers   
   > > across Niger in a bus to the southern Libyan city of Sabha, where   
   > > he was due to risk a boat trip to Europe. When the middleman did   
   > > not get his fee, the survivor was put up for sale along with other   
   > > passengers.   
   > >    
   > > He was taken to a prison where he worked without pay while the   
   > > captors demanded 300,000 West African francs (about £380) before   
   > > selling him on to a larger jail. Livia Manante, an IOM officer   
   > > based in Niger, told The Guardian how migrants would be brought to   
   > > a square where they were put up for sale.   
   > >    
   > > "IOM Italy has confirmed that this story is similar to many stories   
   > > reported by migrants and collected at landing points in southern   
   > > Italy, including the slave market reports."   
   > >    
   > > Those who did not get their ransom paid were often taken away and   
   > > killed while others would die of hunger and disease in unsanitary   
   > > conditions.   
   > >    
   > > "If the number of migrants goes down, because of death or someone   
   > > is ransomed, the kidnappers just go to the market and buy one,"   
   > > Manente said.   
   > >    
   > > IOM has helped repatriate 1,500 people back to West Africa so far   
   > > this year where it is trying to inform people not to risk the   
   > > journey to Libya where they face exploitation.   
   > >    
   > > "Too often they are broken, brutalised and have been abused. Their   
   > > voices carry more weight than anyone else's," IOM spokesman Leonard   
   > > Doyle told the newspaper.   
   >    
   > This must be fake news. Everyone knows only white people keep slaves.   
      
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