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Migrants trying to reach Europe sold as slaves in Libya | Daily Mail Online
Migrants and refugees are being sold as slaves by human traffickers in Libya for as little as a few hundred pounds, a shocking report has found.
Thousands of migrants still arrive in Libya, many from sub-Saharan Africa and Africa's Horn in the hopes to cross the Mediterranean...
...Video obtained by CNN shows a slave auction in Libya where Nigerian men are being sold as 'big strong boys for farm work.'
On the video, the auctioneer can be heard shouting prices, before one of the men is sold for 1,200 Libyan dinars - the equivalent of $800 or £665...
...There have been several reports on torture and abuse in the many detention centres in Libya, many of whom are run by local militant groups due to the current power vaccum.
Last month, the president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) called for EU aid to stop, saying Libya's detention of migrants 'must be named for what it is: a thriving enterprise of kidnapping, torture and extortion,'
Detainees told MSF how men are forced to run naked in the courtyard until they collapse from exhaustion, while women are raped and made to call family back home for money to free them.
Will Black Lives Matter go to Libya to protest?
Do you think that justifies the racism here, or our country's history of slavery?
Our slavery came from Europe and Africa....we were stuck with the European and African practice of slavery, but we ended it....there was also slavery, human sacrifice and cannibalism here with the indians....we got rid of those practices too.....all in about 250 years...not bad....
It's good that we outlawed slavery here even though many countries did much sooner. We all are proud and happy about that. That doesn't make all the residual damage go away. I was glad when my neighbor pinned up his dog so it wouldn't bite me again, but that didn't make my leg any less sore.
No....they outlawed transporting slaves on their ships...big freaking deal....they didn't have any slaves in their own countries.....they bought them from Africans and transported them to their colonies.....so banning transport was no big deal....we had to clean up their mess here....