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    Migrants are being sold at open slave markets in Libya

    Migrants are being sold at open slave markets in Libya

    Vulnerable refugees from West Africa often arrive in the country with no money and no papers.


    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.
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    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, said: "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."

    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, said migrants would be brought to a square where they were put up for sale.

    Manante said: "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.



    A migrant prays on the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) after being rescued off the coast of Libya, in June 2016. The International Organisation for Migration says migrants are being sold openly as slaves in Libya.Reuters

    The going rate for a migrant was between $200 (£160) and $500 (£400) each, with many forced into captivity for months before they are freed or sold on. So far this year more than 170 bodies have washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean while the Libyan Coast Guard has also rescued thousands more.

    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.

    "Migrants who go to Libya while trying to get to Europe, have no idea of the torture archipelago that awaits them just over the border," said Leonard Doyle, chief IOM spokesman in Geneva. "There they become commodities to be bought, sold and discarded when they have no more value."


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    Way to go Hillary! Democrats always loved slavery, if not here, then over there. History repeats itself if you didn't learn from it the first time around.
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    If this is true - yes we have Hillary and her actions.

    It could be, though, this is propaganda to get more support for Europe taking migrants - or maybe pushing the US to take even more.

    One question - why suddenly - are there so many 'migrants' and refugees?

    The ME I know, but why all the Africans. It seems as if the entire world is suddenly 'migrants or refugees'.

    Shouldn't someone be telling them in their own countries they need to stay home, rather than waving a carrot at them.

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