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Chitchat THE RETURN OF SLAVE AUCTION MARKET - UN! Nice? Huat Ah!

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-public-slave-auctions-un-migration

Migrants from west Africa being ‘sold in Libyan slave markets’

UN migration agency says selling of people is rife in African nation that has slid into violent chaos since overthrow of Gaddafi
Gambian migrants returning home from Libya carry bags from UN agency the International Organization for Migration.
Gambian migrants returning home from Libya carry bags from UN agency the International Organization for Migration. Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters

Emma Graham-Harrison

Monday 10 April 2017 19.43 BST
Last modified on Tuesday 11 April 2017 07.27 BST

West African migrants are being bought and sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya, survivors have told a UN agency helping them return home.

Trafficked people passing through Libya have previously reported violence, extortion and slave labour. But the new testimony from the International Organization for Migration suggests that the trade in human beings has become so normalised that people are being traded in public.

“The latest reports of ‘slave markets’ for migrants can be added to a long list of outrages [in Libya],” said Mohammed Abdiker, IOM’s head of operation and emergencies. “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.”
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The north African nation is a major exit point for refugees from Africa trying to take boats to Europe. But since the overthrow of autocratic leader Muammar Gaddafi, the vast, sparsely populated country has slid into violent chaos and migrants with little cash and usually no papers are particularly vulnerable.

One 34-year-old survivor from Senegal said he was taken to a dusty lot in the south Libyan city of Sabha after crossing the desert from Niger in a bus organised by people smugglers. The group had paid to be taken to the coast, where they planned to risk a boat trip to Europe, but their driver suddenly said middlemen had not passed on his fees and put his passengers up for sale.

“The men on the pick-up were brought to a square, or parking lot, where a kind of slave trade was happening. There were locals – he described them as Arabs – buying sub-Saharan migrants,” said Livia Manante, an IOM officer based in Niger who helps people wanting to return home.

She interviewed the survivor after he escaped from Libya earlier this month and said accounts of slave markets were confirmed by other migrants she spoke to in Niger and some who had been interviewed by colleagues in Europe.

“Several other migrants confirmed his story, independently describing kinds of slave markets as well as kinds of private prisons all over in Libya,” Manente 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. This gives more evidence that the stories reported are true, as the stories of those who managed to cross-match those who are returning back to their countries.”

After his sale, the Senegalese migrant was taken to a makeshift prison of a kind that has been well documented in Libya. Those held inside are forced to work without pay, or on meagre rations, and their captors regularly call family at home demanding a ransom. His captors asked for 300,000 west African francs (about £380), then sold him on to a larger jail where the demand doubled without explanation.

Men who lingered there too long without the ransom being paid were taken away and killed, he said. Some wasted away on meagre rations in unsanitary conditions, dying of hunger and disease, but overall numbers never fell. “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.

His terrified family began scraping together loans. As he spoke fluent English, French and some local languages, he translated for his jailers to win time for relatives to collect the money.

Many other migrants flee Libya with similar stories, said Giuseppe Loprete, chief of mission at IOM Niger. “Its very clear they see themselves as being treated as slaves,” he said.

Loprete’s office has arranged for the repatriation of 1,500 people in the first three months of this year – almost the same number as in the whole of 2015. He fears more horrors are likely to emerge.
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“There are now more migrants coming back from Libya, so that’s also why all these stories are coming to the surface,” he said. “And conditions are worsening in Libya so I think we can also expect more in the coming months.”

Even growing international awareness of the problems migrants face is being exploited. IOM has had credible reports of criminals posing as aid groups that help migrants to lure in people who have escaped or bought their freedom and want to return home.

The organisation is working to spread awareness across west Africa of the horrors of the journey through the personal stories of those who return. Though most migrants know the boat trips to Europe are extremely risky, fewer realise they may face even worse dangers in Libya before even reaching the coast.

“Tragically, the most credible messengers are migrants returning home with IOM help,” said spokesman Leonard Doyle. “Too often they are broken, brutalised and have been abused. Their voices carry more weight than anyone else’s.”
 

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https://tw.news.yahoo.com/西非移民-傳遭利比亞奴隸市場公開買賣-035700068.html


西非移民 傳遭利比亞奴隸市場公開買賣

[中央廣播電台]
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中央廣播電台2017年4月11日

英國「衛報」(The Guardian)報導,奴隸交易的倖存者告訴幫助他們回家的聯合國(UN)機構說,在利比亞的現代奴隸市場中,來自西非的移民遭到公開買賣。

過往已有報導指出,經利比亞被販運的人士蒙受暴力、勒索、奴役之苦。國際移民組織(IOM)提供的最新證詞則顯示,人口交易已變成常態,到可以公開買賣的地步。

國際移民組織營運與急難事務主管阿布迪凱(Mohammed Abdiker)說,「這些有關移民『奴隸市場』的最新消息,可為(利比亞境內發生的)一長串暴行再添一例。」

他說,「情況很可怕。國際移民組織涉入利比亞境內愈深,我們愈瞭解到對於太多移民來說,這是個淚水的深淵。」

位於北非的利比亞,是非洲難民試圖搭船前往歐洲時的主要出口。但自從獨裁領袖格達費(Muammar Gaddafi)被推翻以來,土地廣袤、人口稀疏的利比亞已陷入暴力混亂之中。只有少數金錢,而且通常沒有身份文件的難民特別容易受害。
 

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Only China remain status quo despite British Empire attack on China soil.

The Rise of China angmoh hv to watch their backsides today.
 

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Slavery is the MOST ECONOMICAL use of Manpower without squandering huge amount of Earth Resources to Pamper People, while getting GREAT things done.

Egyptian Pyramids and Chinese Great Wall are solid evidence of achievements under Slavery System. Deprive man instead of pampering them, get them to work hardest without expecting rewards, and got no place to KPKB complain. Max Contribution is effectively Compelled, no whips are the encouragements.
 
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