The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has documented the existence of prisons and public slave markets throughout Libya.
As smugglers bring migrants from countries like Niger to Libyan port cities like Sabha for the trip across the Mediterranean Sea, often middlemen demand a higher fee than the migrants expect to pay. The fee can be as high as 300,000 West African francs or 380 British pounds. Failure to pay up results in them being taken prisoner and sold into slavery.
Some who don’t pay their ransom are sometimes taken away and killed. Others may die of hunger and disease because of the unsanitary conditions in which they are housed.
Livia Manante, an IOM officer based in Niger, has received reports of migrants being 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.”
The going rate for a migrant slave in the public markets ranges from $200 (160 British pounds) to $500 (400 British pounds). Once purchased, the migrant can be imprisoned and forced to work, resold in another slave market, sometimes freed or even murdered.
To protect the migrants from such horrendous treatment, IOM has repatriated about 1,500 people back to West Africa this year and undertaken an effort to educate would-be migrants about the hazards they face if they decide to leave their home countries.
The message delivered in those countries is direct and dire. It’s clearly meant to discourage anyone from attempting the dangerous trek to get to Europe.
Migrants who go to Libya while trying to get to Europe, have no idea of the torture archipelago that awaits them just over the border. There they become commodities to be bought, sold and discarded when they have no more value.”
This human catastrophe is just part of the unintended consequences of the 2011 ouster of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Prior to the ill-considered regime change in Libya initiated by President Barack Obama and NATO allies, Libya was perhaps the most prosperous and stable country in North Africa.
It would have been unheard of for there to be public slave markets anywhere throughout Libya prior to Gaddafi’s overthrow, which was carried out by the Obama/Clinton regime.
Source: International Business Times
Image: Refugee Resettlement Watch
Sounds like the Rich Democrats are back in the Black slave trade bussiness again .
Well their you have it. Proof that the Democratic Party is still in the slave business. Lead by Obama and Hillary Clinton!
Could care less about them being captured and sold
It’s none of my business
And apparently none of the black Americans either they just want to know where’s more free$#%&!@*oh and reparation
Ready torpedo tube 1
Emancipation proclamation only applied to the Southern states. NOT the Border or Northern states, Slavery didn’t completely end then.
Gurina Psait I’m a Christian and a Vet and what’s wrong with trying to protect your country?
Some more of than fine Muslim b******t
Get smart! In America, if you voters vote for Muslims on the State level, i.e., Governor or Mayors in cities or vote their Congressmen for Congress, when there gets enough Muslim or Muslim supporters, OUR LAWS CAN be changed to suit the Muslims. Many of the Muslims have learned English very well before coming to America, have been very well educated, have Medical and Law degrees, have many educated Professors teachers and nurses. Too many think that they will take low paying jobs. Not true! Already, many have opened up their own businesses.
Muslim slavers still exist in Africa and the Mideast.