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African migrants sold in Libya 'slave markets', IOM says
BBC ^ | 11 April 2017

Posted on 06/18/2018 6:28:36 AM PDT by 11th_VA

Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in "slave markets" in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.

Victims told IOM that after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups, they were taken to town squares or car parks to be sold.

Migrants with skills like painting or tiling would fetch higher prices, the head of the IOM in Libya told the BBC.

Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 Nato-backed ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.

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An IOM staff member in Niger said they confirmed the reports of auctions in Libya with several other migrants who had escaped.

"They all confirmed the risks of been sold as slaves in squares or garages in Sabha, either by their drivers or by locals who recruit the migrants for daily jobs in town, often in construction.

"Later, instead of paying them, [they] sell their victims to new buyers."

Some migrants, mainly Nigerians, Ghanaians and Gambians are forced to work "as guards in the ransom houses or in the 'market' itself", the IOM employee added.

The organisation has called the emergence of these markets "a disturbing new trend in the already dire situation for migrants in Libya".


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The story is a couple months old, but relevant to current events.
1 posted on 06/18/2018 6:28:36 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

And yet moronic AAs are converting to islam! I see more and more AA women dressed in black headscarves and long black robes - not the dumb Farrakan version but the real islam version.


2 posted on 06/18/2018 6:31:12 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Hillary is proud.


3 posted on 06/18/2018 6:34:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: 11th_VA

Nothing to see here, move along. It is just black Africans and mooselimbs doing what they each have been doing for a 1000 years.


4 posted on 06/18/2018 6:35:48 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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Of course the obvious solution is: Stay home and find work in your home country!

But the Beebs would never suggest that to these poor alien invaders struggling to reach the EU land of milk and honey.

5 posted on 06/18/2018 6:38:34 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: 11th_VA

When Blacks or m*slims take slaves, it’s not news. But light-skinned people born after slavery in the USA are blamed for slavery and slated for extermination.


6 posted on 06/18/2018 6:44:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: 11th_VA

President Trump should nominate Al Sharpton and Samuel Jackson to be special ambassador’s to Libya to combat Slavery.


7 posted on 06/18/2018 6:45:25 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: 11th_VA
Are the slave traders white?
If not, then it's not worth reporting.
Back to airing the 150 year old grievance in the US...

8 posted on 06/18/2018 6:45:41 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

These are the same African countries who kicked out the colonial powers for “oppressing” them by building up an economy and infrastructure.

They kicked them out to be “free” and to run their own affairs like rebuilding the slave trade they ran for a thousand years before.

Now that they’ve completely trashed their countries and economies and have slipped back into tribalism and slavery, they want to leave and go to the European countries they kicked out for oppressing them.

Lock them out and let their tribalism take its course.


9 posted on 06/18/2018 6:52:32 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: 11th_VA

Black Africans sold as slaves by Muslim Africans.

Hmmm. Hasn’t this info been around since Islam swept across Africa?


10 posted on 06/18/2018 6:53:12 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: BitWielder1

Worse-—they’re white NRA supremacists in black-face pretending to be liberals.


11 posted on 06/18/2018 6:53:32 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: 11th_VA

“The story is a couple months old, but relevant to current events. “

I think this story is hundreds of years older than that.


12 posted on 06/18/2018 7:00:12 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: 11th_VA

Angela Merkle is indirectly responsible for this - she has given millions of people in the Mideast and Africa the surety that if they can somehow get to Europe, they’ll be taken care of forever.


13 posted on 06/18/2018 7:06:14 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: 11th_VA

Slavery is OK since it’s cultural there.../s


14 posted on 06/18/2018 7:11:29 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: WKUHilltopper

Astonishing

Blacks here whine if there is a statue that offends them-——blacks there are being sold and nary a peep from the activists in this country.

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15 posted on 06/18/2018 7:20:03 AM PDT by Mears
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To: 11th_VA

Muslims still up to their same old Crap.


16 posted on 06/18/2018 7:22:07 AM PDT by carmen2017
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To: rigelkentaurus
just black Africans and mooselimbs doing what they each have been doing for a 1000 2000 years

Fixed it ...

17 posted on 06/18/2018 7:34:57 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA; tx_eggman
Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 Nato-backed ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.

Right... NATO (which is a capitalized acronym, by the way).

Let's blame NATO, not Obama and HRC.
18 posted on 06/18/2018 12:35:14 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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