Sub-Saharan Migrants are Being Sold as Slaves in Libya
Prices start from $400 per person.
Libyan authorities are investigating the slave auctions that were revealed in a CNN report last week.
CNN reported that people are sold according to their skillsets, and that prices start from $400 per person.
Most of these people are illegal migrants who are fleeing their countries in search of better lives in Europe. They pour into Libya's borders in thousands.
But Libya has recently increased security on its borders, and that leaves the smugglers with a lot of people they don't know what to do with. Which is what has led to the auctions.
Africans and people from all around the world have taken to Twitter to voice their concerns and disgust about these modern day slave auctions that are ironically taking place in Africa, and inflicted by other Africans.
Libya has functional slave markets, where captured black migrants are referred to as "merchandises" and auctioned off by Libyan rebels for as little as $200. pic.twitter.com/OxvjF26qg3
— Africa Facts Zone (@AfricaFactsZone) 19 November 2017
It's Really saddening to hear that Black people are being sold as slaves here in Africa (Libya) What is this world turning to? pic.twitter.com/yJwsr98P1z
— Man's Not Barry Roux (@AdvBarryRoux) 18 November 2017
Africans are being sold as slaves in Libya for $400 each right now. The world is silent. Africa is silent. AU is silent. Who's in charge here? 💔 💔 💔pic.twitter.com/hSkrtF55rl
— Man's Not Barry Roux (@AdvBarryRoux) 18 November 2017
Men are being auctioned off like slaves for agricultural work in Libya. This is repulsive, we're in 2017 and inhuman shit like this is happening. This breaks my heart tbh. Why isn't this on the news???
— That Black girl (@anele_co) 18 November 2017
Welcome to Hillary Clinton's “liberated" Libya, where human beings are being sold as slaves and slaughtered based on the color of their skin by jihadist “rebels" that she and Obama helped bring to power. https://t.co/4ACMYzWfyB
— Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) 15 November 2017
The New York Times reports that hundreds of protesters, mostly young black people, demonstrated in front of the Libyan Embassy in central Paris on Saturday. Some, The Times reports, were carrying a sign that said, "Put an end to the slavery and concentration camps in Libya," and chanting, "Free our brothers!"
You can read more about this on BBC, CNN and the New York Times.
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