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Video Of Migrants Sold In Apparent Slave Auction In Libya Provokes Outrage Worldwide


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https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-migrants-sold-apparent-slave-024200212.html?fbclid=IwAR2azl-5x9K_Vud_f9IyIu-kG0sBlyvPBizxWwkiAxqZ9ZQf256AMuGjRWw

Last week,CNN published a reporton modern slavery in Libya, featuringa videothat reportedly was shot in August and appeared to show a man selling African migrants for farm work.

“Big strong boys,” the man said in the video, according to a CNN narrator. “400 … 700 … 800,” he called out the mounting prices. The men were eventually sold for about $400 each, CNN reported. The Libyan government said it has launched an investigation into slave auctions in the country. 

 

“To end the slave trade we need to stop human smuggling,” William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organization for Migration, said Thursday. “You do that by destroying their business model. And you do that by ... decriminalizing migration and encouraging migration that is documented, safe and secure for all.”

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