HuffPo:
(Title h/t Dan McLaughlin)
After a video surfaced showing migrants apparently being sold at auction in Libya, people worldwide have been calling for action.
Last week, CNN published a report on modern slavery in Libya, featuring a video that 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.
Following the CNN report, demonstrators took to the streets in Paris and other cities last week to express their outrage, and Libyans showed their solidarity on Twitter with the hashtag #LibyansAgainstSlavery.
Several world leaders spoke out as well. The chairman of the African Union, Guinean President Alpha Condé, called it a “despicable trade … from another era” on Friday. The U.N. Support Mission in Libya said Wednesday that it was “dismayed and sickened,”and is “actively pursuing” the matter with Libyan authorities.
“I am horrified at news reports and video footage showing African migrants in Libya reportedly being sold as slaves,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said to reporters on Monday. “Slavery has no place in our world, and these actions are among the most egregious abuses of human rights and may amount to crimes against humanity.”
Guterres called for the international community to unite in fighting the abuse and smuggling of migrants, notably by increasing avenues for legal migration and enhancing international cooperation in cracking down on smugglers and traffickers.
However, rights advocates caution that real action may be slow in coming. “People are rightfully outraged,” Human Rights Watch researcher Hanan Salah told Reuters of CNN’s video on Monday. “But don’t hold your breath that anything real is going to happen.”
There are more than 45 million people worldwide who are victims of modern slavery, including forced labor and human trafficking, according to a September report from the human rights group Walk Free Foundation.
45 million slaves in 2017 and not one in the USA.
So, liberals & black Americans, how about you get off your high horses and do something about a real problem instead of an imaginary one?
Slavery is common in the entire middle east, so they can only track down one auction. Perhaps look in the UK where the authorities have been covering it up for YEARS.
I think it is disgusting how Trump has created the slave trade in Libya, spreading suffering, subjugation and misery everywhere…. wait, what? It wasn’t Trump but, in fact, the people that keep harking back to slavery, accusing Trump of wanting to reinstitute slavery, that actually enabled this scenario to develop?
Oh, sorry. My mistake.
Okay Jessie Jackson Calypso Louie NBPP Rainbow/PUSH, and Main Scream News media lowlifes and the Useless Nations so called Human Rights fakes where your objection to all this? Maybe its becuase you wont get any big time on the Fake News Network CNN
I thought Dems said we don’t attack countries unless they attack us first. I must have missed something.
@Mully: That’s more of a recommendation than a hard and fast rule, easily overruled if the Secretary of State is a money-whore crook and her pet weasel, who was establishing business opportunities in the target country, says to wipe out the current government so the cash can start flowing.
How bout we waterboard Hillary or Bill and find out where Libyas gold is.