Quote (Meanwhile @ Mar 30 2024 12:30am)

cool story Muammar

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Slavery in the post-Gaddafi era
Since Muammar Gaddafi's regime was overthrown during the First Libyan Civil War in 2011, Libya has been plagued by disorder, leaving migrants with little cash and no papers vulnerable. Libya is a major exit point for African migrants heading to Europe. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) published a report in April 2017 showing that many of the migrants from West, Central and Sahelian Africa heading to Europe are sold as slaves after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups. African countries south of Libya were targeted for slave trading and transferred to Libyan slave markets instead. According to the victims, the price is higher for migrants with skills like painting and tiling.[31][32] Slaves are often ransomed to their families and until ransom can be paid are tortured, forced to work, sometimes to death and eventually executed or left to starve if they can't pay for too long. Women are often raped and used as sex slaves and sold to brothels and private Libyan clients.[31][32][33][34] Many child migrants also suffer from abuse and child rape in Libya.[35][36]

After receiving unverified CNN video of a November 2017 slave auction in Libya, a human trafficker told Al-Jazeera that hundreds of migrants are bought and sold across the country every week.[37] Migrants who have gone through Libyan detention centres have shown signs of many human rights abuses such as severe abuse, including electric shocks, burns, lashes and even skinning, stated the director of health services on the Italian island of Lampedusa to Euronews.[38]

A Libyan group known as the Asma Boys have antagonized migrants from other parts of Africa from at least as early as 2000, destroying their property.[39] Nigerian migrants in January 2018 gave accounts of abuses in detention centres, including being leased or sold as slaves.[40] Videos of Sudanese migrants being burnt and whipped for ransom, were released later on by their families on social media.[41] In June 2018, the United Nations applied sanctions against four Libyans (including a Coast Guard commander) and two Eritreans for their criminal leadership of slave trade networks.[42]

A 2023 report by the UN Human Rights Council warned that crimes against humanity were being committed by state security forces and militia groups against migrants in Libya, which included women being forced into sexual slavery. The report highlighted that theEuropean Union contributed to these crimes by sending support to such forces.[43]

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Quote (ownyaah @ Mar 29 2024 11:35pm)

twas a joke <3

Quote (ownyaah @ Mar 29 2024 10:39pm)

GB did nothing compared to the french, sometimes it better to admit you are wrong

Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Mar 30 2024 10:36am)

The British did alot of bad things through colonialism. The partition of India and Pakistan was potentially one of the worst.
But pretending that the british were somehow the worst or the only imperialist/colonialist wrongdoer is just dishonest.

What they did not do after ww2 is fight against the majority of nationalist movements. The Dutch fought the Indonesians, the French fought the Algerians and Vietnamese.
It's an important distinction.

Also compare former British possessions in Africa with French possessions and the difference is staggering.
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya vs basically the Sahel countries that are some of the most unstable and dangerous parts of the entire continent.

Quote (Djunior @ Mar 30 2024 09:57am)

British crown jewel India is now a BRICS member and one of Russia's main trade partners. Just saying

Quote (ferdia @ Mar 30 2024 11:08am)

China is one of America's trade partners. probably not for long though.

Quote (zorzin @ Mar 30 2024 10:43am)

Ukraine faces retreat without US aid, Zelensky says
Ukrainian forces would have to cede further territory to Russia if US military aid does not arrive soon, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, in his latest appeal to Congress to pass a multibillion-dollar package

If there is no US support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-millimeter artillery rounds,” he told The Washington Post during a recent interview published Friday. “It means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/29/europe/ukraine-faces-retreat-without-us-aid-zelensky-says-intl-hnk/index.html

Quote (ferdia @ Mar 30 2024 06:45pm)

maybe france and poland can be the first to send troops. not an escalation ofc ofc.