{"id":2506,"date":"2017-11-17T04:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2017-11-17T04:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:44:42","slug":"how-nigerians-are-sold-on-slave-trade-in-libya-people-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/how-nigerians-are-sold-on-slave-trade-in-libya-people-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nigerians are sold on Slave Trade in Libya: People for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"attackHead\">\n<h2 class=\"cnni-header1\">People for sale: \u00a0Where lives are auctioned for $400!<br \/>\nExclusive: Nigerian Migrants being sold as &#8216;slaves&#8217;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cnni-header2\">Where lives are auctioned for $400<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pg-special-article__head pg-special-article__head-standard\">\n<div class=\"el__video el__video--fullwidth\">\n<div id=\"media__video_large-media_0--wrapper\" class=\"js-media__video media__video\">\n<div class=\"media__video--thumbnail-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video__end-slate--inactive video__end-slate js-video__end-slate\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"video__end-slate__top-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"js-el__video__replayer-wrapper el__video__replayer-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171113193652-01-libya-slave-auction-hp-tz-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"Exclusive: Migrants being sold as 'slaves'\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"large-media_0-metadata\" class=\"metadata\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cnni-byline\">\n<div class=\"cnni-byline-text\">By Nima Elbagir, Raja Razek, Alex Platt and Bryony Jones for CNN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pg-special-article__body\">\n<div class=\"m-share m-share__rail-top js-share-rail-top m-share__floating\">\n<div class=\"share-bar-email-container gigya-sharebar-element gig-bar-container gig-share-bar-container\">\n<div class=\"gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-none gig-button-container-email gig-share-button-container gig-button-container-horizontal\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-none\"><strong>Tripoli, Libya <\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; &#8220;Eight hundred,&#8221; says the auctioneer. &#8220;900 &#8230; 1,000 &#8230; 1,100 &#8230;&#8221; Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars &#8212; the equivalent of $800.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"body-text\" class=\"zn zn-body-text zn-body zn--idx-0 zn--ordinary zn-has-multiple-containers zn-has-56-containers\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not &#8220;merchandise&#8221; at all, but two human beings.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">One of the unidentified men being sold in the grainy cell phone video obtained by CNN is Nigerian. He appears to be in his twenties and is wearing a pale shirt and sweatpants.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">He has been offered up for sale as one of a group of &#8220;big strong boys for farm work,&#8221; according to the auctioneer, who remains off camera. Only his hand &#8212; resting proprietorially on the man&#8217;s shoulder &#8212; is visible in the brief clip.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--tablet\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--desktop\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"ad_bnr_atf_01\" class=\"ad-ad_bnr_atf_01 ad-refresh-adtop adfuel-rendered\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/8663477\/CNN\/world\/africa\/leaf\/inter_0__container__\">After seeing footage of this slave auction, CNN worked to verify its authenticity and traveled to Libya to investigate further.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Carrying concealed cameras into a property outside the capital of Tripoli last month, we witness a dozen people go &#8220;under the hammer&#8221; in the space of six or seven minutes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he&#8217;ll dig,&#8221; the salesman, dressed in camouflage gear, says. &#8220;What am I bid, what am I bid?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Buyers raise their hands as the price rises, &#8220;500, 550, 600, 650 &#8230;&#8221; Within minutes it is all over and the men, utterly resigned to their fate, are being handed over to their new &#8220;masters.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--tablet\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--desktop\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"ad_bnr_btf_01\" class=\"ad-ad_bnr_btf_01 ad-refresh-adbody adfuel-rendered\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/8663477\/CNN\/world\/africa\/leaf\/inter_1__container__\">After the auction, we met two of the men who had been sold. They were so traumatized by what they&#8217;d been through that they could not speak, and so scared that they were suspicious of everyone they met.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"element-raw appearance-standard\">\n<div class=\"m-infographic--1498561110228\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\n<h3>Crackdown on smugglers<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Each year, tens of thousands of people pour across Libya&#8217;s borders. They&#8217;re refugees fleeing conflict or economic migrants in search of better opportunities in Europe.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Most have sold everything they own to finance the journey through Libya to the coast and the gateway to the Mediterranean.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">But a recent clampdown by the Libyan coastguard means fewer boats are making it out to sea, leaving the smugglers with a backlog of would-be passengers on their hands.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">So the smugglers become masters, the migrants and refugees become slaves.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--tablet\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--desktop\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"ad_bnr_btf_02\" class=\"ad-ad_bnr_btf_02 ad-refresh-adbody adfuel-rendered\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"el__image--fullwidth js__image--fullwidth\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171110141805-01-africa-migrants-libya-1110-super-169.jpg\" alt=\"Migrants rescued from the Mediterranean arrive at a naval base in Tripoli in October.\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"img__preloader\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\">\n<div class=\"element-raw appearance-fullwidth\">Migrants rescued from the Mediterranean arrive at a naval base in Tripoli in October.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The evidence filmed by CNN has now been handed over to the Libyan authorities, who have promised to launch an investigation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">First Lieutenant Naser Hazam of the government&#8217;s Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency in Tripoli told CNN that although he had not witnessed a slave auction, he acknowledged that organized gangs are operating smuggling rings in the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;They fill a boat with 100 people, those people may or may not make it,&#8221; Hazam says. &#8220;(The smuggler) does not care as long as he gets the money, and the migrant may get to Europe or die at sea.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"element-raw appearance-standard\">\n<div class=\"m-html5-video--1477497980789\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;The situation is dire,&#8221; Mohammed Abdiker, the director of operation and emergencies for the International Organization for Migration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iom.int\/news\/iom-learns-slave-market-conditions-endangering-migrants-north-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement<\/a> after returning from Tripoli in April. &#8220;Some reports are truly horrifying and the latest reports of &#8216;slave markets&#8217; for migrants can be added to a long list of outrages.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The auctions take place in a seemingly normal town in Libya filled with people leading regular lives. Children play in the street; people go to work, talk to friends and cook dinners for their families.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">But inside the slave auctions it&#8217;s like we&#8217;ve stepped back in time. The only thing missing is the shackles around the migrants&#8217; wrists and ankles.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\n<h3>Deportation &#8216;back to square one&#8217;<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Anes Alazabi is a supervisor at <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/2017\/11\/14\/africa\/libya-migrant-detention-centers\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a detention center in Tripoli for migrants<\/a> that are due to be deported. He says he&#8217;s heard &#8220;a lot of stories&#8221; about the abuse carried out by smugglers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"el__image--fullwidth js__image--fullwidth\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171109125051-01-libya-migrant-detention-center-tripoli-super-169.jpg\" alt=\"The Treeq Alsika Migrant Detention Center in Tripoli, where some migrants are held by Libyan authorities before they are repatriated. \" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"img__preloader\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\">\n<div class=\"element-raw appearance-fullwidth\">The Treeq Alsika Migrant Detention Center in Tripoli, where some migrants are held by Libyan authorities before they are repatriated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m suffering for them. What I have seen here daily, believe me, it makes me feel pain for them,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Every day I can hear a new story from people. You have to listen to all of them. It&#8217;s their right to deliver their voices.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">One of the detained migrants, a young man named Victory, says he was sold at a slave auction. Tired of the rampant corruption in Nigeria&#8217;s Edo state, the 21-year-old fled home and spent a year and four months &#8212; and his life savings &#8212; trying to reach Europe.<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"element-raw appearance-standard\">\n<div class=\"image-swap timeline\">\n<div class=\"image-swap-image image-slide-1 m-infographic--timeline-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">He made it as far as Libya, where he says he and other would-be migrants were held in grim living conditions, deprived of food, abused and mistreated by their captors.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;If you look at most of the people here, if you check your bodies, you see the marks. They are beaten, mutilated.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">When his funds ran out, Victory was sold as a day laborer by his smugglers, who told him that the profit made from the transactions would serve to reduce his debt. But after weeks of being forced to work, Victory was told the money he&#8217;d been bought for wasn&#8217;t enough. He was returned to his smugglers, only to be re-sold several more times.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--tablet\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--desktop\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"ad_bnr_btf_03\" class=\"ad-ad_bnr_btf_03 ad-refresh-adbody adfuel-rendered\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/8663477\/CNN\/world\/africa\/leaf\/inter_3__container__\">The smugglers also demanded ransom payments from Victory&#8217;s family before eventually releasing him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"el__video--fullwidth js__video--fullwidth\">\n<div id=\"media__video_body-text_46--wrapper\" class=\"js-media__video media__video\">\n<div class=\"media__video--thumbnail-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video__end-slate--inactive video__end-slate js-video__end-slate\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"video__end-slate__top-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"js-el__video__replayer-wrapper el__video__replayer-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/171113155454-09-cnn-libya-detention-center-large-169.jpg\" alt=\"Nigerian migrant: 'I was sold'\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\">Nigerian migrant: &#8216;I was sold&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I spent a million-plus [Nigerian naira, or $2,780],&#8221; he tells CNN from the detention center, where he is waiting to be sent back to Nigeria. &#8220;My mother even went to a couple villages, borrowing money from different couriers to save my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the route through north Africa becomes increasingly fraught, many migrants have relinquished their dreams of ever reaching European shores. This year, more than 8,800 individuals have opted to voluntarily return home on repatriation flights organized by the IOM.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion: Abuse of migrants in Libya is a blot on world&#8217;s conscience<\/p>\n<p>While many of his friends from Nigeria have made it to Europe, Victory is resigned to returning home empty-handed.<br \/>\n&#8220;I could not make it, but I thank God for the life of those that make it,&#8221; he says.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not happy,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;I go back and start back from square one. It&#8217;s very painful. 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