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Interpol arrests 40 human traffickers after Libya slave auction
[PRESSTV] At least 40 people have been detained during a swoop on human trafficking across West Africa, after a video surfaced showing refugees apparently being sold at auction in Libya. In a statement on Thursday, Interpol said those incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! face prosecution for offences including human trafficking, forced labor and child exploitation. "They are accused of forcing victims to engage in activities ranging from begging to prostitution, with little to no regard for working conditions or human life," the statement read. Interpol also noted that some 500 people, including 236 minors, had been rescued in simultaneous operations across Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... "The results of this operation underline the challenge faced by law enforcement and all stakeholders in addressing human trafficking in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... ," the operation's coordinator Innocentia Apovo said. The Interpol-led action comes amid global outcry sparked by footage of Africans being sold as slaves in Libya. CNN last week aired footage of a live auction in Libya where black men were being sold for as little as $400 to North African buyers as farmhands. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has recently said that the reported auctions of African refugees in Libya as slaves amounts to "crimes against humanity." Posted by: Fred 2017-11-24 |
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