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Libyan police detain dozens of migrants in fresh crackdown migrants
[AlAhram] Authorities in western Libya said they rounded up dozens of migrants colonists Monday in the capital of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, in the latest crackdown on migrants colonists in the conflict-ridden country.

Security forces raided migrant dwellings in Tripoli's Airport Road area and detained ``many'' migrants colonists, according to a police statement.

The statement did not say how many migrants colonists were detained but attached images showed several dozen migrants colonists sitting on the ground in an open area surrounded by armed forces in uniform.

It said the raids early Monday came in response to an increase in crimes in the area, including prostitution, robbery and drug trafficking. The statement blamed migrants colonists for the alleged crimes without offering evidence supporting the claim.

The statement said legal measures were taken against the migrants colonists without elaborating on what type of measures. The migrants colonists were likely taken to detention centres in Tripoli, places that rights activist muppets say are rife with abuse and where migrants colonists are kept in miserable conditions.

A front man for the Tripoli-based government did not answer calls seeking comment.

The raids were the latest in an ongoing crackdown on migrants colonists in Libya. The country has in recent years emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants colonists fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East trying to reach Europe.

Over the weekend, a vehicle hit two migrants colonists working as garbage collectors in the Airport Road area. The migrants colonists, who were working for the government-run Tripoli Public Services, died and were buried Sunday in a funeral attended by dozens of other migrants colonists, according to Tarik Lamloum, a Libyan activist muppet working with the Belaady Organization for Human Rights.

He said Monday's crackdown was a ``cover-up'' for the killing of the two migrants colonists over the weekend. He said a Libyan man hit them with his vehicle and fled and called for authorities to open an investigation and track down the suspect.

``The raids are a propaganda campaign,'' Lamloum said. ``Most migrants colonists in the area are workers in workshops and farms, not criminals as they say.''

Last year, security forces detained over 5,000 migrants colonists, including many women and kiddies, in a section of Tripoli in what authorities described as a security campaign against illegal migration and drug trafficking.

The U.N. decried the clampdown, which involved harassing migrants colonists at their homes, beatings and shootings.

Libya plunged into chaos following a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Muammar Qadaffy
...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
 in 2011.

Traffickers have exploited the chaos and often pack desperate families into ill-equipped rubber or wooden boats that stall and founder along the perilous Central Mediterranean route.

Thousands have drowned along the way. Others were intercepted and returned to Libya. Those returned to shore have been taken to government-run detention centers, where they are often abused and extorted for ransom under the very nose of U.N. officials.
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