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| African migrants sold in Libya 'slave markets', IOM says |
| 2017-04-12 |
| [BBC] Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in "slave markets" in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. Victims told IOM that after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups, they were taken to town squares or car parks to be sold. Migrants with skills like painting or tiling would fetch higher prices, the head of the IOM in Libya told the BBC. Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 Nato-backed ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Whiskey Mike, how much of these Reform Movements were simple economics? Imperialism gave new lands in the New World, Successive plagues depopulated whole regions there, No people equals No Plantations, Voila! import forced labor from cheapest source. As soon as the bulk demand died the *cough* newly virtuous investors started trading opium to China... |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-04-12 16:25 |
| #9 Not a whole lot different than back in their homeland. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-12 10:55 |
| #8 Britain had outlawed slavery rather early on (circa 1100 or so, but that was mainly white slavery). Sale of slaves was not condoned in England. This soon changed to ownership of slaves without regard to where they were purchased. In the 1700's, people who bought slaves elsewhere (like in Russia) were told that as soon as their slaves hit British (then English) soil, that the slave was free. This led to a lot of consequential law-making. Most of the colonies in America were anti-slave, but not all. Quakers were early anti-slavery proponents in America. All this is from memory, sorry, might not be perfect. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2017-04-12 10:35 |
| #7 It is only evil when the west does it, and then the west is guilty for all eternity despite the advances to humanity and civilization it produced. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-04-12 09:44 |
| #6 Yes, lets never talk about how America was in the lead of the world in ending the practice. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect in 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution. - wiki And remember 'Free States' were, having already (some as early as British colonies) banned the practice, ahead of the world. The people who demand perfection of the past are today all too often imperfect themselves. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-12 09:22 |
| #5 So, what's my Reparations $ owed for this? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-04-12 08:53 |
| #4 But only slavery in the US, outlawed on Jan. 1, 1863, needs to be addressed by reparations, affirmative action and white guilt. All the present stuff is just "quaint cultural customs" that are not relevant to the crimes of the West... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-04-12 08:47 |
| #3 Thought we got rid of the damned Barbary Pirates. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-04-12 08:13 |
| #2 Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads - A New History of The World, Knopf publishing, page 202 ...it was not high politics, papal grants or royal competition over territorial possessions that opened up [fifteenth century] Africa and transformed the fortunes of western Europe. The real breakthrough came when entrepreneurial ships' captains realised that in addition to trading oil and skins and looking for opportunities to buy gold, there were easier and better opportunities on offer. As had proved the case many times before in the history of Europe, the best money was to be had in the trafficking of people. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-04-12 07:25 |
| #1 Why am I not surprised? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-12 03:36 |