Posted on 05/14/2017 8:28:47 PM PDT by Lorianne
Six months after Muhammed Yusuf had been sold, tortured and forced to watch as a friend died, he found himself back at the parched, dusty bus station where his ordeal began, facing the man who had made him a slave.
Unembarrassed and unrepentant, the smuggler was still touting for business among the crowds flooding into Agadez, an oasis town on the fringe of the Sahara desert in central Niger that has for centuries been a trading centre and gateway to shifting paths across the desert.
“I told him ‘my friend died in Libya because of you’,” Yusuf said a few days after the meeting. Then, desperately hungry, he asked him for some food. The man shrugged off both appeals, and walked away, saying only: “I am sorry, but God will help you.”
Yusuf, a 24-year-old Nigerian, was one of thousands of people who had travelled to Libya looking for work, or hoping to sail to Europe, who were instead sucked into a grim and violent world of slave markets, private prisons, and brutal forced brothels.
The dangers of attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, in overcrowded, unseaworthy vessels, have been highlighted ...
Less well-known are the dangers of Libya itself for migrants fleeing poverty across West Africa. The country’s slide into chaos following the 2011 death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the collapse of the government have made it a breeding ground for crime and exploitation. Two rival governments, an Isis franchise and countless local militias competing for control of a vast, sparsely populated territory awash in weapons, have allowed traffickers to flourish, checked only by the activities of their criminal rivals.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Hey! Guardian!
It’s you and your fellow travelers that created this mess.
Is that slavery slavery?
The Africans have been selling slaves for probably more than a thousand years. There is history there.
Old school slavery slavery is now big business in North Africa as sub-Saharan Africans try to make their way north to take part in the sack of Europe, or are fleeing the unrestricted rampage of mulsims and other forms of filth in their home AOs.
Indeed.
But we are encouraging it.
This is what is happening to Blacks in America. So many shun what is necessary to get a good education and are sucked into the illegal drug industry. There they become slaves to the illegal drug culture which ruins life through addictive drugs, gang violence and prison. In the end, life is cheap and death the only reward for those who make $billions for their human slave masters.
Hillary Clinton and Obama’s legacy is the reemergence of slavery.
This is how it started once before when the Varsity under Mohammad and his Disciples swept through Africa, the ME, and southern Europe. Now with the rise of the JV, aka ISIS, history begins to repeat itself.
Then. the slave trade grew so large that it became the big business of its day, and again grew until it was the only profitable business ... in Africa, the ME and southern Europe.
If ISIS and its precursor, Islam, are not destroyed soon (within the next 100 years), expect more of the same.
I’m sure African Americans are very proud of their African heritage. I know I would be! /s/
Make that TEN!
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