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What kind of people are the migrants? They aren't the "rapists" and criminals Elon Musk wishes they all were. Pushed away from their homelands by oppressive and genocidal regimes, the "civilized world" then pushes them back into the sea, or into the path of the traffickers who trade in their blood and limbs.

Thousands are held like Naima in trafficker warehouses in Libya. In 2021, I wrote about a particularly brutal trafficker kingpin, and interviewed survivors.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ethiopia-libya-human-trafficking-migrants-escape-justice