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Survival.
Recently the EU admitted in a leaked report that it can no longer monitor the Libyan coastguard, and that the detention of migrants has become a profitable business for the government in Libya. This has also been revealed to be a renewed and controversial deal with the EU to stem the migration into Europe. The report contained details of the terrible fate of refugees trying to get into Europe. They have been picked up by the Brussels-backed coastguard and put into both official and unofficial detention camps that are inhumane.
There are widespread human rights violations, deaths, and unexplained disappearances. Bribery and corruption has been cited in this thirteen page document, and it still manages to praise the so-called 'progress achieved' in reducing numbers of immigrants leaving the Libyan coast for Europe. Both the EU and Italy have provided the Libyan coastguard with cash, training and boats to intercept migrants in the Mediterranean. Thus attempting to block all immigrants from the European shores.
The cost of a dream?.
Five million pounds was given in funding, despite admitting in the document that the conditions for these immigrants in Libya have deteriorated severely. This is due to security concerns related to the conflict and the development in more smuggling and trafficking gangs. The situation is worsened by the overcrowding of detention facilities, and the complete lack of care for their welfare. I can only imagine how desperate and lost these poor people must feel given that they are far away from their own homes, and all their dreams seem gone.
This leaked EU document is marked 'Limite (restricted)', of which an almost entirely revised version has now been published.
It lays out the severe consequences of an internal call for immediate action to save the lives of those caught up in this terrible system.
The document was written by the presidency of the EU council.
No record of how many detention camps exist, but an estimate ranges of official and unofficial facilities being around 17 to 35, some of which are being run by militia. There are more than 5,000 people being held, and about 3,700 of those are located in high conflict areas. Several of these detention centres are alleged to be linked to the human traffickers.
Unfortunately no registration system exists for these migrants, and serious cases of corruption and bribery within the centres have been detected, the EU document states. The EU officials are not allowed onshore to monitor any records or activities of the Libyan coastguard. Violence committed has been strongly suggested by certain documentaries.
The government in Libya has completely failed to improve this situation within these camps, or even try to deal with the regular reports of disappearing people picked up by the Libyan coastguard.
The government's reluctance to address these problems raises a question of its own involvement, the document states. Total reluctance of officials to co-operate is closely linked to the widely reported human rights violations that have taken place within these detention centres. It further suggests a profitable business model for the current Libyan government, and according to humanitarian organisations, detainees are coerced by camp officials into asking relatives to pay for their release.
At least 53 men, women and children were killed and 130 injured in July when a detention facility near Tripoli, in which 644 migrants and refugees had been detained, was bombed. The bombed-out centre was then swiftly refilled with people provided by the Libyan coastguard. The detention camps suffer from overcrowding and the conditions are dire. In particular, there are difficulties in relation to sanitary facilities ... Food and water supplies ... Severe human rights violations are widely reported.
The EU has been pressing the Libyan government to stop the arbitrary detention of migrants. However, the leaked paper distributed to key officials in September, noted that Libyan authorities agreed to close three detention centres near Tripoli.
So far no evidence exists that this has ever been carried out.
The sea is fierce.
The reduction in migration has simply been celebrated in Brussels, with the number of people arriving in Italy from Libya dropping from more than 107,000 in 2017 to about 13,000 in 2018, and to just 1,100 by August 2019. The Libyan coastguard was said to have intercepted 5,280 people in August 2019. The European parliament's civil liberties committee is due to interrogate EU officials on Thursday, with the Labour MEP Claude Moraes seeking full disclosure of the human cost.
How many more lives before someone listens?
What goes around, comes around.
Conflict in Africa; must end.
Sophie in 't Veld, a Dutch MEP stated over the years, billions of euros have flown into Libya with the sole purpose of keeping migrants away from Europe. So maybe fewer people have drowned, and fewer have reached the shores of Europe. But instead their have been countless people die in the desert, and were sold onto slave markets. Not to mention those tortured, raped and starved in Libyan detention camps, or those of whom were caught amidst the violent conflicts.
Meanwhile, the people smugglers are thriving,. and no one in their right mind can call this any kind of a success. This so-called policy is morally and financially bankrupt.
The price of conflict is much too high.
Pictured in my own mind is the vision of these people locked behind a wall begging for help. Left to my own devices, I would start chipping at that wall to free them, and that chipping hammer is called charity right now. So please pick up the hammer, and help me knock down this unfair wall?
Survival.
Recently the EU admitted in a leaked report that it can no longer monitor the Libyan coastguard, and that the detention of migrants has become a profitable business for the government in Libya. This has also been revealed to be a renewed and controversial deal with the EU to stem the migration into Europe. The report contained details of the terrible fate of refugees trying to get into Europe. They have been picked up by the Brussels-backed coastguard and put into both official and unofficial detention camps that are inhumane.
There are widespread human rights violations, deaths, and unexplained disappearances. Bribery and corruption has been cited in this thirteen page document, and it still manages to praise the so-called 'progress achieved' in reducing numbers of immigrants leaving the Libyan coast for Europe. Both the EU and Italy have provided the Libyan coastguard with cash, training and boats to intercept migrants in the Mediterranean. Thus attempting to block all immigrants from the European shores.
The cost of a dream?.
Five million pounds was given in funding, despite admitting in the document that the conditions for these immigrants in Libya have deteriorated severely. This is due to security concerns related to the conflict and the development in more smuggling and trafficking gangs. The situation is worsened by the overcrowding of detention facilities, and the complete lack of care for their welfare. I can only imagine how desperate and lost these poor people must feel given that they are far away from their own homes, and all their dreams seem gone.
This leaked EU document is marked 'Limite (restricted)', of which an almost entirely revised version has now been published.
It lays out the severe consequences of an internal call for immediate action to save the lives of those caught up in this terrible system.
The document was written by the presidency of the EU council.
No record of how many detention camps exist, but an estimate ranges of official and unofficial facilities being around 17 to 35, some of which are being run by militia. There are more than 5,000 people being held, and about 3,700 of those are located in high conflict areas. Several of these detention centres are alleged to be linked to the human traffickers.
Unfortunately no registration system exists for these migrants, and serious cases of corruption and bribery within the centres have been detected, the EU document states. The EU officials are not allowed onshore to monitor any records or activities of the Libyan coastguard. Violence committed has been strongly suggested by certain documentaries.
The government in Libya has completely failed to improve this situation within these camps, or even try to deal with the regular reports of disappearing people picked up by the Libyan coastguard.
GOVERNMENTAL FAILURE:
The government's reluctance to address these problems raises a question of its own involvement, the document states. Total reluctance of officials to co-operate is closely linked to the widely reported human rights violations that have taken place within these detention centres. It further suggests a profitable business model for the current Libyan government, and according to humanitarian organisations, detainees are coerced by camp officials into asking relatives to pay for their release.
At least 53 men, women and children were killed and 130 injured in July when a detention facility near Tripoli, in which 644 migrants and refugees had been detained, was bombed. The bombed-out centre was then swiftly refilled with people provided by the Libyan coastguard. The detention camps suffer from overcrowding and the conditions are dire. In particular, there are difficulties in relation to sanitary facilities ... Food and water supplies ... Severe human rights violations are widely reported.
The EU has been pressing the Libyan government to stop the arbitrary detention of migrants. However, the leaked paper distributed to key officials in September, noted that Libyan authorities agreed to close three detention centres near Tripoli.
So far no evidence exists that this has ever been carried out.
The sea is fierce.
The reduction in migration has simply been celebrated in Brussels, with the number of people arriving in Italy from Libya dropping from more than 107,000 in 2017 to about 13,000 in 2018, and to just 1,100 by August 2019. The Libyan coastguard was said to have intercepted 5,280 people in August 2019. The European parliament's civil liberties committee is due to interrogate EU officials on Thursday, with the Labour MEP Claude Moraes seeking full disclosure of the human cost.
CORRUPTION:
How many more lives before someone listens?
I've said this before, if money is all that you love, then you truly have 'NOTHING'.
Cruelty!
Those that commit this cruelty will surely pay one day. Karma, isn't just a belief, its a science.What goes around, comes around.
Free these people.
Conflict in Africa; must end.
Sophie in 't Veld, a Dutch MEP stated over the years, billions of euros have flown into Libya with the sole purpose of keeping migrants away from Europe. So maybe fewer people have drowned, and fewer have reached the shores of Europe. But instead their have been countless people die in the desert, and were sold onto slave markets. Not to mention those tortured, raped and starved in Libyan detention camps, or those of whom were caught amidst the violent conflicts.
Meanwhile, the people smugglers are thriving,. and no one in their right mind can call this any kind of a success. This so-called policy is morally and financially bankrupt.
The price of conflict is much too high.
Pictured in my own mind is the vision of these people locked behind a wall begging for help. Left to my own devices, I would start chipping at that wall to free them, and that chipping hammer is called charity right now. So please pick up the hammer, and help me knock down this unfair wall?
WORLD FREEDOM.
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