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"By the time his Libyan captors branded his face, Sunday Iabarot had already run away twice and had been sold three times.The gnarled scar that covers most of the left side of his face appears to show a crude number 3. His jailer carved it into his cheek with a fire-heated knife, cutting and cauterizing at the same time.
Iabarot left Nigeria in February 2016 with a plan to head northward and buy passage on a smuggler’s boat destined for Europe, where he had heard from friends on Facebook that jobs were plentiful. The journey of more than 2,500 miles would take him across the trackless desert plains of Niger and through the lawless tribal lands of southern Libya before depositing him at the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. He never made it. Instead, he was captured the moment he arrived in Libya, then sold to armed men who kept a stable of African migrants they exploited for labor and ransom."
'It Was As if We Weren’t Human.' Inside the Modern Slave Trade Trapping African Migrants
If you want to fight slavery, it exists right there. Stop faulting your neighbor for "ancestral" sins they had nothing to do with, or getting angry over perceived micro-aggressions, and commit yourself to a real fight against evil right here. Of course, it's going to require more than Twitter posting and armchair activism.
End Modern Slavery in Libya's Migrant Detention Centers
People in the EU also capitalize on the same victims:
After that - or rather, besides that - you might want to also fight sex trafficking/slavery. It happens to all races.
And last but not least, none of it would have happened if not for the Arab Spring:
Iabarot left Nigeria in February 2016 with a plan to head northward and buy passage on a smuggler’s boat destined for Europe, where he had heard from friends on Facebook that jobs were plentiful. The journey of more than 2,500 miles would take him across the trackless desert plains of Niger and through the lawless tribal lands of southern Libya before depositing him at the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. He never made it. Instead, he was captured the moment he arrived in Libya, then sold to armed men who kept a stable of African migrants they exploited for labor and ransom."
'It Was As if We Weren’t Human.' Inside the Modern Slave Trade Trapping African Migrants
If you want to fight slavery, it exists right there. Stop faulting your neighbor for "ancestral" sins they had nothing to do with, or getting angry over perceived micro-aggressions, and commit yourself to a real fight against evil right here. Of course, it's going to require more than Twitter posting and armchair activism.
End Modern Slavery in Libya's Migrant Detention Centers
People in the EU also capitalize on the same victims:
After that - or rather, besides that - you might want to also fight sex trafficking/slavery. It happens to all races.
And last but not least, none of it would have happened if not for the Arab Spring:
