Deliberate reduction of human beings into nothingness.
For years, this is what we have fought to make visible: EU-funded concentration camps in Libya where enslaved โmigrantsโ and โrefugeesโ are detained en masse, shoulder against shoulder, body against body, with barely enough room to turn or sit upright. Exhaustion, dehydration, disorientation, heat, suffocation, darkness, sheer collapseโyou name it.
One does not need visible blood for violence to be present. Sometimes violence is architectural, administrative, and above all a decision to place hundreds of enslaved people in a room never meant to contain them and then call it โmigration management.โ
My outrage comes from the fact that such scenes have become normalised both in Libya, Europe and around the globe. The world has slowly learned to consume the dehumanisation of โmigrantsโ as recurring theme instead of evidence of ongoing crimes against human beings that concerns all of humanity.
And while this reality is already unbearable, this morning a document leaked to
@StatewatchEU confirmed that the EU has begun collaborating with Haftarโs forces in eastern Libya on โmigration control.โ
The result will be worse than what is happening in this footage.
This is a condition that no court, parliament, humanitarian institution, or democratic society should tolerate for a single hour, let alone for years that has passed.