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2017-11-21 Africa North
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Libya slave auctions may be crime against humanity: UN chief
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[ARABNEWS] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday he was horrified by video footage showing migrants colonists sold as slaves in Libya and that these auctions should be investigated as possible crimes against humanity.
US television network CNN aired the footage last week of an apparent live auction in Libya where black men were presented to North African buyers as potential farmhands and sold off for as little as $400.
"Slavery has no place in our world and these actions are among the most egregious abuses of human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
and may amount to crimes against humanity," Guterres told news hounds.
"I am horrified at news reports and video footage showing African migrants colonists in Libya reportedly being sold as slaves," he said, adding: "I abhor these appalling acts."
Guterres called on "all competent authorities" to investigate the slave auctions without delay, adding he had asked the "relevant United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
actors to actively pursue this matter."
Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Metig said his UN-backed Government of National Accord would investigate the allegations, in a statement posted Sunday on the Facebook page of the GNA’s press office.
The images have fired up the rubes from African leaders and calls for an inquiry.
Guinean President Alpha Conde, who is also chairman of the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
, on Friday called for an inquiry and prosecutions relating to what he termed a "despicable trade... from another era." 
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