[LIBYAREVIEW] On Wednesday, the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that 42 Europe-bound asylum-seekers and migrants colonists were returned to Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
. Among them were four children and eight women, of whom two were pregnant.UNHCR added that the majority of the asylum-seekers were from Nigeria, Sudan, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, and Egypt. "UNHCR and International Rescue Committee (IRC) provided assistance and medical aid to all survivors," it tweeted.
Libya has become the preferred point of departure for migrants colonists wanting to cross the Mediterranean towards European shores, since the 2011 uprising toppled leader Muammar Qadaffy
...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards , and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
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According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 22,000 illegal migrants colonists, including women and kiddies, have been rescued during 2021. Hundreds of others have died or gone missing off the Libyan coast on the dangerous central Mediterranean route.
Rescued migrants colonists end up inside overcrowded reception centers across Libya, despite repeated international calls to close these centers down. In traffickers’ camps as well as official detention centers, thousands of migrants colonists are tortured for extortion purposes, and women often suffer sexual violence. "Many migrants colonists who had departed from the Libyan coast claimed that they have been beaten and tortured in the centers where they were detained prior to leaving," a nurse working for MSF told Italia’s news website ANSA.
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