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Libyan migrants are victims of crimes against humanity – UN mission

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African migrants look on as they take part in a sit-in portest to demand that the internatinal community takes them out of Libya, outside the UNHRC office in Tripoli, Libya, 09 October 2021. According to the hundreds of the African migrants taking part in the sit-in protest outside the UNHR office in Tripoli, that some of them started a few days earlier, another group joined on 08 October after fleeing the detention center, where a gunfire incident had occurred killing at least 6 people. The migrants said that they moved to that location because they feel unsafe and have nowhere else to go. They sleep on the ground, cook their meals on the spot, and care for the injured by themselves. There are men, women and some children among them as well. EPA-EFE/STR

A U.N. fact-finding mission on Libya said on Monday that it had reasonable grounds to believe war crimes and crimes against humanity had been committed, including against migrants, and that it would relay the evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The mission, tasked with investigating abuses in the North African country since 2016, said in its final report submitted to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council that violations were committed by both state security forces and armed groups.

Migrants, thousands of whom seek to transit through the country every year, were targeted in particular and the team of three independent investigators found “overwhelming evidence” that they had been systematically tortured.

It also had reasonable grounds to believe that they were subject to sexual slavery, it said.

via Reuters

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