Libyan authorities have launched a formal investigation into slave auctions in the country following an exclusive CNN report earlier this week, the government said Friday.
"A high-level committee has been convened encompassing representatives from all the security apparatus to oversee this investigation," Anes Alazabi, an official with the internationally recognized government of Libya's Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency, told CNN.
"Priorities of the investigation are not only to convict those responsible for these inhumane acts, but also to identify the location of those who have been sold in order to bring them to safety and return them to their countries of origin."
Alazabi's agency will be overseeing the probe. Part of its work will be to assess whether all the locations of these auctions are under the control of the United Nations-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli.
The International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental organization based in Geneva that focuses on migration management, welcomed the investigation. But its chief of mission for Libya warned in an interview with CNN's Nima Elbagir "that the smuggling networks are becoming stronger, more organized and better equipped."
"We definitely welcome the news for any investigation and we hope that this will cover not only this case but definitely all the cases of abuse and violence against migrants in Libya," Othman Belbeisi said from Tunis.
Source: CNN
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Do they value their lives at all? I dont intend flying an airplane that would even transit in an Arab country, let alone seeking greener pasture there.
***barred word*** ***barred word*** ***barred word*** African Union(AU) and ECOWAS. Our leaders pretend not to hear about this until UN Secretary General speaks about it. What is wrong with our leaders. Highly ***barred word***, only interested in filling their mouths and stomach but not to care about us. Aa, its sad. This video came out over 2 months ago and I never heard AU nor ECOWAS say nothing about it. What are we doing to ourselves? Very very sad.
I think it is now time for Ecowas to react as a Body, by Attacking Libya. I really dont know what African Politicians think. I think the African Union and Ecowas Leaders are good for nothing. This is painful and insult, for the Black Race, to allow Arabs to repeat Selling us, like what they did centuries ago.