Smugglers in Libya are auctioning migrants off as slaves. At a property outside Tripoli, CNN's Nima Elbagir witnessed a dozen men go under the hammer in the space of minutes.
@@555125kevin slavery has existed way before "Arabs" were a thing. But in pre-modern times I think you mean Arabs and Europeans have done most of the buying and trading. We know recent things in history best, but far back in ancient history all kinds of peoples practiced slavery.
@@ianofliverpool7701 Lebanon is 40% Christian for fuck sake, plenty of other Middle Eastern countries have significant religious minority groups which have co existed for over a thousand years. You can just look at the native populations which to a great extent experienced genocide during colonisation from "Christians" and decide how much of both a false and hypocritical statement you want to make. The extremists that are running around today are a more modern phenomenon so I don't know what you mean by "some time". Unfortunately it appears to be largely bankrolled and supported by those "fighting the war on terror" who do so by supporting terrorists. It's a real 4d chess move. Lets destabilise a bunch of nations by taking out their leaders then flood country with weaponry and see what happens. Oh lets also ally ourselves with some of the greatest religious fundamentalists and in fact supporters of extremism as well. The leaders they were overthrowing were some of the most secular, just read up on the Ba'athist movement which was strong in Iraq and Syria. The only thing that makes sense (other than the assumption that there is a gross level of ineptitude) is that the goal is exactly to destabilise the region. That is achieved by overthrowing governments and arming terrorists. Just do a google search on Timber Sycamore and come to your own conclusions.
@@Radmils So what if Lebanon is 40% Christian its also 54% muslim in a country that was once majority Christian in my lifetime and everywhere were muslims are the majority they treat the Christian minority like they`re beneath them and persecute them daily. Do you doubt this fact?
@Zz Z I agree with all you said. He made some really good improvements for his people but what I was refering to is that he had bad traits and eccentricities as well and his enemies took advantage of these. Something like Chavez/Maduro and many other figures: good policies for the lower classes but some bad traits that their enemies (USA and lapdogs) exploit
@Zz Z any evidence of those claims? He was also a rapist: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/gadhafi-s-crimes-revealed-1.5315653 Also an article written in 2004 states that you still needed health insurance in Libya. Plus, if the people there loved him so much, why did they all willingly overthrow him?
Master Yoda the revolution organized by the west as usual using others tribes against kaddaffi promising them that they will have power by replacing kaddaffi, are you kidding me, you are very ignorant about geopolitic , in Africa once a leader works for the prosperity of his people he must go because he works against the interests of the west and his multinationals indeed kaddaffi was loved not only by most of his people but by also by africans of course no one is perfect, west leaders are lesser perfect than the late kaddaffi that’s the reality and the truth.
@@JohnKobaRuddy Truth. This is fake journalism posing as real journalism. They went out of their way to avoid telling the truth about how any of this happened.
This actually wasn't journalism. It's the opposite. This was CNN pretending to cover this story, while going out of their way to avoid explaining who did it or what happened or who is responsible.
But they don’t tell you US foreign policy under Obama/Biden is the reason you are watching this reality they created. Go back to what journalism? A video with no context?
This is taunting. Africa failed its youth. As an African I have no words to express my sadness. The root cause is brutal opression, neglect and lack of opportunity in our own home lands. It is true for Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan etc. Those who are exploiting this sad situation of our youth will be held accountable.
Griez Mann What does it matter which region they are from? The enslavement of another human being is wrong no matter the case. Now is not the time to be separating each other, it is the time to stand together as Africans. If you're African then you should know better than anyone else that corruption is deep in many countries in Africa even the ones that are well off.
This didn't happen when he ruled over Lybia. He was a dictator but most people lived good lives, with all necessities of lives provided. Gaddafi kept the migrants from trying to immigrate to Europe and they knew that and stayed at home. Now they come in droves and become either victims of slavers or human smugglers. All thanks to Hillary Clinton who wanted to play Caesar.
The only reason we went after Gaddafi was because we was trying to buy and sell oil with gold not the us dollar. Same reason we went after Saddam Hussain, I find it disturbing how few Americans know about our deal with Saudi Arabia to force the world to by oil with American dollar, it's basically the only thing keeping the dollar afloat. Almost every conflict we have bin in in the last 30 or so years is because of the Petro dollar, if you don't know what I'm talking about you really need to Google it.
@@spams9359 *No, Trump is nothing like the former administration, #44.* *Trump has no desire to enslave people in Venezuela, Syria or anywhere else. It was Hillary Clinton who said, referencing the brutal killing of Libya's Qaddifi; "We came, we saw, he died!"*
@@JanderStrahd are you slow? This from the power vacuum from taking out Gaddafi.. Notice how America invades a country and it turns into a chaotic shit hole? No? Pay attention. Moron.
There is very few if any places in Africa where you can see true leadership. Sadly it will take atleast a few more decades for them to be stable. My heart goes out to them.
G Holmes terrorism? define the word terrorism to me? you watch too much TV you know nothing about the real world but what you see on the news much like a puppet, you just follow.
+uTubekiidder You're absolutely right. You can say a lot of things about Gaddafi, but he kept a tight lid on Libya. And Saddam, while being a despot and tyrant, still managed to keep Iraq under control. All our meddling in the middle east brought nothing but destruction and chaos. Look what the Arab Spring produced: ISIS.
This is real journalism. Telling the truth and sharing stories about things that actually matter. This is heartbreaking. I wish I had a way to rescue all of these men.
It was spirit of humanitarians inventionism that led to this in the first place, unfortunately. Gaddafi was mowing down protestors from jets and pulling the plug on hospitalized dissenters, and the world was horrified. So we intervened. (Anyone who wants to be play "stick it to the man" and say NATO's intervention in Libya was about gold get STFU because you know that's irrelevant: whether that's true or not it wouldn't have caused things to turn out any differently)
You sound really ignorant...we can't even get equal rights here in the U.S. how can we fight a fight over there when we are fighting everyday over here for ourselves?
If the U.S. did decide to take action on it, it would only be another Vietnam type war for all the liberals to call for and then protest once it happens.
how did this became a race thing? it´s about politics and development assistance. The US government will only do anything if it´s in their interest and it´s not, because this will only cost them money. So you need to rely on people donating money to stop things like this, but it´s not a very well known issue and I think it happens only on a small scale.
Because their is rules to other countries. The u.s cant be be super heros all the time. This is sad. I cant imagine living thru this. But why let these ppl have control?. These ppl need to fight back.
Whether you liked Gadaffi or not, Libya had fought slavery, gave free health care, free education, social housing, was virtually debt free and owned its own oil. It was a bloodline for neighbouring African countries and opened up many opportunities and provisions. Since America's colonial conquest of a Sovereign country there we saw billionaire rebel leaders (like we see in Syria too), millions impoverished debt ridden Libyans and a country enslaved to Western banks! To the Libyan rebels who fought with the enemy, you have fought yourself into slavery.
I don't recall seeing "American colonials" dragging Gaddafi throught the streets and shoving a knife up his ass. And I don't see any at these slave markets? Strange? How about instead of whining about America this America that, they should fix their backwards ass countries. USA didn't bring poverty and slavery to Libya, the inbred throwbacks did it to themselves, like they do every single place they inhabit.
It's the same thing as Iraq and Gaddafi, ok he did some evil shit. But he held the majority of the country together then the fake war happened Purley to take their oil. The invasion forces leave and the country goes to shit. Sometimes you need a bad guy to control bad people. The world's just a fucked up twisted place that'll never be perfect. Unfortunately.
@@lordoutsmoke4725 if a few people dont care about blm doesnt mean the whole country dowsnt give a fuck about blm, I am libyan and I live here, america is much worse than libya when it comes to blm, I haven't seen a black person getting mistreated in YEEAARS, and now black people do just the same things as regular citizens, they have jobs, they have houses, they have families, the go to cafes, they shop freely now ,.... etc. But if you aren't Libyan than you dont have a right to talk about it. Edit: I was also born and raised in the USA and Libya so I have a right to talk about it
@Λίνα Μοργκάνα I’m not going to explain the whole story since it’s long. But you should do deep research and find out, that’s what politicians want. They want you distracted in your own world?
Griez Mann how did these people become enslaved? They chose to walk thousands of miles to go to a conflict area to risk their lives to be smuggled into Europe? Cmon they're easy prey. It's the Wild West in Libya nobody should be going there.
Griez Mann exactly that's because Kenya and Ethiopia are not conflict areas mate. The Arab world is in a brutal civil war and people should not immigrate there.
Griez Mann We have to work our differences and built our homes, fam. We horn africans have to work each other. France and Germany hated each other at one point but now they're allies. Let's make HOA great again.
@@danielbruuh1046 what the fuck are you talking about?? Ur comment dont even make sense. I think you meant to say, "this is still happening today in 2020, do ur research". Am I correct? Well first of all when I said this was filmed in 2017 I said that to emphasize when CNN reported it. No where in my post did I say it wasn't happening today, U would be ignorant to think this isn't going on in Muslim countries all over the world. So ur punk ass comment saying "do ur research". Shows how shallow and self centered u r. Time to grow up boy. Show u can comprehend what u read.
This is fake, I am not going to let someone sit there and badmouth my country it has and will be the star of Africa that has been shining for a 100+ years. Want proof that slave trade in Libya doesn't exist? instagram.com/p/CCrHDn7gdZq/?igshid=10qrkw7qh74p2 , so fuck eu cnn and all the petitions on this, the reason why African migrants are saying they get "beat up" or whatever, is cuz they're trying to get to italy and france and stuff, the caged people isnt a prison it's a place to hold until they get to italy, they have them in america when they deport people to Mexico and stuff. My country is the shining star and will always be. Free Libya 🇱🇾🇱🇾🇱🇾🇱🇾
@@blackgold1980 Downgraded countries have different reality than the more upgraded ones. Having lived in a peaceful community doesn't mean I am obliged to know about the brutal life of others. The world has always been evil, but as we envolve each century, I believed things are changing for the better for everyone.
@@byJessCh Things will never get better for everyone. This was just an illusion because technologically the human race was advancing but it was always barbaric and the stakes are higher now due to nuclear weaponry and other WMD.
It's time to look at trump's accomplishments in Lydia and Africa! What, he has done nothing to help these people, give them aid and force the Leaders to follow their Laws against Slavery?
@@rothutbiene bruh at least trump doesn't act like he had plans to help them. Fucking Obama acting like a goodytwo-shoes promising to do good then nothing happened. He helped in destabilizing libya I can tell you that. Which is a dumb thing to do
@@henrytuttle It's not just on CNN, this is all over the internet. There is a terrible suffering and a slave trade in Syria which was caused by the U.S. under Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Matthew Smith your right I’m black myself and I don’t believe in black lives matter or nun of that kinda stuff look at this video people are really being sold 😢
How many fucked up things have to happen in the world before we can start learning from the past. This wont end well for anybody. Shit like this shows a lot of peoples true colours, and i'm not talking about skin colour. Please help bring awareness to this, these are peoples brothers, fathers, sons, etc.
What? The United Nations is only as powerful as the government's allow it to be. The UN security council is controlled by the USA, France, UK, China and Russia who can block decisions.
iam Libyan , do not believe such lies ..the situation is bad ,but this is a made up story for a reason ,,,also notice how they are smiling and laughing at 0:30 ! its fake
Yaser Nor I knew something seemed off, because I too noticed the men smiling and laughing. I said to myself, "Why would anyone be so happy about being sold?" I should've known this was fake. I live in Dallas, Texas USA! When I saw that title, I just had to see this video. I guess people trying to make Libya look bad.
@Yaser Nor I am from Poland and I know that this is not true, in all Europe politicians try to convince people on TV that libi is so bad and they are slaves (Germany, France, UK, forgets that they did it themselves) they want Europeans to talk like that just to attack you later and we'll think we're helping you, it's terrible I'm not sure but I guess it is :( I also wanted to tell you that someone translated the green Kafafi book into Polish and had the opportunity to read a little, it seems to me that he had a great idea to create your country and that he was a great man, the Libyans think so too?
Henry Lindeman this might be the practice of Islam but there are other ones who are from multiple organizations around the world not associated with faith that practices slave trade from sex trafficking to anything that's United States of America the United Kingdom Russia Japan China Middle East it's everywhere
"When asked about the difference between good and evil ,a Negro chieftain declared : ' When i steal my enemy's wives is good, when he steals mine it is bad ' Carl Gustav Jung -The Archaic Man
Man, that is so sad, what US is doing to other countries, interfering and invading their political systems, just for the oil and money. They r not even hiding it anymore.
One man couldn't stop all this. Inevitable. But why doesn't America see this instead of crying about something that happened 400 years ago. Where are the Liberal tears?
Liberals don't give a shit about real slavery. They'd rather cry about things that happened 400 years ago. And Blacks won't help other Blacks but they will blame the White man for everything and cry victim for eternity.
@@terriesmith8219 U do know that slavery trade started after US intervention in Libya. Now Trump is in office, he is doing the same with middle eastern countries and soon Valenzuela. I am not blaming the whites but its surely a product of colonization and imperialism of the western world. So, Shut the fuck up.
@@parixita.9424 U.S. interfered in alot of countries yet alot of them doesn't end in slavery. And look at who is the actual slave masters, it's the Arabs, yet you only blame the U.S. government when it's actually the Arabs who are the slave masters. And it's the Black people who went into Libya, not the other way around. But of course, you won't point that important fact out because it doesn't fit your victimhood narrative. These Blacks deliberately travelled into Libya in hope of crossing into Europe for free European Welfare, but the Arabs in Libya make slaves of them instead. I see zero liberals doing anything to help these Blacks slaves. Where's the liberal outcry against the Arabs who enslaven these Blacks???
That's how it all started 400 years ago,but have the whites to blame is easier than admitting the real truth. Sad video here very sad,were is Farrakhan? I didn't think so
Im african, i personally know some really poor people but they’re not trying to leave their country, instead they are working. Some that I know left war zone, lost everything but still they’re trying to work in other countries. I cannot understand people leaving their continent for another continent like that. Maybe for studying or something else i would understand but they cannot tell me that in this big continent they found nowhere to go, war is not everywhere.
Kanouté Mahamad Al khabir Preach, brother. Mais tu connais la culture de ton pays. Je ne sais pas si tu es Malien, mais les soninké du Mali ne sont pas considéré comme de vrais hommes s'ils ne sont jamais parti "à l'aventure".
Domenico Coviello If in your statement you just assumed that the country of this arabs is not an African country? i’m done with you. Moreover let me get this straight. You’re talking about mess do you know what is a mess ? i’ve lived in africa most of my life and i’ve never seen a mess nor lived in it. i’ve had anything i wanted and you know why ? because my parents worked they worked hard enough in the “mess”. i’ve gone from a messy country to be a good student. If you say that some part are messy i’ll agree but generalizing an entire continent or country of messy is completely ignorant. I’ve seen some really ticked up place in Canada and the USA.
Can't agree more with you !!! Getting a better life ( in this case by crossing to Europe) does not deserve paying ones God Given dignity ! It is absolutely possible to succeed within Africa ! These immigrants share the blame for taking such an informed decision to take the road through Libya and also for not protesting when they are being sold ... better to die with dignity than being sold. Of course the biggest blame goes to their countries' governments who failed to provide opportunities for a better life ... the least they could do was to inform their citizens of the dangers of illegal immigration through Libya.... they failed to govern their countries. As to the Libyans who dared to go as far as auctioning human beings, it just shows how uncivilized/barbaric they are ... your level of morality is like form thousands of years ago:) Backward Backward, Backward !
dude get real, this has been corroborated all over Libya for a year now. Are you saying there are thousands of professional actors pretending to have been slaves?
@@rasheed9705 DW from Germany and other European news channels have confirmed the CNN report. Google: "Slave trade in Libya: Outrage across Africa | News | DW | 22.11.2017"
There shouldn’t be a black month history. When will there be an Asian, Latino, Jewish or Arab history month. I know what you saw is not allowed in Islamic law, newly made slaves must not be Jew, Christians or Muslim, just pagans. But you can buy if they are already enslaved. Usually we avoid buying Africans tbh.
@@Abeuniversal First, Christians are not pagans. 😂 So you are admitting that you own slaves? Everyone knows it’s happening there but I’ve never seen anyone admit it.
And people say "slavery is a thing of the past". This is still going on and its worse than ever. It's just not visible to the mainstream society. This needs more visibility.
And you can thank Trump for making it worse. The slave traders in Libya are quoting trump's "cnn fake news" bullshit and claiming these stories are not true. www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/28/libya-slave-trade-cnn-report-trump-fake-news www.politico.com/story/2017/12/08/trump-fake-news-despots-287129 www.metro.us/president-trump/despots-adopt-trump-fake-news-refrain www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/world/europe/trump-fake-news-dictators.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=00E7B6A06EEFD3C0C35075DDA28439C8&gwt=pay
I gave you links and proof and you still deny it? Where does this post say anything about trump being the cause of all that's wrong in the world? I said you can thank trump for making it worse and gave you evidence to back up that claim. And you STILL deny it. As for drone strikes: www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/25604-drone-strikes-up-432-percent-under-donald-trump www.thedailybeast.com/president-trumps-air-war-kills-12-civilians-per-day nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/u-s-air-strikes-are-killing-far-more-civilians-under-trump.html www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/opinion/isis-syria-iraq-civilian-casualties.html www.newsweek.com/president-trumps-isis-war-course-double-obamas-civilian-deaths-637538 www.aol.com/article/news/2017/07/17/civilian-deaths-under-trump-already-higher-than-during-obamas-entire-presidency/23034059/ news.vice.com/story/us-airstrikes-have-killed-more-and-more-civilians-in-iraq-and-syria-since-trump-took-office www.democracynow.org/2017/6/13/headlines/report_us_led_coalition_killed_more_syrian_civilians_than_isis_or_assad_in_may www.activistpost.com/2017/07/trumps-bombing-campaign-in-middle-east-has-already-killed-at-least-2200-civilians.html www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-admin-ups-drone-strikes-tolerates-more-civilian-deaths-n733336 www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Under-Trump-US-Kills-More-Civilians-in-Syria-Iraq-than-Russia-20170210-0026.html time.com/4713476/isis-syria-iraq-casualties-us-airstikes/ Your problem is you bitch and moan about obama and hillary yet dont acknowledge the FACT that trump is COMPOUNDING on their fuckups.
They've been buying and selling black people in the middle-east for over 1000 years, only way to get them to the middle-east is through North Africa.. they traded in white slaves once too, thats where the word comes from "slav". Whites bought slaves for a couple hundred years in small numbers compared to Africa.. then we banned it.. we still get blamed for it today, even though IT STILL CONTINUES WITHOUT US!! This has nothing to do with American foreign policy, everything to do with Islam.
Hard to even assume anything but I would guess they are confused and not fully aware of what's happening at this point. Likely being lied to at this point. Not like a lot of these migrants may not have had many educational opportunities. Prayers for everyone affected.
i am NOT the father As a Black American this is not our fight. These same immigrants come to our country where we’ve been for generations and look down on us while reaping the benefits of our grandparents and ancestors fight for freedom and equal rights. These people are African. TheirHome country should take care of them. I pray that their home countries get them out of this situation!
I mean they could just protest or even try those f$&@ing riots over at Africa instead of doing it here. If they’re such influential people, they could do same thing there. Not to mention, all of the social Justice warriors and ANTIFA could just armed themselves and go to Libya 🇱🇾 and free those enslaved people since they hate facism so much. 🤷
CNN supports and supported the actions that create these conditions across the world in the first place. The only reason you may here truth from them is because either it serves a greater agenda, or is by accident.
like when they showed propaganda do support the destabilization of libya so the US and France could have more power and influence over oil. Fuck Cnn and fuck the west bc this is all of their fault
i'm libyan and i'm so ashamed to see this happens in my country. i'm in tears to see what happens to these innocent people. we Never had this problem seven years ago but since hilary and obama insisted that we should have democracy things like that started to happen. i'm not trying to blame this awful crime on someone else it's our country and whatever happens is our responsibility. i'm still in shock
It's not just Libya. It's happening all over the Muslim world. In the open in Libya, W. Sahara and Mauritania....in secret in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar and Oman
I never thought I would live to see this happening in my lifetime, sad am prehistoric man born in a wrong generation. Very sad of what's become of this world, Africa in general
SMH. I'm not a particularly religious man but we need a modern day miracle. A burning bush, parting sea, SOMETHING, ANYTHING, so we can believe, again, in something greater than ourselves without looking inward. We need a tangible, in your face, miracle.
"Just take us home..." That's right. It's a shame that Afrikan leadership is such a disgrace and a sham. I understand the people feeling the need to escape but the majority of Afrikans stay put and build on what they have. It's victim mentality that pushes people to believe that things are "better" in the West. Some things like healthcare to an extent are. However, people in Afrika seem to be prepared to die to reach the West, but not to fight corrupt leadership and make a way in a land that has so much resource which is your birthright. Victim mentality of the people including leaders has Afrika on her knees. UHURU!!! #getupstandup
HookaSmokingCatapillar well said I really feel and believe that these are dark times we've been in and now so bad that the manifestations are blatant. My name Yewande YorubaGyal is all female by the way bro. 😗
