My brother, my brother, we are dead!”These are the calls of a group of migrants, trapped in Libya and circulated on Facebook. A video of about 260 mainly Somali and Ethiopian migrants held captive by criminal gangs in Libya has been circulating on Facebook. In it are dozens of Somali and Ethiopian migrants huddled in a concrete room, emaciated and desperate. The International Organization for Migration has asked Facebook to take down the video because it says the clips are being used to extort money. The search “migrants Libya” turns up dozens of harrowing videos of migrants being beaten, naked as they wash in an open room from a shared bucket, or washed up on the shore, dead.

Source: Ethiopian News August 31, 2017 04:52 UTC