For migrants from sub-Sahran Africa, Libya was a destination even before Muammar Qaddafi fell in 2011, and the country turned itself in a boat launch to Europe. Perhaps 60 percent end up staying, often as indentured servants earning their way out of detention centers or passage on a boat. They are vulnerable both to their controllers and to militiamen who stop them at a checkpoint and deliver them to detention centers that double as clearing houses. Read More: Inside the Libyan Detention Centers Where Humanity Ceases to Exist“This is not just smuggling migrants. “And detention centers serve as distribution points.”Nominally under control of one of two competing, interim governments, the centers are in fact controlled by militias, according to human rights activists.

Source: Libya Today October 21, 2016 16:07 UTC