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[I]n March when reports surfaced that Qaddafi was offering upwards of one thousand U.S. dollars a day for Tuareg to help his regime put down the festering rebellion. Officials from Mali and Niger reported convoys of vehicles bearing hundreds of Tuareg men streaming northeast toward Libya.
One Thousand bones a day! They made a killing.
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory... More by Charles Mudede
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Some of the dead were on stretchers, attached to intravenous drips. Some were on the back of an ambulance that had been shot at. A few were on the ground, seemingly attempting to crawl to safety when the bullets came.
Around 30 men lay decomposing in the heat. Many of them had their hands tied behind their back, either with plastic handcuffs or ropes. One had a scarf stuffed into his mouth. Almost all of the victims were black men. Their bodies had been dumped near the scene of two of the fierce battles between rebel and regime forces in Tripoli. …
The atrocities have apparently not been confined to Tripoli: Amnesty International has reported similar violence in the coastal town of Zawiyah, much of it against men from sub-Saharan Africa who, it has been claimed, were migrant workers.
I wonder how many of them actually got paid.
Tuaregs can’t really be described as “black African”. They look more like Arabs or Berbers. Just saying.
I think the marketing dept at VW just threw up in their collective mouths.
Black Africans in Lybia had always been treated like garbage by Lybians. They were basically slave labor during the dictatorship. The hatred towards them has always been there. Now, with these mercenaries helping the murderous regime, the hatred towards them will worsen. if I were a black african worker in Lybia Id get the hell out yesterday. The murder towards them will be ignored and Lybians will say they were mercenaries.