Once we thought having slaves, and buying and selling slaves was over. Its starting up again. Migrants in Libya are being sold for at least 400 US dollars. The people were going to Libya for a new start at life, but once they got there, they were on “sale” for auction. Human beings are being sold again, not pieces of land, not animals, not cars, but human beings. Slavery was abolished for a reason and the reasons are definitely still valid today. “Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he’ll dig,” the salesman, dressed in camouflage gear, says. “What am I bid, what am I bid?” Buyers raise their hands as the price rises, “500, 550, 600, 650 …” Within minutes it is all over and the men, utterly resigned to their fate, are being handed over to their new “masters.” This was a piece of what was said while “auctioning off” a male man. Trying to sell him like a piece of machinery. CNN was told about NINE auctions but there are believed to be more in Libya. But a recent clampdown by the Libyan coastguard means fewer boats are making it out to sea, leaving the smugglers with a backlog of would-be passengers on their hands. So basically the smugglers become masters, the migrants and refugees become slaves. How this came to mind again, is absolutely terrible, no one should be put in this decision as even a last resort. This needs to be stopped a once and final time.
