African Slaves ‘Mutilated and Cooked Like Kebabs’ by Libya Gangs

• Slave markets have sprung up in Libya following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
• Sub-Saharan African migrants heading for Europe are captured by gangs and exploited.

By Josh Robbins | 30 November 2017

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES — A former member of the Nigerian government has claimed his countrymen are being “captured, mutilated and cooked like kebabs” by slave traders in Libya.

Ex-culture minister Femi Fani-Kayode lamented the plight of sub-Saharan Africans who arrive on the Mediterranean coast dreaming of a new life in Europe only to be forced into slavery.

In April, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) warned migrants were being sold at public slave markets in the country.

It said at least 20,000 migrants are held by criminal gangs in detention centres in Libya.

Cambridge educated Fani-Kayode said that three quarters of the people detained by criminal gangs in the region had come from southern Nigeria.

He wrote: “75% of those sold into slavery in Libya who have their organs harvested, bodies mutilated and who are roasted like suya [an African kebab] are from southern Nigeria.

“Roasted alive! This is what Libyans do to sub-saharan Africans who are looking for a transit point to Europe. They sell them into slavery and either murder, mutilate, torture or work them to death.” […]