Social media has been blowing up since CNN’s exclusive piece on the slave trade auctions in Libya came out.
We’re having a difficult time wrapping our heads around the despicable fact that human beings are being bartered like cattle in this 21st century, and what’s worse is the Libyan authorities say they couldn’t act because they’d only heard rumours and had no evidence. Unbelievable that it took CNN for the Libyan authority to get evidence of atrocities taking place within its borders.
Twitter is taking this hard:
https://twitter.com/Jerminah_Belle/status/935761744940683265
Why is the world not in uproar!?! SLAVERY is happening in Libya, RIGHT NOW. In 2017!! My heart is breaking – no race is superior to another. I beg you to spread the word and help these people. We must stop this! pic.twitter.com/yuwT4GpaT0
— Amy Jackson (@iamAmyJackson) November 29, 2017
In the 21st Century, a human being selling another human being? WTF!!!Then the government says its not been aware? Is this the price of post-Gadaffi liberation? Libya opens investigation into slave auctions following CNN report @CNNAfrica https://t.co/RjaBFCDbj9
— Job Isaac Murithi (@JobIsaacMurithi) November 19, 2017
https://twitter.com/Pkalitha/status/935787341410656256
The current slave auctions of Africans in Libya are not only gross and scandalous abuses of human rights, but are also mockeries of the alleged solidarity of African nations grouped in the African Union (AU), of which Libya is a member.
— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/935815233934827521
https://twitter.com/JustZamore/status/935764814982500352
https://twitter.com/Tunnyking/status/935749831942959105
https://twitter.com/Burmese_Tyga/status/935787347639226368
If Gaddafi wasn't eliminated… None of this slavery situations going on in Libya would be happening right now.
But let white man tell you he was terrible & needed to go.
— Losgiddy (@LOSGIDDY) November 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/Madumetja_Sol/status/935795122326966272
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/935521590099537920
Libya is breaking my heart. What's the way forward? Like what needs to happen for the world to act? And what would that action even be?
— K10 (@officiallyk10) November 29, 2017
It took 6 years for Britain's facilitation of terrorism in Libya to be mentioned in the mainstream media, 6 years for the slave trade established by the British & French war on Libya to result in outrage & 2 years before it was mooted the Brits & US engineered a famine in Yemen.
— Crimes of Britain (@crimesofbrits) November 29, 2017
If you are an African President, slaves in Libya don't need your prayers & tweets, they need your resources and clout to get them out.
— Texture (@TexturePresents) November 29, 2017
People love to talk about how they wouldn't have tolerated the enslavement of other humans had they been alive during the transatlantic slave trade.
Libya is all here up in your face and you're Ray Charlesing di ting.
— Kelechi (@kelechnekoff) November 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/ife_luv12/status/935785176633892864
https://twitter.com/Beanchesterr/status/935782212858974208
Assisted? Lol. Nigerians and Ghanaians run these things all over Libya. Spent 3 hours listening to (part of) a returnee’s account yesterday.
Twitter is the only place we fight. https://t.co/mC5F8z3FfA
— Eromo Egbejule (@EromoEgbejule) November 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/OsasCruz/status/935846179782393857
President Buhari can do the following to assist Nigerians being sold as slaves in Libya:
* Summon the Libyan Ambassador
* Recall Nigerian diplomats in Libya
* Send charted flights to rescue Nigerians trapped in Libya
* Send a Nigerian Naval vessel to rescue stranded Nigerians— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) November 29, 2017
Today the Ghanaian President has spoken and acted against the Libyan slave auction, joining @PaulKagame. I wonder if President Buhari would have been this slow to respond if it had been precious cattle rather than human beings that are being sold in Libya?
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) November 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/WilliamAdoasi/status/935798026882486272
https://twitter.com/WilliamAdoasi/status/935811899442237442
https://twitter.com/Ali_McHenri/status/935827403074670592
