“They were holding the Kalashnikovs against us, we couldn’t ask any questions. We boarded the container without knowing where they were taking us.” They were arrested in the African neighbourhoods of Tripoli by Gaddafi’s soldiers and were forced to embark for Lampedusa. The ticket is on the house, provided by the regime. Definitely not voyages of hope, the crossings of the Mediterranean look more like actual mass deportations of Africans from Libya. Systematically organized by the army of the dictatorship. A well-proven system which has managed to expel 14.000 people to Italy in three months.
The idea is simple: to use the bodies of men, women and children in reprisal for the bombardments in Libya. With an appalling detail, which is very revealing of the relationship between Italy and Libya. The trucks used during the raids are the ones that Italy gave to the Colonel at the time of the pushing back policies. Initially they used them to deport into the desert the Africans who had been pushed back at sea. Today they’ve only changed direction. And instead of deporting them into the Sahara, they deport them to Italy.
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