While Tripoli celebrates ‘freedom’, refugees from Africa fear for their lives
September 1, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
Free Libya’s first Eid al-Fitr out of the shadow of the dictator was a day of celebration and thanksgiving. A stream of families flocked to Martyrs’ Square, in the heart of Tripoli, in their best finery. Prayers were held by the roadside, women ululated, there was joyous laughter and ceremonial gunfire. But in another part of the Libyan capital the end of the holy month of Ramadan was being marked in a very different way. Huddled together in squalor, amid overflowing rubbish, in tents made out of rags and canvas, dozens of people, black migrant workers, whispered about what will happen to them. The refugees were frightened. The revolution has been accompanied by the killings of men from…
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