Italian police say dozens of Lampedusa boat tragedy victims were raped and tortured in Libya.
Aljazeera, Last updated: 08 Nov 2013 19:23
Dozens of the people who were on the boat that sank near the Italian coast last month were raped and tortured in Libya before starting their journey, Italian police said.
The police revelation on Friday came after they announced the detention of Mouhamud Elmi Muhidin, a Somali citizen, who is believed to be the alleged organiser behind the smugglers’ ship packed with migrants that sank off the coast of a southern Italian island, killing more than 365 migrants.
According to migrants’ testimony, the 20 women in the group were repeatedly raped and offered to Libyan visitors “as if they were a cup of tea”.
Muhidin, Libyan militiamen and Sudanese traffickers all took part in the alleged assaults in a detention centre in Sabha in southwest Libya, that Italian prosecutor Maurizio Scalia likened to “a concentration camp”.
“They forced us to watch our men being tortured with various methods including batons, electric shocks to the feet. Whoever rebelled was tied up,” read the testimony of a 17-year-old Eritrean girl in the investigation, Italian newspaper La Repubblica daily reported.
The migrants were forced to pay up to $3500 for their freedom and their onward journey to the Libyan coast and a boat to Italy.
“The women who could not pay were assaulted,” the girl was quoted as saying in her criminal charge.
She also described in horrific detail her own sexual assault, saying that Muhidin was one of the three men who raped her.
“They threw me on the ground, held down my arms and covered my mouth, and poured gasoline on my head, which burned my scalp, skin and eyes,” she said through a translator. “And then, not yet happy, the three took turns raping me.”
YG does it again in his recent explosive article. The article is so honest, it hits the reader very hard.
“The Lampedusa tragedy is just a simple reminder that the child was in fact dead on arrival. A whole nation is lost in the high seas, traversing between menkesakesi and mewesawesi. Any revolution based on this trivial distinction has to be the dumbest imaginable!”
Saudi Arabia, stop the barbaric treatment of Ethiopians NOW!
Lets denounce the barbaric act of the Saudi on Ethiopians and Eritreans. The video posted in tgrai on-line is very mind blowing and we must stand against these barbaric act which devastated our citizens in sinai desert by Bedouin.
The Saudis and Bedouin must be held accountable to the barbaric inhuman acts.
Kombishtato November 10, 2013
ኤርትራውያን መጻወቲ ዓረብን ማፍያታቶምን ክንከውን ዝገበረና እንታይ ኮን እዩ ፧ ገና ውርደትናን ሕሰምናን ኣብ ሃገራት ዓረብ ይቕጽል ኣሎ። ብኣሸሓት ዝቑጸሩ ኤርትራውያን ኣብ ሃገራት ዓረብ ይሳቐዩን ይዋረዱን ከምዘለዉ ትፈልጡ ዶ ፧ እቶም ውጻእ ቅዝፈት ደሴት ላምፔዱዛ ዝኾኑ ኤርትራውያን ካብ ዝ ሃብዎ ምስክርነት፣ ኣልጀዚራ እንግሊዝኛ ካብ ዝጸብጸበቶ እነሆ፤
Lampedusa boat victims raped and tortured
Italian police say dozens of Lampedusa boat tragedy victims were raped and tortured in Libya.
Aljazeera, Last updated: 08 Nov 2013 19:23
Dozens of the people who were on the boat that sank near the Italian coast last month were raped and tortured in Libya before starting their journey, Italian police said.
The police revelation on Friday came after they announced the detention of Mouhamud Elmi Muhidin, a Somali citizen, who is believed to be the alleged organiser behind the smugglers’ ship packed with migrants that sank off the coast of a southern Italian island, killing more than 365 migrants.
According to migrants’ testimony, the 20 women in the group were repeatedly raped and offered to Libyan visitors “as if they were a cup of tea”.
Muhidin, Libyan militiamen and Sudanese traffickers all took part in the alleged assaults in a detention centre in Sabha in southwest Libya, that Italian prosecutor Maurizio Scalia likened to “a concentration camp”.
“They forced us to watch our men being tortured with various methods including batons, electric shocks to the feet. Whoever rebelled was tied up,” read the testimony of a 17-year-old Eritrean girl in the investigation, Italian newspaper La Repubblica daily reported.
The migrants were forced to pay up to $3500 for their freedom and their onward journey to the Libyan coast and a boat to Italy.
“The women who could not pay were assaulted,” the girl was quoted as saying in her criminal charge.
She also described in horrific detail her own sexual assault, saying that Muhidin was one of the three men who raped her.
“They threw me on the ground, held down my arms and covered my mouth, and poured gasoline on my head, which burned my scalp, skin and eyes,” she said through a translator. “And then, not yet happy, the three took turns raping me.”
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/11/lampedusa-boat-victims-raped-an-tortured-201311817482583908.html
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Kombishtato November 10, 2013
YG does it again in his recent explosive article. The article is so honest, it hits the reader very hard.
“The Lampedusa tragedy is just a simple reminder that the child was in fact dead on arrival. A whole nation is lost in the high seas, traversing between menkesakesi and mewesawesi. Any revolution based on this trivial distinction has to be the dumbest imaginable!”
http://www.asmarino.com/articles/1923-i-kebessa-eritreas-suicide-mission-from-sahel-to-lampedusa-the-other-war3
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hailu November 11, 2013
Saudi Arabia, stop the barbaric treatment of Ethiopians NOW!
Lets denounce the barbaric act of the Saudi on Ethiopians and Eritreans. The video posted in tgrai on-line is very mind blowing and we must stand against these barbaric act which devastated our citizens in sinai desert by Bedouin.
The Saudis and Bedouin must be held accountable to the barbaric inhuman acts.
please stand with this victims tomorrow they will also attack Eritreans.
http://www.tigraionline.com/articles/saudis-killing-ethiopians.html