Europe’s paranoia about African migrants enabled the Libyan slave market

Europe’s paranoia about African migrants enabled the Libyan slave market

A man called out numbers against the murky darkness of the Libyan night: “400, 500, 600, 650.” These were bids in Libyan dinars during a slave auction. Video footage of these scenes, aired in mid-November by CNN, thrust concerns about the conditions facing migrants at Europe’s borders back into the spotlight. In response, the EU…