The following video shows what is being reported by CNN as a slave auction in Libya. Yes human beings being sold as merchandise. Yes we are living in 2017.
“I’m at $1500 n I wan $1550, $1550, bid on $1550, I’m at $1550 would you go $1550, $1550 …”
Modern Day Slavery Exposed in Libya!
The following video shows what is being reported by CNN as a slave auction in Libya. Yes human beings being sold as merchandise. Yes we are living in 2017. “I’m at $1500 n I wan $1550, $1550, bid on $1550, I’m at $1550 would you go $1550, $1550 …”
62 responses to “Modern Day Slavery Exposed in Libya!”
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REPARATIONS COMES IN MANY FORMS…
Personally, I never liked the idea of EU/UK paying reparations for the Atlantic African/Caribbean Slave Trade that their ancestors created and perpetrated for centuries against African people and their descendants, to those descendants in the form of money, there is too much existing greed and corruption in Black governments and organizations for there to be equal distribution of any cash or/for progressive development to benefit the whole population. .
The UK claims to be more interested in ridding the UK of modern day slavery, which they are ignoring is a direct spinoff of the original slave trade, that they themselves continued post abolition of slavery and which morphed into modern day slavery to this day and which they are directly responsible for promoting….the EU/UK designers and perpetrators of modern day slavery are very much alive…and should pay, in some form.
The descendants of indentured servants and those who were deported from UK in 1640s-1700s to Barbados have been practicing modern day slavery on the island for decades, post independence, against the majority Black population…..modern day slavery is a crime.
…. in keeping with their desire to rid the UK of modern day slavery, maybe UK should take a look at giving the Black governments in Barbados and other Caribbean islands the help with more structured legislation and the tools they need to arrest the perpetrators of modern day slavery in the minority population of Barbados, particularly in the minority business community, these descendants of indentured servants who now pretend to be white elite slave masters….
…….and particularly the white EX-pats from UK and other foreign jurisdictions who believe they are entitled to practice modern day slavery against the Black population….when they are allowed into the islands to do business.
If the UK is ridding themselves of modern day slavery because of its destructive forces, there is no reason why Irish, Scottish, Welsh or British descendants who are minorities in Barbados and the Caribbean, should be allowed to continue the practice….no reason at all.
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EU is always with the modern day slavery and thefts, the French are particularly………méchant..
…..Africa gotta do something.
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) is an organization of eight West African states. It was established to promote economic integration among countries that share the Communauté Financière d’Afrique (CFA) franc as a common currency. The currency is issued by the Banque Centrale des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (BCEAO), located in Dakar, Senegal, for the members of the UEMOA. The union administers the West African CFA franc, now a Euro-pegged currency that is used in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.
UEMOA was created by a Treaty signed in Dakar on 10 January 1994, by the heads of state and governments of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. On 2 May 1997, Guinea-Bissau became the organisation’s eighth (and only non-Francophone) member state.
On 20 January 2011, the UEMOA announced that it was drafting a code that will state how member states can negotiate investments with China, as reported by the Dakar-based newspaper Sud Quotidien, citing the union’s commissioner, Joseph Marie Dabré. The report said that the code would require Chinese state companies to receive approval from the Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso-based union before investing in any of the zone’s eight individual states. Mining agreements between China and countries in the union would fall under the terms of the code, according to Sud Quotidien.
However, you do not have to look too far to notice that the UEMOA countries’ French-controlled CFA franc is just slavery and colonialism by another name. It therefore beggars belief that the UEMOA should draft a new trade code for Chinese investments and not for the French ones in the first place!
The former president of the Ivorian National Assembly, former Finance Minister and economist, Professor Mamadou Koulibaly, labeled the French-led CFA franc arrangement as ‘financially repressive, unfair and morally indefensible’, in an interview with the London-based New African Magazine last year.
It has become vital today for the CFA franc to acquire its own existence, free of colonial stranglehold…After the break; the ex-CFA zone must construct its own system based on simple principles. These include: establishing direct access to international markets without having to pass through a tutor [read France]; and without a monetary guide [read France]; establish a simple fiscal system and not complicated tax codes that are incomprehensible; have flexible exchange rates vis-à-vis major currencies.
Professor Koulibaly believes that done within a democratic dispensation, free trade will do the rest for the benefit of Africa.
As it unbelievably exists today, Professor Koulibaly explained that, ‘the foreign reserves of the CFA African states are deposited in the French Treasury, but no African country is capable of telling you exactly how much of this hard-earned foreign reserves belong to them. Only France has the privilege to that information’.
As Professor Koulibaly lamented, francophone Africans have been reduced to ‘taxpayers for France [remember the 65% of hard currencies that the 14 CFA zone states are obliged to deposit yearly in the French Treasury]…Yet our people neither have French nationality nor access to the public goods and services made available to other French taxpayers’.
In the same New African report, Senegalese President Wade was clear and direct: ‘Central bank reserves of member states must be returned to member states in one way or another. I insist on this, and particularly because we have been raising this issue for a long time’. President Wade ‘deplored the fact that close to 1,500 billion CFA francs generated from the surplus of West African states’ foreign reserves are placed on the foreign stock markets and out of the reach of the Africans who own the money’.
The CFA franc and its archaic arrangement with the French Treasury in Paris is indeed a slave deal. And this is how the slave deal works as elaborated by the London-based Professor Dr Gary Busch:
France’s corrupting influence in Africa
The French Treasury is holding billions of dollars owned by the African states of the francophone nations of West and Central Africa in its own accounts and invested in the French Bourse or Stock Exchange. The Africans deposit the equivalent of 85% of their annual reserves in these accounts as a matter of post-colonial agreements and have never been given an accounting for how much the French are holding on their behalf, in what have these funds been invested, and what profit or loss there have been.
The French have been acquiring and holding the national reserves of 14 countries since 1961. Even allowing for losses and expenditures in keeping the CFA franc viable, the French are holding about at least 400 billion dollars of African money, wholly unaccountably to the money’s putative owners, the African states. Even Bernie Madoff couldn’t have constructed a Ponzi scheme that large without being exposed.
This ‘bargain’ was made between the African former colonies and the French as part of the Pacte Coloniale which accompanied their independence and controlled through a single currency, the CFA franc. This was largely the work Jacques Foccart, the chief adviser for the government of France on African policy as well as the co-founder of the Gaullist Service d’Action Civique (SAC) in 1959 with Charles Pasqua, which specialised in covert operations in Africa.
It was Foccart ‘the eminence grise’ who negotiated the Pacte Coloniale with the evolving French West African states who achieved their ‘flag independence’ in 1960. Not really having planned for it, de Gaulle had to improvise structures for a collection of small newly independent states, each with a flag, an anthem, and a seat at the UN, but often with precious little else. It was here that Foccart came to play an essential role, that of architect of the series of Cooperation accords with each new state in the sectors of finance and economy, culture, education, and the military.
There were initially 11 countries involved: Mauritania, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Niger, Chad, Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, and Madagascar. Togo and Cameroon, former UN Trust Territories, were also co-opted into the club. So, too, later on, were Mali and the former Belgian territories (Ruanda-Urundi, now Rwanda and Burundi, and Congo-Kinshasa), some of the ex-Portuguese territories, and Comoros and Djibouti, which had also been under French rule for many years but became independent in the 1970s. The whole ensemble was put under a new Ministry of Cooperation, created in 1961, separate from the Ministry of Overseas Departments and Territories (known as the DOM-TOM) that had previously run them all.
The key to all this was the agreement signed between France and its newly-liberated African colonies which locked these colonies into the economic and military embrace of France. This Colonial Pact not only created the institution of the CFA franc, it created a legal mechanism under which France obtained a special place in the political and economic life of its colonies.
The Pacte Coloniale Agreement enshrined a special preference for France in the political, commercial and defence processes in the African countries. On defence it agreed two types of continuing contact. The first was the open agreement on military co-operation or Technical Military Aid (AMT) agreements, which weren’t legally binding, and could be suspended according to the circumstances. They covered education, training of service personnel and African security forces. The second type, secret and binding, were defence agreements supervised and implemented by the French Ministry of Defence, which served as a legal basis for French interventions. These agreements allowed France to have pre-deployed troops in Africa; in other words, French army units present permanently and by rotation in bases and military facilities in Africa; run entirely by the French (and, incidentally, paid for by the Africans).
In summary, the colonial pact maintained the French control over the economies of the African states; it took possession of their foreign currency reserves; it controlled the strategic raw materials of the country; it stationed troops in the country with the right of free passage; it demanded that all military equipment be acquired from France; it took over the training of the police and army; it required that French businesses be allowed to maintain monopoly enterprises in key areas (water, electricity, ports, transport, energy, etc.). France not only set limits on the imports of a range of items from outside the franc zone but also set minimum quantities of imports from France. These treaties are still in force and operational today.
CFA Franc countries
One of the most important influences in the economic and political life of African states which were formerly French colonies is the impact of a common currency. There are actually two separate CFA francs in circulation. The first is that of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) which comprises eight West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. The second is that of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) which comprises six Central African countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon), This division corresponds to the pre-colonial AOF (Afrique Occidentale Française) and the AEF (Afrique Équatoriale Française), with the exception that Guinea-Bissau was formerly Portuguese and Equatorial Guinea Spanish).”
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Have Barbadian Muslims condemned Libyan slavery? Have they been asked by the press for an opinion? What do our politicians think? Are the reparationists demanding reparation from the |Libyans?
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Hal
Slavery is wrong all people should condemn it.
…..what point are you making above about reparationists demanding reparations from Libya.
…..Reparationists would need to target the areas around the Niger delta which is full of oil to get reparations.
…..I remember Obasanjo in Bim telling Commisiong that he could not support the cry for reparations as they would be culpable as well.
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I was trying to understand what Ha, Ha was talking about, the modern day slavery in Libya is recent. …like last month, that is why it’s called modern….day…..
…. the dude being sold is a Nigerian….so how does reparations factor in when he is still enslaved and his family in Nigeria will more than likely have to pay for his release.
Now if the self proclaimed journalist had read the article…he would know this.
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@Vincent,
Slavery is wrong and everyone should condemn it, but do they. We cannot assume other people’s moral positions. The point about reparations is that if reparations should be paid for \African chattel slavery, then the Libyans should also pay for refugee slavery is that correct. -
Hal
I have never nor will ever be a proponent of reparations.
…damages yes,as in the case of the present day auction by some Libyans of their fellow humans,thanks to the west having driven them to poverty and see an answer in the iniquitous trade in slaves.
….those that participate (buyer&seller) should be charged and fined in order to compensate the person sold.
…..We know something is wrong…..why do we need validation from others in order to open our mouths…..leave out the moral talk,its a crime against humanity and has so been designated by the UN …….simple.
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Dr SS PhD
Hmmm……I wonder why your parents did not support Mr D.D.Garner MP with this venture??
….Tuesday, May 01, 1951
….Back to Africa
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Dr SS PhD
Sorry about my inability to share the article on D.D.Garner MP for St.Philip in 1951.
….In essence he was leading another move to go back to Africa and I was wondering if your parents ever mentioned this and why they decided to stay in Bim?
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A light bulb in the fridge is brighter than HaHa and VH combined….
Surprised there were no sex tapes…..
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@ TG
A light bulb in the fridge is brighter than HaHa and VH combined….
Surprised there were no sex tapes…..
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How long has Bushie been saying that…?
…and there probably ARE tapes –But most likely these are too boring to be worthy of exposure…
LOL
ha ha ha
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