01 January 2009

Border Sahara: the detention centres in the Libyan desert

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Polizia all'esterno della feritoia di un camionSEBHA – “With us, in the truck, there was a four year old child, with his mother. We were crammed like animals inside the lorry, with no air and no space to move. I wondered how a child could be put in these conditions. Inside the container it was very hot. The journey took 21 hours, from 4 pm to 1 pm the following day. They didn’t give us anything to eat. People urinated one in front of the others. When the drivers stopped to eat, we put the child against the narrow windows of the container. His name was Adam. Finally we arrived in Kufrah. When I got out I stole some bread which had been hung outside the container. We had not eaten since the previous day. We were 110 people. Including the four year old boy, Adam and his mother”. [1]