Over three hundred West African migrants were massacred on
Friday, in Libya in cold blood by the terrorist group ISIS, the Freedom
Newspaper has gathered. The migrants were rounded up at a slum very
close to the sea in Tripoli, where they were hosted by human traffickers
destined to be trafficked to Italy, sources told this medium. Armed
ISIS terrorists raided the slum on Friday, New Year’s Day, and executed
the migrants in grand style. Among the executed include: Gambians,
Senegalese, Nigerians and other West African nationals.
Speaking to the Freedom Newspaper, Lamin Khan, a
Gambian based in Germany, said he received a phone call from one of the
escaped migrants, one Sarahule man, who goes with the first name Omaro.
Mr. Khan said Omar explained to him, how the ISIS terrorists raided the
slum and executed the migrants—numbering over three hundred of them.
Omaro, he said, was able to secretly photograph the execution of the
migrants by the ISIS terrorists. Khan also said the ISIS flag was
displayed during the execution of the migrants.
“This is too stressful. They killed a lot of people, including
Gambian migrants. The man speaking on the audio is Omaro. He is speaking
in the Sarahule dialect,” Mr. Lamin Khan told the Freedom Newspaper.
“We are still trying to gather more information in regards to the
ISIS execution of the migrants in Libya. I tried calling Omaro, but his
cellular phone is off. Their phones are off at this hour. I will send
you any information I receive from the survivors of the terrorist
attack,” Mr. Khan said in a Viber message to this paper.
According to Mr. Khan, there is no exact figure about the number of
Gambians killed during the ISIS New Year strike in Libya. He added that
based on the information he gathered from one of the survivors Omaro, a
good number of Gambian migrants were killed. Mr. Khan said Omaro’s
brother is his roommate in Germany. He said he is devastated by the
incident.
Over the years, thousands of Gambian youngsters—men and women,
including members of the country’s security forces, have left the
country in search of greener pastures in Europe, through the risky back
way sojourn. The majority of those fleeing the country had to do with
economic hardship, political persecution, and the never ending
dictatorship under Yahya Jammeh’s watch.
The back way syndrome, has claimed many Gambian lives. Some of the
migrants died in the Sahara desert, while others often die in sea. ISIS
on Friday, raided the slum, where the migrants were awaiting to be
trafficked to Europe and killed them in a mass execution mock.
The European Union has been working vigorously to clampdown on the
illegal migration, but the problem still remains unresolved. Human
traffickers are still using Libya as an outlet to traffic West African
migrants. Libya has been rendered unstable since the fall of that
country’s late Defacto dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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