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libya's mediterranean coast has become a death trap fit tens of thousands of refugees despite distractions imposed by the e.u. some humanitarian organizations are still trying to rescue migrants in distress at sea. welcome to what is some folks say were the traffickers accomplices but we're here because people are dying. before libya's coast guard picks them up these migrants who find themselves in one of the country's dreaded detention centers. it is hard to make. it right. here refugees are mistreated abducted or even killed the price. to speed up

everyone's a policeman in this country you don't know who's one for real. to escape the violence in libya many migrants risk their lives trying to cross the mediterranean . it's 10 pm with floating next to an oil rig around a 100 kilometers off the libyan coast on the lookout for a migrant. with filming with all night vision camera from onboard the ocean viking a rescue vessel its crew members have just responded to a mayday a distress call. i thought it was just if i were. an oil rig worker has just spotted the boat and radioed the captain. that i just

was on fire because. earlier merchant ship dealing with inflatable boats is always more stressful we don't have any information about its condition because you're sure you're going to church and. we'll be on site in half an hour let's move for but that was. captain tom de new is in charge of the rescue mission. for you the rescue workers use the night from the oil rig to guide them. i. mean it's later they find dozens of terrified men on board this inflatable but. it could capsize at any moment jim to the strong swell so to issues. preciso does to

keep everyone safe. legal. her family her. and her brother were heard on the net but it was. unsure if that nationality the rescue was addressed the survive as in english. everybody was like that. all the commotion inside the boat could cause someone to go as a brute and few of these people can swim like that so that now 10 or so. it looks a little. silly but. tony's message is received loud and clear. the men will be evacuated one by one. local police have to keep trying to come up there. certainly. was not closely what's the worst when the lives of others should be similar to

what the c.e.o. must get. on board the ocean viking crew members notice that some of the migrants have inhaled gas fumes during the rescue mission. one is in one way he's from cameroon. here are ok bad bad thing. without the volunteer rescuers help the 74 refugees and it was a very close call. for. the repeal it should take 30 or 200 in these conditions a mission completed with everyone safe and alive on board is simply miraculous. it's simply miraculous differ from north korea how do you feel exhausted. it's all the more miraculous because the mediterranean has turned into

a graveyard remnants of wrecks that washed up on shore best silent witness to the thousands of migrants who perished at sea. and. so on a simple 5 picked up dozens of dead bodies i've seen a few dozen people die right in front of me. and we've had to resuscitate at least a dozen children all more. and his crew set off from us a only ocean viking on october the 3rd 2019 the rescue mission was due to last a month chartered by s.o.s. maybe to honey and doctors without borders the ship replace their former vessel the aquarius they were forced to abandon the aquarius in december 28th season after it was stripped of its flocks there were 31 volunteers from france germany the u.k. the u.s. and egypt aboard the ocean viking. has already completed 4 missions with s.o.s.

military honey but this merchant navy officer continues to hone his lifesaving skills not come off with practice the most become automatic if we don't get the training are all now then in a crisis situation it's likely we won't do the most correctly flowers on it but now you just walk 3 miles in. the ocean viking is 69 meters long at the stern there is 6 containers 2 are reserved for food. how many more hours than. 5 hours duncan who is from the u.k. is in charge of the containers this one he hopes never to use this is a specially refrigerated container. always you go point by i don't show really we're trying to pay for everything. but yeah we'll see how it will respond michael. in recent years the mediterranean has become

a graveyard the u.n. h.c.l. estimates that since 2014 more than 18000 people have died or disappeared trying to cross it. soldier firefighter deep sea fisherman told he had several lives before he began a career in sea rescues. and sell his soul for the 3 years of service in this field i've seen more deaths more bodies and i've saved more people than in 12 years of service and other more traditional rescue services as the score for the son of. tony and his crew have one main objective identifying possible refugee butts i'm almost sure it's a wooden boat you know. it costs $14000.00 euros per day to fund the ocean vikings rescue missions so s.o.s. made it up on me and doctors without borders rely on donations from people across

europe these donations have also allowed the rescuers to purchase a quick mint including semi rigid inflatable boats with powerful engines which enable tony and his crew to quickly reach vessels in distress. first they distribute proper life jackets to the youngest on board to take a break. but. this is the 2nd rescue since the team left must say in less than 24 hours tony and his crew have saved $176.00 people now it's time to identify them. it's just so we know what country are you from ivory coast but mali higher up the number here. although you know 22. i'm 2625. a red wristband adults and a yellow one for minus there were 23 unaccompanied minors on this boat and

giving up on you i think the. key is from the u.k. before she retired she worked as a midwife her patient is a 24 year old woman from ivory coast who's 6 and a half months pregnant she escaped a libyan detention center with her other 2 children. along. the young woman appears indifferent towards her baby's heartbeat this reaction no longer surprises junkie who has already participated in several humanitarian missions she has encountered this complete lack of emotion before. pushing him on may i ask are you pregnant because you were raped ask yourself the feeling. no.

no it's ok you're happy you're pregnant. not too happy it will pass. it'll pass many women will deny having being raped or having to form what we call survival sex or transactional sex. i'm sure it's often it's not consensual i'm sure they wouldn't choose to be pregnant when they make this crossing. but for instance the other lady we've just seen said no no husband no father to the child. no i wasn't raped. i'm not sure that i believe that. rape is a to boot topic it's rare that these women will talk about it but this mother has agreed to she and her children were also in the libyan detail. santa. each police officer chooses someone hugely the smallest of the youngest girls they leave with them and sleep with them right next door then they bring them back. so every time i

look at my daughter i think of those girls straight away thank god at the time 2 years ago my daughter was still very small otherwise she'd have gone through the same thing it's. the best of it we were forced to stop washing ourselves in order to stay that way when the arab walked past you smell so bad that he wouldn't touch you because if you washed his he'd want to sleep with you straight off a lot of the. stories of rape and also the torture the rescue people on both the ocean viking are all in agreement it's a daily occurrence in libyan detention centers a man who is the comer weenie and he'll inhaled gas fumes doing the nocturnal rescue has recovered his strength he was also arrested and detained in libya for how long he doesn't know the torch and made him lose all sense of time.

now he opens up about it for the 1st time. i met him they take your hand and they put it on the ground like that they take the baton and they hit it if they hit your fingers if they break your fingers they beat us morning and night morning and night morning and night. in many ways it was arbitrary really detained in zawiya a city situated some 50 kilometers from the libyan capital tripoli most of the rescued people on the ocean biking have spent time in the detention center that. dong thing i just never advent there at around 730 or 8 pm they let us out to eat a large image i told myself it might be a good meal. it's boiled macaroni and. they heat it up to $100.00 degrees celsius $100.00 degrees you get a total of 2 minutes to eat it with your hands it's scalding hot. and then they

tell you go on put your hand. you eat 2 handfuls and they say go back to yourself. you're wasting time. go or will be chewing and break your ribs is a bore. him anyway managed to escape but to avoid being detained again there was only one solution risk his life at sea and she together with the libyan coast guard to try to arrest you what would you have done what based on the money personally i'd sooner have jumped into the sea then go back to libya and be. libya has been forever branded into the rescued people's minds we went to investigate the city on the other side of the horizon tripoli. since dictator muammar gadhafi was toppled in 2011 libyan militias have been

engaged in a merciless battle for oil and other riches in april 2900 general khalifa haftar troops began an offensive against the internationally recognized government in tripoli this triggered a bitter fight for control of the capital. at our hotel we were warned of the dangerous. kids who were you know she was of me but yeah you know you have brought me here i know i know to be able to do everything if we would normally you know. this from you. ok thank you thank you on the day of our arrival a military school was the target to vanessa strike. the following day the bodies of alleged martyrs which carried through the streets. to. the civil war here affects not only the libyans the refugees are also

myatt in the conflict we pass them at every roundabout always grouped together for protection. they're here to. search for work. a rare safe haven is the office of carry chast situated next to this church carriage house is a catholic and geo every friday after mass it opens its doors to migrants in need like this seriously no one helps us no one protects us it's a very difficult situation there are kidnappings and arrests they even took my son out of school so they could beat him we don't want humanitarian aid in libya we just want to get out of this country. leon works here she's from and is a refugee herself. constrained by the situation is really critical with the war not

ending and everything that lots of people don't have anywhere to live they don't have shelter. and there are some who have nothing to eat and who need money. she told this international. every week leon helps dozens of vulnerable individuals they come here from syria gambia or the central african republic like adele for his wife and their children. there are little things for the kids food for the babies some sweets. i don't agree to talk to us as long as we're discreet he and his family are hiding in this house. with the adults journeyed to europe began in 2013 he was a victim of the civil war in the central african republic he shows us where he got shot in the arm. so i can only move my arm this far it can't

go up here and just go. in the middle of the interview the day of great stone after leaving the central african republic his family made their way through chad and then to libya from here they tried to cross the mediterranean to europe. the libyan police caught us in the middle of the sea. they took us to zawiyah. me my wife and my child my family my wife was 7 months pregnant one circle. and girlfriend his family managed to escape the detention center in zawiyah. and their little girl was born in this house. 'd on july

23rd 2019. 'd 'd 'd 'd 'd the family has been stuck in libya for 2 years even though a death as a u.n.h.c.r. refugee card. ready ready ready ready ready ready ready ready ready ready in theory this card should allow him to access u.n. aid. well it's clear i'm a war victim feels as if the u.n.h.c.r. won't take any responsibility i don't even know why i keep this card it's useless. today adelphi risks leaving his house to go to un h.c.l. cinta office of the united nations high commissioner for refugees getting an appointment with someone there is his only hope of leaving libya without having to risk the mediterranean crossing. the adelphi is always on his gaunt. dumont everyone supposedly smile in this country you don't know who's one for real but who's the real policeman before sometimes they kidnap us and take us to unknown

location this is something. he always has the g.p.s. activated on his phone and. if i end up in an unknown location i can inform up rather quickly. and what could they do you never know. if i don't come home at least he be able to see where i disappeared those it's poet. i def is not the only one to risk everything for a meeting with the u.n. h.c.r. dozens of refugees like him awaiting that technically these documents should allow them to receive support. but the doors to the un refugee agency remain closed. last was. here and they're not going to open up some of my brothers have been waiting here

for 3 days from morning till night morning till night for 3 days some even for 4 days and they haven't opened up. like the others a day philebus empty handed the u.n. headquarters is situated in this suburb in tripoli just behind these walls it's impossible to enter this bunco without official authorization. before we managed to secure a meeting with caroline gluck a spokeswoman for the u.n. h.c.r. in libya she says the main reason refugees are stuck here is because few western countries a willing to take them in. we continue to press to be the moral conscience to urge governments to offer more space but where our purchasing and political environments many governments more concerned about public opinion. in

2019 some 46000 refugees were registered in libya less than 2 and a half 1000 were able to leave the country illegally the country in conflicts it's a country that doesn't recognize that they deserve protection and safety libya is probably one of the worst countries in the world to be a refugee or asylum seeker and there is a very high chance that you will be abused tortured physically. sometimes rape. this abuse most often occurs inside the country's detentions and tis there are dozens of official and clandestine centers throughout libya one of the most notorious detention centers is found in zawiya a port city located around 50 kilometers west of tripoli. both a deaf family and the money the cameroonian rescued by the ocean viking were detained there. we are still libyan government for permission to take

a look inside this and it was granted so we're going to find another way. on january 7th 2020 a protest in support of the government was organized we approached this man face name is khalid and he's a member of salvias council of elders. ok they are people from the libyan people will never forget who was on their side and who was against them. we're talking to those who claim to defend freedom. to france. this country was a prime supporter of khalifa haftar are the war criminal who wants to stage a coup. i know he. is angry he believes the west supports his enemy general khalifa haftar who allegedly bombed zawiyah 10 days prior to this protest khalid says shells landed

a few doesn't meet his from the detention center. to prove this he promises to bring us that. when we arrive in zawiyah khaled is then as promised but before we can enter the detention center we're told we must meet the man 1st. he has a message for us. so that we know asylum what they want to see this time it is it is that. many illegal migration is a disaster for the libyan people. libya is suffering because of it. there are thousands and thousands of migrants here and the government is covering their expenses with money that belongs to the libyan people even though they were colonized by other countries who took their wealth and forced them into poverty. and now they're dying on their way to europe you know. the man has forgotten an

important fact europe has allocated more than 400000000 euros to libya to help it tackled one migrant crisis. you see in libya we treat the migrants bury humanely when i meet a man that is. one of how we do our best to ensure they're treated well and humanely. concerned. then comes the moment we've been waiting for the do is to zawiya is detention center finally open for us. to. join the look as he will tell you more than 700 people are

housed in this center you don't know what it wasn't like i said the airstrike happened just next door and the migrants are over here. and. points out a man wearing dark glasses and combat fatigues he heads the campus of one of the they just want to film and talk to the prisoners did you notice in the field you don't follow through. we follow him and discover hundreds of detainees crouching in the courtyard there frozen in complete silence. on the way for the. cameras on to the camps director. says khan it peeks out cooling was. going to be a little too much normally i need official documentation from the ministry for the freedom to retreat. i spoke to the mayor about it yes he called me but i also need

to see some authorization just to give senator obama and i want to talk about the bombings that took place over there what i want to know today yeah they were all scared that day because that's it. that's what they want to talk about ok they can film and talk to 2 or 3 people here i mean you know the right kind is to get them to. lot about threats over the last 3 or 4 years we've been wrongly accused of being human traffickers and even of keeping the money all these organizations do their business and they intervene in internal affairs they spread chaos throughout libya. they profit from the migration problem and from other problems to see that stream. we don't even get 5 percent of the money from europe or from these organizations but you shouldn't. miss it in an attempt to convince us that the camp is a place where human rights are respected will lead to this church tent khalid says

it's proof if the libyan authorities kindness towards their christian detainees. then the knowledge that. this shows the positive work that we're doing here to help these people. we simply want to improve their circumstances. you know i mean you have superman with him and. here comes one of our christian brothers now. are you free to practice your religion comfortably here what is going to be by the end of the. interview yes it's comfortable here we got the opportunity to have a church in this country and we've seized that opportunity and said he had the a d.n.a. we respect all the christians here look they have complete freedom to know. the homework look ahead and. we take advantage of a moment of distraction to end to the main building where we discover an entirely

different reality. to. the detainee we met in the church tent that's a sin there are no gods in sight. for you to find you should speak english. in this cell hundreds of mattresses and blankets a piled on the floor proof that the detention center is overcrowded. and testimonies to the migrants suffering can be seen on the walls. blacks are not slaves in libya. it's the same in all the other cells. looking for. funding for. the bathrooms around sanitary they're the only source of water for the

hundreds of detainees. this dormitory where the prisoners are all squashed together also serves as a kitchen a portable gas stove is used to prepare the meal of the day popcorn another detainee has some stale bread and blankets in one of the. food. it's difficult to have a proper conversation with this man the people behind us seem to on no of him the father you can be sure here it's ok you know if that's the bad situation if what you want you want to escape from here you want to go home i think where is he i want to i just go on 3 about that for a layer. after a few minutes or absence is noted the director comes to find us himself he orders us not to use the videos filmed inside the center as this could but try it in

a bad light. never. back outside we spoke to a representative from the un refugee agency and approached him. to come up with anything to do the job. what was. in july 2020 the un h.c.l. published a report documenting cases of violence torture and abuse in the african part of the mediterranean migration route including in zawiya. as he sees us out the head of the camp confiscates the elastic rope this child was playing with. these videos procured from legal experts in europe were filmed in secret by the detainees the demo bille phones they might be used as proof to initiate legal proceedings in the future. here the detainees are beaten with clubs.

in this video shots can be heard from inside the center according to witnesses at least 4 detainees are said to have been injured on this night. was. to escape this how migrants must either bright the guards with almost $1000.00 euros worth of libyan dean hours to find another way to flee like emmanuelle. we're in barry italy 3 months after being rescued by the ocean viking crew emmanuelle has found refuge here we can sit down. we showed him on footage from the detention center in zawiya. where you there. even when i was there that was the somali side. oh that's

inside the large cell at the end we called it the kosovo. he's referring to the kosovo war in the balkans in the late 1990 s. . in winter it gets very cold there because it's such a big room that's where they beat you where they abuse you where they do everything they always took us and. sometimes when i was in that huge cell there was only one person in there and that person was the one being tortured so we called but the cause of all. the men who had also recognizes the head if the detention center. so that's the bearded man i know him with his hypocritical laugh when organizations n.g.o.s visit the center he pretends to be very nice blah blah blah blah but when they leave it's like hell again he didn't hit me but he slapped a woman in front of me he saw her and he hit her bam in winter he locked up

a woman and her baby she had just given birth of the. according to the beaded man is also the one misappropriating the humanitarian aid. on the victim there they came to distribute blankets and mattresses after that truck arrived. he made us go out and load all that stuff into the truck the truck left with everything what you bunch of it so he's diverting humanitarian aid and we yes he said i'm telling you what happened to me he gave us the order in person to load the truck we loaded it and it left. so much i should say bye to. everyone who went through that prison would love to one day find out that it's been destroyed that it no longer exists. that it no longer exists super. bowl or the european union supports libya since 2017 the e.u.

has spent more than 90000000 euros training and equipping the libyan coast gaunt the goal is to catch migrants trying to cross the mediterranean and bring them back to libya. humanitarian organizations working in this regularly prevented from carrying out their operations. we flew over the sea with who say ben event a friend tace on board his colleague at the age of 50 this professional pilot founded the ngo going on there or the intrigue behind it says he and a friend spent their life savings on this single engine aircraft. the truck you look at where about 100 kilometers from the libyan coast if an ngo boat had been in the zone it would have been able to rescue them but for months the authorities have been doing all they can to stop n.g.o.s from coming back out here whenever they arrive at the ports with rescue people on board they're accused of being people smugglers among other things and the return to sea is delayed for as

long as possible clearly it's to make sure there are no witnesses at the scene of a crime the clip. of her. after a year in the hall flying high the can leave breeze missions are also hold to it by an administrative procedure he needs today. this time we need to say enough produce his plane is now grounded. secure don't worry we're authorized to go on recreational flights with this aircraft or you could. target fights over italy and over your. and generally it's a long one but we're no longer allowed to fly over international waters over the

libyan coast want to continue. we're back aboard the ocean viking tong he and his crew from s.o.s. in the details on me and doctors without borders are once again plying the walsh is off the libyan coast. and the source for our mission is sacred. that's what they taught me in the army i'll continue to do this for as long as it's needed for as long as i'm able or until they stop me from doing it of course is good for us. today the 18th of october 29th marks the 3rd rescue operation of the month it's another overloaded inflatable boat full of men women and children. that are feeling the best you can do with just. a little. fun. as they climb aboard the ocean viking the 104 rescued people assure that they have

secured their freedom however since 2017 at the initiative of the european union a new rescue zone has been established when a boat is in this sector the libyan coast guards is supposed to intervene and take the migrants back to libya. and this is exactly where the ocean viking is currently on patrol the crew takes the lead by informing both the libyan and the european also routines of their intervention via email. the libyans are the 1st to respond. or does it given to dock at tripoli harbor for the captain and crew that's entirely out of the question. so it's an acceptable wear out on the open sea just stop the coast of italy and there ha. oddly responding to our messages. we sent an e-mail to the italian coast guard and they told us that it's not up to them to sort this out they're not responsible so where

should we go we've been told to go back to libya. so what do we do go back to libya where there's a war raging you know it's unacceptable that's not what maritime law states. according to maritime law the rescue people must be taken to a safe location unbeknown to everyone on board a power struggle has just broken out between the ocean viking and the e.u. . but days after the rescue the ocean viking gets caught in a storm. the freighter is being buffeted by meter high waves. was . we feel bad really bad. for the crew members the tension is also rising. since we send the

1st boss requests that we didn't receive any reply and just a few minutes ago i just brought an email asking if they have any feedback or any update for us. and we just wait and. the word wait means going around in circles the ocean viking has become a prisoner of the mediterranean the ship is shuttling back and forth between mull to and the italian island of lampedusa this puts pressure on the all star a tease from both countries but all of this back and forth worries the survivors. at the moment we're headed southeast so not get a chance to libya is in the south. the sun moon the sun it really scares us because we don't want to go south again. that we should be looking over. there

scared they'll have to return to their past hell it's more than a week after the rescue and the still no european pool. that is willing to accept the 104 pass and just 2 days later the ocean viking wins the palace struggle italy agrees to win its home but an agreement has been struck between italy france and germany to take in the 104 passengers the ocean viking heads for the port of put saddle in sicily visible on the floor i don't know how to define this feeling. of words it's it should be systematic and it's not. yes right now it's a relief. but it's not a total relief because next time it could be the same we might have to wait for days again even though it's against the law. so yes right now it's a relief but a huge relief no not yet. it may not be a big relief for the crew but it certainly is for the migrants who are

asking was. the next morning after injuring libya and all its horris of to risking their lives at sea the 104 rescued people will finally reach a rep for them this continent means freedom. a welcoming committee comprised of humanitarian aid workers and police officers awaits them one by one the 104 passengers are examined by health professionals. but this mandatory step doesn't prevent some final moments of celebration. 12 days after their rescue the passengers finally set foot on solid ground over the past few years s.l.'s meditate honey and doctors without borders have rescued more

than certain 1000 people at sea. but later in july 2020 the ocean viking would be detained in italy. how much longer will such vessels and that humanitarian rescue us be allowed to continue that lifesaving work on the mediterranean. to the point of strong opinions clear positions international perspective such. nobel peace prize laureate and some sushi is bad under house arrest in myanmar on trumped up charges with the elected government deposed and the military back in power is also part of democracy extinguished climbed out onto the floor of the 2

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