IS 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tajura, People Smuggling, Financialization
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Vice news video libya b/w 700-900 migrants that are sitting on the ground. Want italy and eu to help out with migrants. Girl was seized when she went outside and was transported to where she is now. Militias getting involved in humanitarian crises unknown reasons. Eu threatens to target libyan smuggling networks and bomb them. Libya hard to enforce due to lack of support and threats of violence. Libya has to protect itself and contracted rebel regiments as a result to secure shores and stop illegal crossing into europe. To solve refugee crisis, militia had to be hired to guard borders. Can"t say anything more due to fears of being beaten. Guards led reporter to enclosure filled with women afterwards. Had no idea what was going on when they were taken. Some killed, some beheaded, some thrown into the sea on the way to where they are now.