Libyan Authorities Discover 'Secret Prison' Funded by... Wait, Who?
When Libyan authorities 'discover' secret migrant prisons, one might applaud their diligence. One might also wonder why these 'authorities' — fragmented, often brutal factions themselves — are just now finding facilities that have been common knowledge to human rights groups for years. This isn't a 'secret prison' to the migrants trafficked through it, nor to the various militias and 'coast
guards' (some EU-funded) that profit from the misery, effectively turning Libya into Europe's offshore detention center. The International Organization for Migration and countless NGOs have documented these abuses for years, even pinpointing locations. Instead of exposing the cynical EU policies that funnel billions into 'border control' — read: outsourcing inhumanity to Libya, a nation still
reeling from a NATO intervention that destabilized it in the first place — the narrative pivots to celebrating local 'rescues.' It’s a convenient amnesia, obscuring the fact that these very 'authorities' are often enmeshed in the same trafficking networks, their operations frequently bolstered by European cash meant to 'stop illegal migration.' How many times have we seen the West destabilize a
region, then fund the 'solutions' to the very crises they created?