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Migrants from Morocco and Bangladesh wait on an overcrowded wooden boat off the coast of Libya for aid workers from the Spanish search-and-rescue group Open Arms on Jan. 10, 2020.Photo: Santi Palacios/APMigrants from Morocco and Bangladesh wait on an overcrowded wooden boat off the coast of Libya for aid workers from the Spanish search-and-rescue group Open Arms on Jan. 10, 2020.Photo: Santi Palacios/AP
April 30 2021, 8:00Â a.m.
Afana Dieudonne often says that he is not a superhero. Thatâs Dieudonneâs way of saying heâs done things heâs not proud of â just like anyone in his situation would, he says, in order to survive. From his home in Cameroon to Tunisia by air, then by car and foot into the desert, across the border into Libya, and onto a rubber boat in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Dieudonne has done a lot of surviving.
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Following the April 11 release of Bija, an alleged Libyan trafficker who has been accused of crimes against humanity by the UN, several migrants told InfoMigrants about their experiences at the hands of this feared boss of the Libyan coast guard in Zaouia. A monster. (C)apable of shooting a human being as he would shoot an animal.
Three days after the release of alleged migrant trafficker Abd al-Rahman Milad, better known by his alias Bija, for lack of evidence , those who had dealings with him draw a chilling picture. In Libya, there is not one migrant who does not know Bija, says Mamadou, who fled Libya to return to his home country, Guinea. He is worse than the devil, he says.
Libya has freed a man under UN sanctions for trafficking and drowning migrants, Abd al-Rahman Milad, due to "lack of evidence" in his trial, The Guardian reports. "It's absurd Italy gives money to Libya's coastguard - [a] country that released a trafficke.
Libyan authorities have reportedly released a man who has been commonly described as one of the world’s most wanted human traffickers. The man in question, Abd al-Rahman Milad is a coastguard commander who goes by the alias Bija. He was earlier sanctioned by the United Nations for sinking migrant boats.