00:00People around the world are in disbelief after CNN released video of migrants being sold at open public slave auctions in Libya. Yes, folks, slaves. Watch.
00:15On my way coming, I was sold. Messless beating. If you look at most of people here, if you check their body, you'll see the mark. They're beating. With electric, even your butcher, they took something like a sharper jet.
00:30You know what I'm saying? Most of them lost their life there.
00:33Officials have denounced the practice, but say part of the problem is that the country has been simply overwhelmed by having to provide for the hundreds of thousands of people who come to the country in hopes of eventually getting to Europe.
00:45An official from the International Organization for Migration explains what happens this way.
00:50Migrants get off the bus and they're quickly put into a murder machine, an extortion machine, and they're robbed of their possessions.
00:56Their families are called, and they're forced. They're tortured, and they give these smugglers money, and then they're sold.
01:03$400 for a laboring man and maybe a little bit more for a woman who can be put into the sex trade.
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