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A CNN report depicting what the channel said was a slave auction of black African migrants in Libya continues to reverberate around the world, with Burkina Faso recalling its ambassador and the head of the United Nations saying he was “horrified” by the footage.
Burkina Faso “summoned the Libyan charge d‘affairs in (Burkina Faso’s capital) Ouagadougou to express our indignation at these images that belong to other centuries, images of the slave trade,” Reuters cited the country’s Foreign Minister Alpha Barry as saying.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Libyan Embassy in central Paris on Saturday, the New York Times noted. And UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called on the authorities to investigate, saying the alleged sales “may amount to crimes against humanity.”
Following up on a grainy cell phone video, CNN carried out a hidden-camera investigation to document alleged slave auctions in Tripoli in which reporters witnessed a dozen people sold as laborers over a few short minutes.
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