Since alarming reports [9] broke that Trump is preparing deportation flights to Libya [10], the plan has happily been put on hold [11] by the courts [12]—as well as denied by both [13] of Libya's two rival governments [14]. But Libya, like El Salvador [15], was clearly chosen because of its horrific human rights record [16], with a UN investigation characterizing its treatment of detained migrants as crimes against humanity [17]. A migrant detention center was even bombed [18] in the inter-factional fighting in Libya six years ago, killing scores of inmates. And news of US plans to send detainees there comes just as a new round of fighting [19] has broken out in Tripoli—involving a militia headed by the warlord "Gheniwa [20]," who has himself been implicated in atrocities [21] against migrants. Bill Weinberg raises the alarm in Episode 278 of the CounterVortex podcast [22].
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