Libyan rebels round up black Africans

Thousand have already been slaughtered…

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift jails across the capital.
Virtually all of the detainees say they are innocent migrant workers, and in most cases there is no evidence that they are lying. But that is not stopping the rebels from placing the men in facilities like the Gate of the Sea sports club, where about 200 detainees — all black — clustered on a soccer field this week, bunching against a high wall to avoid the scorching sun.

The burned man, Ahmed Ali, said he’d come to Libya from his native Chad two years ago and worked as a house painter before the uprising.
“When the rebels entered Tripoli, some guys came and burned down my house,” he said. He escaped and ran to some rebel fighters, hoping they’d protect him.
“They brought me here,” he said, adding that he’d received no medical care in the six days since his arrest.
“They believe that most of the black in Libya are mercenaries, so now all the blacks on the street, they pick them up,” he said.

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