移民组织帮助在利比亚的难民回国

AS IT IS 2016-03-16 Migrants Being Helped to Leave Libya 移民组织帮助在利比亚的难民回国

More migrants are leaving Libya after being abused, mostly by police and militias¹.

The International Organization for Migration² reports it has helped thousands of people leave Libya to return to Burkina Faso, Gambia and Senegal, among other countries.

A few days ago, the group returned 117 migrants to Burkina Faso, including five women and two children.

Itayi Viriri is a spokesman for the group. He said the migrants told the IOM about poor treatment by militias and employers. He said many young men told the group they had worked for weeks without being paid.

He said the group has “examples of young men who were working in construction who, every time they got paid, they were raided.”

He said militias took the migrants’ money during the raids. He said the migrants had no place to report the crimes.

A recent United Nations report said government officials, armed groups and smugglers have violated the rights of migrants in Libya. Many migrants have been detained without charges for long periods and have been tortured, forced to work without pay, and have suffered other kinds of abuse, the report said.

Viriri told VOA that some African migrants reported being beaten and threatened with other forms of poor treatment.

He says there have been “a few cases where people were abducted⁵ with the expectation that ransom⁶ would be paid. So, here we have one young man who said if they are arrested in Libya or taken in by these militias, they are expected to pay” about $700.

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smuggler³ – n. a criminal who moves (someone or something) from one country into another illegally and secretly

abduct⁴ – v. to take (someone) away from a place by force

ransom – n. money that is paid in order to free someone who has been captured or kidnapped

1 militias   

n.民兵组织，民兵( militia的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
• The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网

2 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。

3 smuggler   

n.走私者

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight, awaiting extradition to Britain. 这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• The smuggler was finally obliged to inform against his boss. 那个走私犯最后不得不告发他的首领。

4 abduct   

vt.诱拐，拐带，绑架

参考例句：

• The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.警察抓住了那个企图拐走这男孩以便勒索赎金的家伙。
• The news that we see those use network abduct children sometimes filled with apprehension.我们有时看到那些利用网络诱拐儿童的新闻都心惊肉跳。

5 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

6 ransom   

n.赎金，赎身；v.赎回，解救

参考例句：

• We'd better arrange the ransom right away.我们最好马上把索取赎金的事安排好。
• The kidnappers exacted a ransom of 10000 from the family.绑架者向这家人家勒索10000英镑的赎金。