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Migrants, Stuck in Libya, Demand Evacuation as Conflict Escalates

Heather Murdock

   TRIPOLI - "We don't need to eat," said a young man held in a Libyan
   detention center five days after the compound was bombed killing more
   than 50 people and injuring at least 130. "We didn't touch the food. We
   need to be out of Libya."
   The hunger strike in the detention center was on its third day Sunday,
   according to the protester communicating with VOA via phone and social
   media. He sent pictures of detainees holding signs like "We are in the
   grave" and "Save us from the next bomb. We are survivors, but still we
   are targeted."

   News and additional photographs of the protest came from other
   detainees communicating with hidden mobile phones.
   The airstrikes hit the detention center late Tuesday, after
   international organizations warned both sides of Libya's ongoing war
   that civilians were held at that location, which has been targeted
   before. Amnesty International says there is evidence the detention
   center is located near weapons' storage, but Tripoli authorities say
   there is no legitimate military target in the area.

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