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Hundreds of Released Migrants in Libya Call for Resettlement

Heather Murdock

   TRIPOLI, LIBYA - "Aid organizations don't protect us from bombs and
   fear," said one teenager as he walked away from the detention center
   where he had been held for two years after trying to take a smuggler's
   boat from Libya to Europe.
   He trudged along dusty streets under the hot sun with more than 200
   other migrants after they demanded release from the center. Police met
   their demands, the young man said, by replying, "We won't stop you."
   They embarked on a six-hour march that ended at another facility, where
   exhausted migrants rested after receiving pledges from aid
   organizations that they would receive help resettling in countries
   outside their countries of origin and Libya.

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