The Libyan authorities accused relief groups of planning to change the ethnic makeup in the country by encouraging African immigrants to stay there, and ordered them to close their offices.
Ten groups – including doctors without borders, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the Norwegian Refugee Council have been distinguished.
“This plan to settle African migrants in our country is a hostile act. It aims to change the country’s demographic formation and threaten the balance of Libyan society,” said Salem Jet, a spokesman for the Internal Security Authority on Thursday.
Repeat A similar announcement issued by Tunisia two years agoAnd that was quickly convicted as a racist anti -black.
Both countries sit on the Mediterranean coast, which are major transit points for African migrants crossing the sea to Europe.
Since the overthrow of the overthrow of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011, there has been a collapse in the government, which allowed the armed militias and the human cavity to reproduce.
The country was divided into two parts, each of which is managed by competing management.
Mishtamin was accused of managing detention centers where migrants are beaten to death or hunger, and The Libyan Coast Guard is accused of photographing people at sea sometimes instead of saving them. The Libyan authorities did not comment on these accusations.
On Thursday, an order was submitted to expel relief groups by the internationally recognized government in the capital, Tripoli.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) suspended its work in Libya a week ago, describing a campaign of harassment by the Libyan authorities “calling and interrogating international NGO employees” since mid -March.
“Our organization is very concerned about the consequences that these orders will obtain on patient health and the safety of human workers,” Malikio’s goals said in a statement sent to the BBC.
In response to a announcement on Thursday, the United Nations Refugee Agency (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) defended its work, and informed the BBC that the people who help them are not “migrants” but rather refugees in urgent need.
It also says that it works with the approval of the Tripoli government.
“We are in contact with the authorities in Libya and follow them to search for clarity. The Commission in Libya is working for more than 30 years, as it has provided humanitarian assistance to refugees, asylum researchers and weak Libyan societies,” spokesman William Spindler told the BBC.
One of the accusations made by the International Security Authority in Libya against the ten relief groups was that it supports “illegal immigrants by providing them with food, clothes and medicine, which encouraged these immigrants to consider Libya as a final destination and not a transit country.” But many say they do not want to stay in the country.
For years, sub -Saharan African immigrants have been violated with serious rights and ignored the transaction in Libya – including existence killingand enslaveOr rape again and again.
“She used to call me” disgusting black. “He raped me and said:” This is what women made for him. ” A Sudanese refugee was smuggled in Libya. He told BBC This year, a man was offered to have a job to clean his home.
“Even the children here mean to us, they treat us as monsters and magicians, and they insult us because we are black and African, are they not the Africans themselves?”