Published by Refugees in Libya | 02 / Apr / 2025

A child in the desert and a crime in plain sight

We share here the video released by Refugees in Libya a child was found, alone, walking barefoot in the Sahara desert somewhere between Libya and Chad.

Not in a home. Not in a mother’s arms. But in the open desert alone. A traveler found him alone, barefoot, walking in the vast cruel Sahara. Somewhere between Libya and Chad. The child in this video did not commit a crime. His only sin is being born with black skin in the wrong place, at the wrong time—into a world that still calculates humanity based on passports, pigment, and profit. His only crime is being poor in a system designed to erase the poor.

We do not know his name. But we know what put him there. His parents may have collapsed behind him—dehydrated, hunted, or disappeared during Libya’s latest mass expulsions of Black Africans. Perhaps they were arrested and thrown into the dark holes of Gharyan or Sikka. Or perhaps they were left to die, like so many others, in the no-man’s-land Europe pays to keep invisible.

This child, perhaps no older than five, now represents the utter breakdown of every supposed moral pillar Libya and Europe claim to uphold. This is not an accident. It is a racial purge, institutionalized and funded by the same Europe that lectures the world on human rights.

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