The U.S. Supported Anti-Black Forces in Libya

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

12 Dec 2017

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It should have come as no surprise that the same “rebels” the US supported in its 2011 war against Libya are now selling Blacks into slavery at auction, said Robin Philpot, who published Maximillion Forte’s influential book Slouching Toward Sirte. Assassinated Libyan leader “Muammar Gaddafi made it very clear that Libya was committed to African unity” under his government. U.S.-backed “rebels” targeted Black Libyans for death and detention – and now, enslavement.

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