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Refugees being 'starved out' of UN facility in Tripoli

"Aid worker claims refugees are being denied food to motivate them to leave."
"Aid worker claims refugees are being denied food to motivate them to leave."

Refugees being ‘starved out’ of UN facility in Tripoli (Guardian, link)

“The UN has been accused of trying to starve out refugees and asylum seekers who are sheltering for safety inside a centre run by the UN refugee agency in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.(…)

Internal documents seen by the Guardian show that the UNHCR is also planning to withdraw food from 600 other refugees and migrants in the centre – who include survivors of bombings, torture, forced labour and other human rights abuses. The majority have already tried to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean, but were returned to Libya by the EU-backed Libyan coastguard.”