"This time there is video and photographic evidence that cannot be covered up: the Libyan traffickers who violently threw ten young refugees into the open sea, right in front of our rescue vessel, after keeping them in detention camps, are part of Tripoli's official military apparatus, Mediterranea said in a statement, using a definition of trafficking that extends to any exploitation or coercion along a people-smuggling route."
"The first set of clips and photographs, from 18 August, shows men on Libyan patrol boats in balaclavas and uniforms bearing the insignia of the 80th Special Operations Battalion of the 111th Brigade a militia led by the Libyan deputy defence minister, Abdul Salam Al-Zoubi."
Video footage and photographs show a militia allied with the Libyan government participating in people smuggling in the Mediterranean Sea. A journalist accompanying volunteers on a rescue boat operated by the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans took the clips and images. Kurdish refugees who said they had been taken from a detention centre are seen in the water near the rescue boat after witnesses said they had been kicked into the sea. The NGO sent the images, photographs and a detailed account to prosecutors in Trapani, Sicily, and to the International Criminal Court. The NGO identified the men as members of the 80th Special Operations Battalion of the 111th Brigade, led by deputy defence minister Abdul Salam Al-Zoubi, and documented them wearing balaclavas and uniforms bearing that insignia on Libyan patrol boats.
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