Desperate migrants in Libya detention centres forced to fight on front lines of new civil war

It was morning when fighters entered the halls of Tajoura detention centre, where Alec had been living more than five months, and ordered him to come with them. 

Crammed in and locked up with hundreds of others, and only one meal a day, many of the other migrants and refugees lay listless and weak. He looked stronger.

“They took us from jail, then they ordered us (to wear) uniforms,” he said in a phone interview.

Alec is just one of scores of refugees and migrants taken from Libya’s detention centres, and forced to assist militants aligned with the UN-backed Tripoli government.

Speaking to more than a dozen sources in five Tripoli detention centres, The Sunday Telegraph is able to reveal that…

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