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Doro { 14 images } Created 21 Jan 2019

My name is Doro, I’m from Gambia (26 year old) I live in Seracunda, so I decided to take this journey.
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  • They poach us, from my boss poachers and they catch me and sell me (…) in Libya Periuali(?), Then I’ve started to suffer, they asked me  1000 dollars, I can not pay (….) I don’t get money. So from there they sell us to Saba, from Saba we are they sell us and they ask 1500 dollars,
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  • I’ve reached.. you know, in  (…) 1500 dollars they must kill you, some the shoot you, some they take knifes the cut you, to make camera for parents to see, they call your parent to give money, they will kill you, I got lock, from there I escaped, nobody payed my for money, I just escaped. g
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  • ……. that was my journey but it was very hard I wish i can go to my facebook I’ll show the people who beat us, you understand, because Libya is not easy, in front of my they kill people, they throw them, in front of me. I sleep with people they died because of hungry, the slave people they die because the can’t have water to drink in the prison.
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  • This one it’s not the prison. This was when they push people in Europe, i was standing in camp so one Arab man just made me gone (…)
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  • I was my second time to go in sea, it was 2016, (….) it was built a boat for ten people to go so I missed the line, so the man calls me and said ‘which line you are?’ I say ‘I missed the line’ just told me I was cheating, so he just knocked me with the gun, I fall down, they  just leaved me, they push people. After I’ve felt down I come back house, In Libya you can not go hospital, I see no again Arab woman carry me, who carried my to the hospital. that’s why they made me like this, my eye don’t see. That was pushing that was not problem.
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  • But Just God help me. I’ve crossed one old Arab woman, in car, who carried me to the hospital, in Zuara, I spent one month to the hospital. so after I come to the Arab man house, I was working as, like a  maçon, construction for the Arab man house, and he made me richer, this is my story in Libya all of this is Libya. I still see people die in front of me, I see them shoot people, In Libya in that prison they call Beni Walid.<br />
Is the bad prison in Libya, Beni Walid. Thats 1500 dollars in Beni Walid, if you not pay you get problem.
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  • I come back to Libya, I worked in Mali for one year, I spend in Libya one year, like contractor, building contractor, i work I pay again 2000 Libyan dinar. The poachers they catch us, (…) they sell me again, from this place…. Zauia (…) so do you want to escape they catch you, (…) 2000 dinars. And those police officers they say they are police, but they are criminals because they don’t consider black, men.
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  • From this one, from this one, from this one all there was camera to show my parents, this the last one. This one also was Beni Walid, the same prison from this one, this one, this one, this one, for my parent to bring money, and this one, and this one, you know i was a tough man (…) they don’t get weak on me, they was treating me like a I was the most…. I can not say, is fuck up, Libya is fuck up. Just pray to God, because of 1500 dollars… <br />
All this thing is the beating
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  • My stomach hurt me in the night all the time, sometime I think because of hungry but no it’s because of the operation, and my eye also sometime (…) that’s why at midnight I stand up, I don’t sleep. I use to cry at night all the time. I dream lot of thing, some times I dream good things, sometime I dream bad things. Like yesterday on the boat I was dreaming a good dream I was dreaming I was reaching Europe, after I get up in the night and I see myself in the boat…
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  • In good three years, I never talked to my parents since I’m in Libya and I want to talk to them. they thinks I’m not alive since my accident, they thinks I’m not alive, because they saw all the pictures from the prison, the time I was beaten, the time they took my knife, they showed everything, because me they took me knife and they throw me, not just they took me knife, they carry at the hospital, they throw me from the prison.
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  • So God make me to road, I see a Arab woman, husband, see blood, carry me at the hospital, that was this one, so this one from operation, for one months I’ve sitting in the hospital, no (…) just God helped me.
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  • My stomach hurt me in the night all the time, sometime I think because of hungry but no it’s because of the operation, and my eye also sometime (…) that’s why at midnight I stand up, I don’t sleep. I use to cry at night all the time. I dream lot of thing, some times I dream good things, sometime I dream bad things. Like yesterday on the boat I was dreaming a good dream I was dreaming I was reaching Europe, after I get up in the night and I see myself in the boat…
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  • The second wound was this one, this one, the third one was this one.
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  • I spend in that prison one year, after they released me, They not released me because I pay them money, they released me because I escaped from the prison, understand, Libya is so hard. If you don’t know Libya you can not… everybody is there, (…). Three years I never feel myself as a human been, until you have rescued me, today i’ve feel first time to be somebody in life
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