The U.N. Is Playing Hunger Games With Desperate Migrants

GRIM CHOICES

For some in Libya, the choice is between starvation or death at the hands of murderous militias. That’s not the U.N.’s intent—sometimes that’s the way things work in war zones.

Published Feb. 13 2020 4:56AM EST

200213-Lynch-UN-migrants-Libya-tease_q5yjzn — Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

For more than a month, Sened contemplated whether it was better to risk getting murdered or risk starving to death.

Sened is the nickname of a 36-year-old Eritrean man trapped in Libya’s civil war—one of 43,000 refugees in a country that sometimes serves as an escape valve from Africa to Europe.

Justin Lynch

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The U.N. Is Playing Hunger Games With Desperate Migrants

For some in Libya, the choice is between starvation or death at the hands of murderous militias. That’s not the U.N.’s intent—sometimes that’s the way things work in war zones.

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Justin Lynch