derStandard.at: Can you confirm reports that Gaddafi uses African mercenaries?
Rovera: Yes. We have carefully examined and found no evidence. The opposition has spread everywhere these rumors, which had dire consequences for African migrant workers: it was held a regular hunt on immigrants, some were even lynched, arrested many. Meanwhile, there is even the opposition, that the mercenaries were not, almost all were released and have returned to their home countries because the investigations have revealed nothing against them.
Eight or nine suspected mercenaries are still incarcerated, I'm assuming that they are migrant workers. The Africans who work on construction sites in Libya, agriculture or factories were exposed before the start of the conflict, racism and xenophobia, but these rumors have worsened their situation even further.
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