“The minute I was alone, they would have raped me” – Adanya, 34, of Cameroon says.
“In Libya, I was sleeping under trucks and buses as I did not have any money” – Afia, 24, of Ghana.
“I know if I tell my mother I am in Libya, she will be crying every day” Ibrahim, 28, of Nigeria.
“They said that if I had sex with them, they could take me (across the sea) without payment,” Linda, 19, of Guinea Conakry.
The experiences recounted by these four survivors are common among the women and men rescued by the Geo Barents, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) rescue ship in the central Mediterranean.
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