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Raghavan, an editor for the Washington Post presents the thriving business of immigrant smuggling in the heart of Libya`s cities. The author uses images to portray the true picture of the dentations camps. He employs ethos and Paros to illustrate the emotional and ethical issues not accounted for. While he notes the efforts made by the E.U in eradicate the situation, the author clearly states his stand .He states that, much should be done .He also reflects on how hard and dangerous the journey through the desert is. This shades light on a journey that few are aware of thus showing how much damage the business is causing to the immigrants. Note on the Post The post by Raghavan in conjunction with Tugnoli as a photographer presents the true picture of how immigrants’ treatment occurs in Libya. The human beings treatment in Libya is not humane rather taken as commodities .The article provides vision aids that show images of groups of migrants in front of the embassy at the Taora detention camp seeking help in order to ease their grievances and find help to go back to their country. The sizes of the …show more content…

According to Raghavan (July 2017), due to the political instability in many of the countries, it caused many to be sold by the smugglers and now locked in crowded facilities. For instance, the author notes a testimony of a 25 year-old man from Sierra Leone who states how he was beaten while on the phone so that his parents could hear him cry. The kind of pain experienced by the immigrants in the country presents a group of people who are desperate with nothing left but pain. Libya is the best and quickest way of finding one`s way into Europe. For many, this is an opportunity of finding a way out of their poverty by going to Europe. The smugglers take this advantage and in turn sell many of them as goods rather than treating them as human

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