Among the tragedies befalling the people of Libya, is the tragedy befalling its migrant workers.   On 9 March the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported that 30,000 migrant workers were forced back into Libya by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi to ‘return to work’ in Tripoli.   This forced return amounts to slavery.  It also violates international human rights in another way:  Everyone has the right to leave any country … (article 14(2) Universal Declaration of Human Rights).  Almost as soon as the uprising began in Libya the bonds that had held a multi-national community together fell apart.  Although nationals and foreigners had lived together and shared their future before the uprising – after the uprising a person’s…