Bangladesh, Jan. 11 -- Libya has ceased to function as a mere corridor between Africa and Europe. It is no longer simply a place migrants pass through on their way north. Instead, it has become a terminal zone – an endpoint where journeys collapse, people disappear, and survival is reduced to calculations of ransom, endurance, or chance. What has emerged over the past decade is not accidental cruelty or sporadic abuse, but a structured system that profits from captivity and, increasingly, from death itself.

The discovery in early 2025 of mass graves near Jikharra and Kufra, containing at least 93 migrant bodies, did not expose a hidden atrocity. It confirmed what survivors, humanitarian workers, journalists, and even some Libyan re...