ADEN, Yemen (AP) — After reaching Yemen's shores in a packed
migrant boat, the young Ethiopian coffee farmer was plunged into a
living hell. The smugglers wanted thousands of US dollars in ransom
from the illegal migrants, and they used him as an example of what
would happen if they didn't pay.
Each day for a month, they inflicted new tortures on him, Omar
Farrag told The Associated Press. They put him in a tank of water
and lit a fire underneath it. They wrapped his limbs with tight
barbed wire. At times, they heated the barbed wire.
Finally, his younger brother came all the way from Ethiopia with
US$2,000 in ransom money. The smugglers decided they could squeeze
more money out of him too, so they tortured his brother so badly it
ended up killing him, Farrag said.
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