South Libya Tribal Clashes Kill 19
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Fighting between rival tribes in southern Libya killed 19 people Saturday and wounded another 20, a local official said.
"Violent confrontations broke out between Toubous and Awled Sleiman early this morning," Ayoub al-Zarrouk, chief of the local council in Sebha told Agence France Presse. "So far there are 19 dead and 20 wounded."
Local sources said the clashes were sparked by the death on Thursday of a militia chief linked to Awled Sleiman, adding that the tribe accused the Toubous of murdering him.
Saturday's fighting is the worst between the tribes since they struck a cease-fire agreement in March 2012 following deadly battles that killed at least 150 people and wounded 400 others.
The Toubous are black oasis farmers by tradition who also live in southern Libya, northern Chad and Niger.
They have complained in the past of attempted ethnic cleansing against their community by Arab tribesmen.
11 January 2014, 19:27
02
Maybe killing Qaddafi was a bad idea after all. Maybe all of us (me included) who wished for his downfall were wrong after all. maybe it would have been a lot better, well for the people of Libya after all that Qaddafi stayed in power. Qaddafi was no friend of mine, far from that, but in light of what is now been happening in Libya, what was believed to be the Arab Spring has proven that it worked against the interests of the people. Maybe for Arabs, it is still better to be ruled by monarchs and dictators, well so far that is.
11 January 2014, 20:08
02
2) Personally, I believe that the Arab Spring should embrace the entirety of MENA, but in light of its failure and manipulation by the power-that-be both for their and their covert counter-revolutionary ME clients' interests, I tend to avoid speaking it. In effect, we won't see any blossoming where it is most urgently needed, and this thought is reinforced by the MSM failing to cover the uprising in Bahrain or the one in the KSA, the latter of which has about 30,000 political prisoners and has also sent about a thousand reinforced army personnel to try and quell the rebellion in the former. However, I do remain optimistic that the US policy of opting for stability rather than democracy is changing for the greater good in the long run.
12 January 2014, 06:33
00
-phoenix1 ... If Qaddafi hangued on to power, you would have situation that is similar to that of Syria - which I trust you agree would be much worse. Currently, Libya has much better prospects than Syria.
11 January 2014, 20:08
02
1) -phoenix1, many are quite loquacious regarding the so-called Arab Spring, where about half of those I've had the opportunity of participating in pertinent discussions with defend its roots and goals as vociferously as they can, while the other half disagrees quite strongly, naturally.
What's interesting of their opinions is that some of those who hold the Arab Spring in a negative light say it has been heavily influenced by key Monarchs across from Northern Africa in order to subjugate their peoples to fear of what society would become if they ever revolted, namely, the spread of chaos, death, lack of freedoms, and even more brutal oppression. However, and do I tend to agree, others say that this negative perception of the Arab Spring is due to an unbalanced focus of the media on violence rather than the good developments that have been achieved, because,as it is said,media thrives on negative sensationalism and is at the core of the perpetual influence of the mainstream media.
11 January 2014, 22:28
01
Hi Endless, great posts, and I definitely can't add much atop what I see as excellent writing. Take care and have a great weekend.
