The Libya blitzkrieg breaks down: Negotiations needed
Rene Wadlow <https://foreignpolicynews.org/author/renewadlow/>
<rene.wadlow@xxxxxxxxx>August 20, 2019
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Tripoli (Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
*By Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens*
After a two-day truce to observe the Eid al-Adha ceremonies, fighting was
resumed in and around tripoli, Libya continuing to take its deadly toll of
civilian lives. The U.N. envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salame, has recently
warned that the influx of weapons from foreign supporters in violation of
the arms embargo was fueling the conflict – arms from Egypt and the United
Arab Emirats to General Khalifa Haftar, Turkey to the government opposing
him.
Dozens of people were killed in an air raid on 3 July 2019 on a detention
center holding migrants in a camp at Tajoura, a suburb of Tripoli according
to the U.N. Support Mission in Libya. Most of those killed and wounded
were Africans from Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia who had hoped to reach Europe
but were blocked in Libya. Others held in the detention center had been
returned to Libya, arrested trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
In 2018, some 15,000 persons were intercepted on boats at sea and returned
to Libya, placed in detention centers without charge and with no date set
for release. The detention centers are officially under the control of the
Government of National Accord’s Department for Combating Illegal
Migration. In practice, most of the detention centers are controlled by
militias. The former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has described
the conditions in these detention centers as “an outrage to the conscience
of humanity.”
Since the outbreak of armed conflict on the outskirts of Tripoli on 3 April
2019, many persons have been killed or wounded in what General Khalifa
Hifter hoped would be a blitzkreig advance. He badly underestimated the
degree of military response that he would meet from the militias loyal to
the Government of National Accord led by Prime Minister Fayez
al-Sarraj. Since the blitzkreig bogged down, in the absence of a
ceasefire, the humanitarian situation is dramatically degenerating.The
dramatic conditions in Libya have a double aspect. One is the need to
create a stable administrative structure of government taking into
consideration the geographic and ethnic diversity of the country. The
second aspect is the humane treatment of refugees and migrants from other
countries who have tried to cross Libya or have been returned from failed
crossings of the Mediterranean.
Therefore, the Association of World Citizens, as an immediate step, calls
for a humanitarian ceasefire and the resumption of U.N.-led negotiations in
good faith among a broad spectrum of Libyan political parties and tribal
representatives.
Secondly, the Association of World Citizens calls for an end of returning
refugees and migrants to Libya. Other countries must welcome migrants
while longer-range cooperative structures are put into place. Migration
issues will continue to challenge the world society.
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