Reports from the southern Libyan city of Kufra suggest that ethnic tensions in the oasis town are again boiling over, with at least 35 people killed this weekend in fighting between members of the Tabu tribes and the local government forces.
Fighting reportedly broke out Saturday, when Tabu militias attacked a government office, an attack that killed 15 pro-regime fighters. Retaliatory fighting hit the Tabu community today, with a doctor saying at least 20 Tabu, including women and children, were slain.
The Tabu have been clashing with Zwia tribesmen in the south of and on since the fall of the Gadhafi regime, with both sides claiming the other were “Gadhafi loyalists” and launching tit-for-tat attacks that escalate.
Earlier this year, the Tabu leader Chief Mansour claimed that the government was conducting a policy of ethnic cleansing, and urged the international community to help them in a war of secession.
No wonder the Russians have the sense to see what will happen in Syria if there is a so-called "humanitarian intervention".
Humanitarian intervention resulted in Bosnia being still a basketcase and Kosovo, a crime-ridden empirial outpost. Libya will of course be by far worse off, as there was no peace deal to end the hostiltities. At least there was Dayton Peace Plan in Bosnia, and Kumanovo Agreement at the end of Kosovo war, followed up by UN SC Resolution 1244. Those documents are still better then nothing, even though there is a consistent pressure to invalidate them through "crative" breaking of the spirit of agreements. But at least there is a tentative peace. In Libya, there is no way of telling how or when will it end. It is amazing that anything functions, as not even international airport can function. How are then oil fields being protected, the pipelines, refineries, shipping faciltiies? It is all somewhat strange. If oil and gas are still coming out, who is providing the security?
There is no such thing as “humanitarian intervension” in any of the US or EU-England and Germany Markel political party the Christian Democrats or the neo rightwing fascism in Sweden when these governments started bombing Libya, the meaning was regime change for having a military base in Libya for NATO. Dividing the people on the line of religious and tribal was the second to be implemented making sure while people are fighting they have the chance to steal the Libyans people wealth, such as the 57billon dollars that no one is talking about any longer, that is the same idea orchestrated by US and EU in Syria. Where is the Libyan peoples money while in hands of the English and US bankers…..?