Faced with the recurrence of these incidents between militias, two Libyan writers, commenting on “Sky News Arabia”, rule out an imminent cessation of the armed conflict, as long as the state of national institutions is absent.
What’s going on around here?
At least two people have been killed in the clashes that have been going on since Thursday evening, according to the Ambulance and Emergency Service, which declared a “state of mobilization” in all its branches stretching from Zawiya to Al-Ajailat, i.e. about forty kilometers. far. Civilian sources put the toll at 3 people, in addition to 8 injured, including a woman and a child, as the fire broke out following clashes inside the walls of the Day Al- Hilal in the area of ​​the of the same name, witness to the clashes. The ambulance service called on all parts of the city to cease fire; In order to be able to evacuate the families stranded in the areas of clashes, he also assigned contact numbers to receive their distress. While the Libyan Red Crescent has managed to get some of these families out, the inability to reach a ceasefire is hampering these efforts, and the Red Crescent has urged the warring parties to reach a truce in order to be able to bring besieged families out of conflict zones. The Red Crescent has also warned that volunteers, medical and paramedic agencies and ambulances are not being targeted, calling on warring parties to facilitate the task of the emergency team to evacuate stranded families.
Who started the fight?
There were conflicting reports about the parties involved in the clashes, although they all agreed that one of its parties was a force affiliated with the Mukhtar al-Jahawi militia, as eyewitnesses spoke of the death of a member of the force, while the other parties involved in the confrontation have not yet been determined.
The city of Al-Zawiya experiences frequent unrest and fighting, in a state of total security chaos, where clashes have taken place between armed groups in more than 3 incidents over the past 6 months.
The difference in events in recent times has been the circulation of videos of the torture of young men by mercenaries affiliated with armed militias in the city, which has led to the outbreak of widespread protests since late April, calling for the expulsion from headquarters. armed groups, clearing the city of drug dealers’ hideouts and looting fuel and human smuggling sites. .
mired in crime
Due to the ongoing chaos, the city has become “overwhelmed with crime”, and it needs a major security effort to “liberate” it from all the manifestations of absurdity it is currently witnessing, in the words Libyan political scientist Muhammad Qachout.
Clashes are taking place in the city between militias from the Al-Shurafa region, and the city itself is only 40 km from the capital, Tripoli, where the outgoing government headed by Abdul Hamid al -Dabaiba.
In a tone tinged with astonishment and bitterness, Qashout affirms that this government presented an initiative to stop the fighting and the ongoing conflict in Sudan, but that it did not consider the question of Zawiya, which does not is not far from it.
Whatever the direct cause of the recent incident, Libyan writer Mohamed Baayou bears primary responsibility for the multiplicity of political allegiances and tribal divisions that have allowed the presence of militias that terrorize the people.
Baayou does not expect calm and stability in the city, or in western Libya in general, anytime soon, as long as the national state which monopolizes the arms remains absent, and the solution remains in the uprising of the inhabitants of the city ​​to repel these militias.
The militia chaos has spread since the dissolution of official institutions and the spread of chaos in the country in 2011, and its fall at the hands of militias who divided the cities of western Libya into zones of influence, then fought for them.
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