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Khalifa Haftar threatens war during the celebrations of the 84th anniversary of the Libyan National Army

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Mark Camilleri
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Khalifa Haftar threatened to resolve the political crisis with arms if it is not resolved soon during yesterday’s celebrations of the 84th anniversary of the Libyan National Army, held in Benghazi.

Yesterday, at least nine people killed in clashes in Tajoura, but the road to the city has been re-opened since then. The University of Tripli has closed down and suspended classes and exams as the city is filled with new military check-points.

Last week, Haftar’s forces attacked an oil field in Gahdames in the South-West of Libya near the Algeria border. Libya’s current political deadlock is mostly attributed to Khalifa Haftar refusing to hand over power of his forces to the democratically elected government based in Tripli (Government of National Unity). An EU delegation has also arrived in the country to mediate between the parties.

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3 responses to “Khalifa Haftar threatens war during the celebrations of the 84th anniversary of the Libyan National Army”

  1. Khalifa Haftar sends his troops to the Southern borders, while Tripli remains calm – Mark Camilleri avatar
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  2. Banquo avatar
    Banquo

    The Government of National Accord (GNA) is not a democratically elected government. No Libyan citizen has ever stepped into a polling booth and cast a vote for it. The GNA is the result of horse-trading between politicians trying to bring the Interim Government of National Accord and the second Abdullah al-Thani government together.

    The best that can be said for the GNA is that it is recognised by international institutions, such as the United Nations and the European Union, because it is less bloody and warmongering than Khalifa Haftar, but, even then, it has been widely derided (such as by European countries such as France) for holding very little power on the ground, for failing to unify the country and for being too Islamist.

    Despite repeated promises to hold presidential and parliamentary elections since 2012, the only election to come to (low-turnout) fruition is the election for the (now defunct) General National Council. The GNA is more of a talking shop that presents itself relatively nicely in national fora than a functioning government which controls territory and enacts laws.

    Libya is, for the most part, anarchist territory run by tribal chiefs and men with guns. It is questionable how much concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘nation’ have even entered the Libyan mindset (not necessarily a bad thing, since these concepts have historically been used to subjugate ethnic minorities and impose laws from faraway cities with no loacal knowledge).

    As cathartic as it must have been to have Muammar Ghaddafi raped to death in a gutter by some pointed object, the revolutions that are more likely to be successful are the ones to come about through peaceful protest (read 2024’s “Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators who want to run the world”, by Anne Applebaum). Bangladesh stands a better chance than Libya of making something good of its regime overthrow.

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