Libya: Berber Town Beseiged
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« Libya: Berber Town Beseiged ». 2008. Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series 45 (12): 17792A-17792B. doi:10.1111/j.1467-825X.2009.02101.x, bibliographie, consulté le 8 juin 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/27831
- Titre
- Libya: Berber Town Beseiged
- Date
- 2009-01
- Dans
- Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Résumé
- Activists claim that the authorities on December 25th launched a security campaign against the Berber town of Yafran,170km south-west of Tripoli, the Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported. Fathi Bin-Khalifah, coordinatorof the Libyan Action Group and the Lib-yan Amazighs’ Grouping, said in a tele-phone contact from his base in Moroccothat the Libyan authorities were besiegingthe town, electronically jamming telephonecontacts between it and the outside world,and also banning anyone coming fromother areas from entering. He claimed thatthere was intensive security deploymentafter units from the anti-riot Central Sup-port Forces were brought in and that hehad received information that military air-craft had flown over the town which has apopulation of around 50,000.According to assertions by Bin-Khalifahand various Amazigh (Berber) internetwebsites, groups from the ‘‘Youth Lea-gues’’ ofSayf-al-Islam, the second son ofLibyan Leader ColonelMouammar Gad-dafy, and elements from the Revolution-ary Committees attacked the capital ofJabal Nafusah and encircled and raidedthe houses of some known Amazigh fig-ures. Local residents said they did notknow the specific reason for the securitycampaign, while some sources said theLibyan authorities were punishing all theAmazighs because some of their leadershad taken part in an expanded recentconference held to discuss their condi-tions in the Maghreb.But Bin-Khalifah said ‘‘there is no direct orimmediate cause for these events’’ andnoted that the ‘‘International AmazighCongress’’, which adopts the Amazighs’causes from its base in France, had a meet-ing recently with Colonel Gaddafy andadded: ‘‘There are no signs or indications.What happened was sudden and there wereabsolutely no moves beforehand other thanthe regime’s attempt to get rid of thenatives and create a new pit of tension.’’Amazigh activists claim that their influenceand presence in Libyan social, profes-sional, economic, scientific, administrative,and military circles could have aroused thefears of the authorities towards thembecause of their opposition to any attemptto bequeath leadership of the nation toCol. Gaddafy’s son.Yafran with its Amazigh majority is thesecond Libyan town to witness suddentroubles following the violence thatoccurred a few weeks earlier in Al-Kufrahtown in the south of Libya between theLibyan authorities and the local citizens.They were demonstrating against their dete-riorating living conditions and the central authorities’ neglect of their rights to have official identity cards in addition to depriving their sons of the right to government education and other basic services.(Al-Sharq al-Awsat website 27⁄12: BBC Mon.)
- Sujet
- Vie politique -- Djebel Nefousa Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Langue
- eng
- volume
- 45
- numéro
- 12
- pages
- 17792A-17792B
- doi
- 10.1111/j.1467-825X.2009.02101.x
- issn
- 00019844, 1467825X
- Titre abrégé
- Libya
« Libya: Berber Town Beseiged ». 2008. Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series 45 (12): 17792A-17792B. doi:10.1111/j.1467-825X.2009.02101.x, bibliographie, consulté le 8 juin 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/27831
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