{"id":15407,"date":"2012-06-12T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=15407"},"modified":"2012-06-12T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T17:41:21","slug":"ny-review-of-books-is-libya-cracking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/ny-review-of-books-is-libya-cracking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Review of Books: Is Libya Cracking Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicolas Pelham in the New York Review of Books reports<\/a> from post-NATO-anointed Libya. The bungling interim government and the incessant\u00a0ethnic conflict are not bringing the democracy heralded by the war’s advocates:<\/p>\n

Yet for Libya\u2019s new governors, the turbulent south\u2014home to Libya\u2019s wells of water and oil\u2014is unnerving. Since Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the\u00a0NTC<\/acronym>\u00a0chairman, declared an end to the civil war last October, the violence in the south is worse than it was during the struggle to oust Qaddafi. Hundreds have been killed, thousands injured, and, according to UN figures, tens of thousands displaced in ethnic feuding. Without its dictator to keep the lid on, the country, it seems, is boiling over the sides.<\/p>\n

…Both sides speak of arming for the battle ahead. Photographs of mutilated cadavers displayed on mobile phones ensure that the scars remain open. The graffiti that raiding Zwarans left on Riqdaleen\u2019s walls threatened to turn the town into a \u201csecond Tuwagha,\u201d the site inhabited by pro-Qaddafi black Libyans that militiamen from Misrata, further east, ethnically cleansed in the fall. \u201cWe don\u2019t see a new Libya,\u201d the Riqdaleen town councilor told me. \u201cWe\u2019re starting to regret. The Berbers want us out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The issues in Libya have spread throughout the region. The displaced have fled to neighboring countries in all directions. At the same time, arms flows coming out of Libya (some 20 million guns are estimated to be circulating in Libya,” Pelham reports)\u00a0are getting into the hands of unsavory groups.\u00a0A\u00a0UN report released in February assessing<\/a>\u00a0\u201dthe Libyan crisis\u201d said the impact of the NATO-backed rebel victory over Gadhafi \u201creverberated across the world\u201d in \u201csuch neighboring countries as\u00a0Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger and Tunisia,\u201d which, \u201cbore the brunt of the challenges that emerged as a result of the crisis.\u201d The bulk of the Sahel region “had to contend with the influx of hundreds of thousands of traumatized and impoverished returnees as well as the inflow of unspecified and unquantifiable numbers of arms and ammunition from the Libyan arsenal.”<\/p>\n

Pelham writes: “Libya\u2019s turmoil is acquiring continental significance.”<\/p>\n

Aside from that, no official in Washington has dared answer for the serious violation of human rights, including torture<\/a> and extra-judicial killings<\/a>, that NATO’s proxies have committed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicolas Pelham in the New York Review of Books reports from post-NATO-anointed Libya. The bungling interim government and the incessant\u00a0ethnic conflict are not bringing the democracy heralded by the war’s advocates: Yet for Libya\u2019s new governors, the turbulent south\u2014home to Libya\u2019s wells of water and oil\u2014is unnerving. Since Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the\u00a0NTC\u00a0chairman, declared an end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15408,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions\/15408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}