"... The end for Gaddafi called tribes Warfala, Zintan, Rojahan, Orfella, Riain, the Farjane to Zuwayya, Tuareg. The same as in 1911 faced Italians during the war in Libya. They are the past that does not pass: the great tribes that have broken this "pact" that has been one of the pillars forty-core power of Muammar Gaddafi. These are the tribes, which belong to more than 140, 85 percent of the Libyans, to have raised in Libya, the young intellectuals nor the working masses, the country that are largely composed of foreign workers. They could deal the final blow to the regime of Colonel. And with the large tribes, the international community will have to face Libya in the post-Saddam. To prevent the pulverization of the state. To avert a new Somalia.
Alliances are redefined. New agreements were signed. This marked the end of Saddam. Each of the main tribe is represented nell'establishment military and people's committees and revolutionary made after Gadhafi seized power in 1969. Some clans have for decades in fighting among themselves for power, but the fighting until a few days ago had remained latent, also thanks to the mediation of the same leaders and the proceeds of oil and gas. A mediation that is skipped. Definitely.
The Tuareg, who are half a million in Libya, have accepted the "call to arms" of the tribe Warfala, with more than one million people in the country. Also one of the leaders Warfala said that Gaddafi "is no longer a brother" and must leave Libya. The leaders of the tribe Warfala are among the main opponents of the government, to the point that, according to sources, organized in 1993 with an Air Force generals attempted coup d'etat against the Colonel then failed. And the chief of the tribe in the Eastern Desert Zuwayya had threatened to halt oil exports if the authorities did not put an end to repression. Last Sunday also Orfella tribe, which has ninety thousand people, has decided to support the insurgency. In recent days, leaders of the tribes and Warfalla Zuwayya, concentrated in the east of the country, have withdrawn their support for Gaddafi. The Zuwayya have even threatened to block oil exports. And the many other tribes of Cyrenaica (Zuwayah, Awaqir, Abid, Barasa, Majabrah, Awajilah, Minifah, Abaydat, Fawakhir and others) seemed to follow that choice.
entire population Cyrenaica, on the other hand, has always considered the 1969 coup against King Idris and the monarchy Senussi the same way as the hegemony of the Libyans "Western" on the fate of the country. Different situation in Tripoli. Here's accession Zintan tribe, originally from the eponymous town south of Tripoli, to protest against Gaddafi, has indeed led to dissent in the western part of the country, but confirmed - to tribal rivalries - those Rayaina, Siaan, and Hawamed Nawayel in the opposite camp. Before loyal and now "neutral" are the clans of the Berber area of \u200b\u200bmeasurement. Even in the vast Fezzan, the southern part of the country, there is an intricate tribal composition. In addition to Mahamid Arabs, we find the non-Arab tribes of Tabu, which populate areas Qatrun Sabha and oasis of Kufrah. Gaddafi also lined up against most of the tribes of southern Libya and the clan of al-Furjana, whose members live mainly in the city of Sirte.
"In the short-term prospects are very bleak for Libya - notes Robert Danin, the Arab Council on Foreign Relations in New York - that it was unclear if he can survive as a united nation or if the will to prevail ' identity of a decentralized country in which the collective identity is very weak to prevail and have the loyalty to tribe and clan with rooted in past centuries. " "The tribe Magariha one side is grateful to Gaddafi that obtained from Britain for the release of al-Megrahi BaseT" already jailed for involvement in the Lockerbie bombing, "but the other did not forget Defenestration Jallud (l ' former prime minister who was the Colonel at his side for almost ten years before he ousted, accusing him of plotting against him, ndr) "still seen as a serious offense. Since Magariha are estimated at nearly one million souls, are well-armed and economically strong will be critical in the overthrow of Saddam and the establishment of a new balance of power in Libya in the future, "reflects the academic Egyptian Faraj Abdulaziz Najam, specializing in Libyan history.
"The Tribe (qabila) is the only institution which for centuries has shaped, and regulated the company defended the Arab population (Berber and in small part) that have inhabited the region called the beginning of the twentieth century by Italian colonizers Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan, "remarked Aldo Nicosia on Limes. "The affirmation of tribal political system - continues Nicosia - strongly backed and supported by the Gaddafi regime is to prevent the emergence of a civil society based on democratic and pluralistic institutions (which contrasts with the obvious demagoguery of the slogan of" power to the masses " ) begins to cause the withdrawal of the Libyan tribe, and in parallel plunges the country into corruption at all levels. " Tribal belonging destined to mark the present and the future of Libya. With or without Saddam. "
Umberto De Giovannangeli: "The Unit" February 26, 2011
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