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Ref #Libya, article missing the following info:
1 "UN-recognized" gov expired in '17; adopted TU-QA proxy militia cartel they were mandated to dismantle
2 GNA was never never ratified by UN-recognized elected parliament
3 "Opposition forces" = Libyan national army, parliament https://twitter.com/ahval_en/status/1324262563677265921
1 "UN-recognized" gov expired in '17; adopted TU-QA proxy militia cartel they were mandated to dismantle
2 GNA was never never ratified by UN-recognized elected parliament
3 "Opposition forces" = Libyan national army, parliament https://twitter.com/ahval_en/status/1324262563677265921
Bonus video: the apparently exasperated FM of the GNA answers a silly question:
#Libya https://twitter.com/Eljarh/status/861640180863836160
#Libya https://twitter.com/Eljarh/status/861640180863836160
See this 2016 guide to militias as it is context and bulwark against the obscurantism, vagueness and outright deception that characterizes post 2017 #Libya coverage. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-19744533
For a more visceral picture of who #Turkey+ #Qatar 
support in #Libya, read the report below published a few months before the LNA launched an unsuccessful offensive to remove them. "GNA forces"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/01/inside-tripoli-chaos-corruption-militas-rule-streets
support in #Libya, read the report below published a few months before the LNA launched an unsuccessful offensive to remove them. "GNA forces" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/01/inside-tripoli-chaos-corruption-militas-rule-streets
This past August, the unelected, unratified, expired "UN recognized" GNA, the political proxy of #Turkey+ #Qatar and now the umbrella group of #Libya's outlaw Islamist militias, opened fire (again) on peaceful protesters in Tripoli, the capital. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/08/libya-heavy-weaponry-used-to-disperse-peaceful-protesters-demanding-economic-rights/
and now the umbrella group of #Libya's outlaw Islamist militias, opened fire (again) on peaceful protesters in Tripoli, the capital. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/08/libya-heavy-weaponry-used-to-disperse-peaceful-protesters-demanding-economic-rights/
I find it curious when writers add the prefix "UN-recognized" without completing a full description of the GNA such as
a. how it was never ratified by the UN recognized parliament and b. it has expired. Omitting these facts obscures one of the main drivers of the #Libya conflict
a. how it was never ratified by the UN recognized parliament and b. it has expired. Omitting these facts obscures one of the main drivers of the #Libya conflict
+attempts to confer a false legitimacy to a foreign propped militia junta. After all, the Khmer Rouge, along with other notorious regimes were also "UN-recognized." Such poor and tactically lazy coverage of #Libya reminds of the proverb: "half a truth is worse than a whole lie."
