Tag Archives: Refugees

TWELVE TAWERGHAN REFUGEES KILLED BY RACIST REBELS

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Lizzie Phelan Blog JANZOUR, TRIPOLI – The death toll from yesterday’s attack by the Misrata brigade on a refugee camp in Tripoli has reached 12. Doctors and locals report that two of the dead were women and one elderly man. … Continue reading →

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‘Libya is like Somalia’

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

Indepth Africa/The Sunday Times Somali asylum seekers who fled Libya by boat and were brought to Malta last weekend tell Patrick Cooke that Africans still risk beatings and even death in post-Gaddafi Libya. Zakaria and a fellow Somali were exhausted … Continue reading →

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Tawergha refugees plan to go home despite risk of attack

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

Dec 14 (Reuters) – Thousands of former supporters of Muammar Gaddafi who fled their town because of revenge attacks will try to return next week, their leaders said on Wednesday, risking a confrontation with their neighbours. Tawargha, a town about … Continue reading →

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Africans stuck in Tunisia after fleeing from Libya

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

African workers in particular were frequently targeted by Gaddafi’s opponents, who sometimes accused them of working for the government as mercenaries. Most of the Libyans have gone back home or have found new places to stay, and most of the … Continue reading →

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Waging a Savage War on Libyan People – Lizzie Phelan

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

I watched their heartbroken and incensed loved ones bury the 33 children, 32 women and 20 men NATO claimed were likely to be part of the military or “mercenaries”. Most of the population of the Zlitan town Majer turned out … Continue reading →

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Italy demands to know if Libya blockade warship ignored refugees

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

NATO’s false pretext of war based on ‘humanitarianism’ plainly exposed once again Italy has demanded that Nato inquire into a report that an alliance warship blockading Libya repeatedly ignored pleas to help several hundred distressed and dying asylum seekers who … Continue reading →

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Refugees from Benghazi speak out against rebels and NATO

Posted on August 5, 2011 by
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