Saturday 11 July 2015

TRIPOLI MILITARY PARADE 11.7.2015 ' ITALIAN PRESS COMMENT

Forget "Arab Spring". Libyans are fed up with both of the revolution is the Islamists of the Libyan Alba, who conquered the capital last year. So they deserted the annual parade for the liberation of Tripoli.

LIBERATION OF TRIPOLI. Several acronyms of rebels, with the help of NATO, have conquered the capital of Libya 27 August 2011, after a week of battles street by street with loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi. Since then, every year the liberation is celebrated on the 20th day of Ramadan, when Muslims generally remember the conquest of Mecca by Muhammad.

THERE WAS NO ONE. This year on the 20th of Ramadan fell on July 8, but there are very few Libyans who took to the streets to celebrate, reports the Libya Herald. "There was no one in the parade square of the martyrs, except for a few children and a tiny group of soldiers of the Libyan Alba."

PARLIAMENT coup. From a stage set up in the square spoke Busahmein Nuri, chairman of Parliament coup of Tripoli (Gnc), other than that officially recognized and elected by the people in 2014, who was forced to flee in the east, in Tobruk, after the capital was occupied by the Islamists of the Libyan Alba following the vote. "It was a square ghost," says a witness, "Busahmein spoke to himself," although before the parade "in so many have tried to get people to go."

"A NO MATTER MORE NOTHING." The celebration did not last even two hours. Two years ago, but last year, the Martyrs Square was filled with people. Another witness says the reason for this disaffection to a date that marked the recent life of the country: "People of Tripoli not care anymore of the revolution, let alone those who are in power. They just want to get on with their lives. And when this is increasingly difficult. "

NATIONAL UNITY. The UN envoy, Bernardino Léon, is trying for months to form a government of national unity, bringing together the governments of Tripoli and Tobruk to more easily counter the advance of the Islamic state in the country, who took advantage of chaos into which it sank Libya for years. Although it seems that an agreement is possible and that the parties are close, the fateful date of signature is constantly being postponed for months.

THE SPEECH. At about the negotiations, Busahmein said during the commemoration that Tripoli will accept an agreement if its parliament will be recognized as the legitimate one. The proposal is obviously inadmissible by Tobruk, whose assembly was elected by popular vote by universal suffrage in 2014. Even so, Busahmein he added in a conciliatory tone: "The country can reach an agreement, no one wants a monopoly of power, neither the capital nor any other city. Last year's war, however, was intended to encourage [the Parliament], as some claim, but only to ensure peace and security. " The current state of the country shows that things could not be more different.

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