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https://5pillarsuk.com/2020/01/23/the-countries-who-destroyed-libya-are-now-pretending-to-save-itPublished by: 5 PILLARS on 23 Jan 2020
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The countries that colluded in the destruction of Libya are now pretending to be trying to save the country, argues veteran Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan. Nobody is saying it, but it has to be said. The countries currently trying to bring peace to Libya are the same countries that destroyed itten years ago.
Most of the twelve states that attended Sunday’s Berlin Conference – with the notable exception of Algeria – were and continue to be complicit in that process.
They either contributed directly to Libya’s destruction or indirectly through their silence (and implicit approval), or their collusion via local or regional clients.
Their victims were, and remain, the Libyan people, whose wellbeing was, and remains, the last thing on the mind of most of the Berlin conference.
The truth is they met to share out the spoils — Libya’s oil and gas, and its reconstruction and infrastructure projects — and also to consider other, less important, matters: such as how, by [...]
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What is Libya?Libya is a sovereign state in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. The country is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of
almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world.
