Abd al-Fattah Yunis
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Abd al-Fattah Yunis al-Ubaidi ( Arabic عبد الفتاح يونس العبيدي, DMG ʿAbdu l-Fattāḥ Yūnis al-ʿUbaidī ; * 1944 ; † July 28, 2011 ) was a Libyan politician , interior minister and major general of the Libyan army . Most recently he was Commander in Chief of the Libyan National Liberation Army in the civil war .
Life
Yunis was born in 1944 in al-Jabal al-Achdar in eastern Libya. As a young officer, he took part in the 1969 coup of the “League of Free Officers” led by Muammar al-Gaddafi . He was in charge of the cast of the radio station in Benghazi .
He later helped found the Libyan Army's special forces and took part in the border wars against Egypt and Chad in the 1970s and 1980s .
In 2009 he was appointed Minister of the Interior by Gaddafi. In this role he led the negotiations with the European Union on the prevention of illegal immigration to Europe. After the outbreak of civil war in Libya, Yunis resigned from all offices on February 22, 2011 and placed himself at the service of the National Transitional Council, which was founded a little later . His resignation came one day after the resignation of Justice Minister Mustafa Abd al-Jalil , who took over the chairmanship of the transition council. In the newly formed Libyan rebel army , Yunis was appointed commander in chief.
After Khalifa Belqasim Haftar returned from exile in the United States, some media reported that he had taken over command. The transition council immediately denied this.
Yunis was shot on 28 July 2011 on the way from the front near Brega to Benghazi together with Colonel Mohamed Chamis and Commander Nasser Madhur. According to one of his staff officers, it is said to have been an act of revenge by radical Islamists . According to the oil minister of the National Transitional Council , Ali Tarhouni , an arrested leader of a friendly militia confessed that his subordinates had carried out the murder.
Web links
- Article about Abdel Fattah Yunis on aljazeera.net (Arabic)
- Libya after General Younis's murder: Q and A with Noman Benotman ( Memento from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ( Quilliam Foundation ), August 3, 2011
- Jonathan Stock: Gaddafi's most dangerous opponent. Rebel leader Fattah Junis. In: Spiegel Online . March 14, 2011, Retrieved March 27, 2011 (Portrait of Abdel Fattah Yunis).
- Marc Thörner : June, the martyr. Civil War in Libya. In: the daily newspaper . August 12, 2011, accessed on August 12, 2011 (report on the hero worship that began shortly after the death of Abd al-Fattah Yunis).
Individual evidence
- ^ Libya opposition's senior leader dead , al Jazeera of July 28, 2011
- ^ Libyan rebel efforts frustrated by internal disputes over leadership. In: guardian.co.uk. April 3, 2011, accessed May 31, 2011 .
- ^ Libyan rebel commander Abdel Fattah Younes killed. In: BBC News. July 29, 2011, accessed July 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Spiegel-Online July 30, 2011: Allies are said to have shot rebel commanders
- ↑ Spiegel-Online July 29, 2011: Abd al-Fattah Junis: Death of a defector
- ^ Libyan rebels 'killed their leader'. In: Sky News. July 30, 2011, accessed September 5, 2011 .
- ^ NATO attack on Gaddafi's "terror broadcasts" ( memento from October 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de from July 30, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yunis, Abd al-Fattah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | عبد الفتاح يونس (Arabic); al-Obaidi, Abdel Fattah Yunis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Libyan general and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 2011 |