al-Qawali

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Coordinates: 32 ° 0 '  N , 12 ° 38'  E

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Al-Qawali ( Arabic القواليش, DMG al-Qawālīš ; French Goualich ; English Al-Qawalish , German also al-Kawalisch and al-Gawalish ) is a Libyan town with about 4,000 inhabitants.

location

The place al-Qawalisch is on the edge of the Nafusa Mountains , 100 kilometers south of Tripoli , 50 kilometers west of Gharyan and 15 kilometers from Yafran in the municipality of al-Jabal al-Gharbi .

history

The government and rebels fought several times in al-Qawali during the civil war in Libya . The reason for this is the geostrategic importance of the place for attacks on Gharyan and the main road to Tripoli. Insurgents took the place on July 6, 2011 after heavy artillery battles. Human Rights Watch reported that Gaddafi- loyal troops had previously laid three minefields around al-Qawalish , consisting of several hundred T-AB-1 anti-personnel mines of Brazilian origin and dozens of Chinese Type-72SP landmines . The inhabitants fled from the conquest. The result was looting, vandalism and arson by the rebels. On July 13, militants loyal to Gaddafi launched a morning counterattack and briefly captured al-Qawali before they were pushed back by the rebels. On July 24th there were fierce fighting, in which heavy weapons such as missiles were used.

After the war, many residents were unable to return to their homes due to clashes with the militias of neighboring tribes. The Libyan authorities made no serious effort to assist them.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heavy fighting south of Tripoli Tagesanzeiger.ch, July 13, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Libyan rebels repel attack on al-Gawalish. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 25, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011 .
  3. ↑ NATO's Libya campaign causes civilian deaths, Russia warns. (No longer available online.) In: CNN World . July 7, 2011, archived from the original on August 4, 2011 ; accessed on August 3, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Peter Graff: Divisions hamper Libyan rebel fighters' advance. In: Reuters . July 14, 2011, accessed August 3, 2011 .
  5. ↑ a b Libyan rebels seize key western town. In: Al Jazeera . July 7, 2011, accessed August 2, 2011 .
  6. ^ Peter Graff: Western mountain rebels launch offensive southwest of Tripoli. In: Reuters. July 6, 2011, accessed August 3, 2011 .
  7. ^ Libya: Government Lays More Mines in Western Mountains Three Antivehicle and Antipersonnel Minefields Discovered. In: Human Rights Watch. July 8, 2011, accessed August 3, 2011 .
  8. ^ CJ Chivers: Reporter's Notebook: Reading the Rebels in Western Libya, Part 1. Looting and Arson in Qawalish. In: At War - The New York Times Blogs. July 10, 2011, accessed August 3, 2011 .
  9. ^ Adrian Blomfield, Ruth Sherlock: Libya's rebels lose ground along the new front line against Col Muammar Gaddafi. In: The Telegraph . July 13, 2011, accessed August 3, 2011 .
  10. ↑ The Tears of the Gibli , Zainab Al-Arabi, The Tripoli Post, July 2, 2012 ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Amnesty International, Report 2013, On the global situation of human rights , p. 257