Kikla
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Arabic ككلة Kikla |
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 4 ′ N , 12 ° 42 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Libya | ||
| al-Jabal al-Gharbi | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | LY-JG | ||
| Residents | 10,000 | ||
Kikla ( Arabic ككلة) is a Libyan city with about 10,000 inhabitants.
location
Kikla is located in the Nafusa Mountains and belongs to the al-Jabal al-Gharbi municipality . The city is located approximately 150 kilometers southwest of the capital Tripoli , east of the regional center Yafran and west of the economic center Gharyan .
History
In his travelogue about North Africa from 1849 to 1855 Heinrich Barth mentioned Kikla as the namesake for a district. The residents of the district took part in the resistance against the Turks, the villages suffered a lot and many homes were destroyed. In 1917, the British Navy's Libya Manual noted that Kikla was a group of brick-built villages and the capital of an administrative district with a total population of 8,000.
Battles 2011
Kikla was the scene of clashes between the government and insurgents several times during the civil war in Libya . On June 14, 2011, Kikla was captured by the insurgents. The war left 60 dead.
Battles 2014
In the autumn of 2014, there were again fierce fighting for control of the city. The Zintan militias allied with General Haftar and the Islamist militia alliance Fajr Libiya, supported by Qatar , were involved . The 40 days of fighting ended in a victory for the Zintan militia. They killed 142 people and injured 518. Both sides of the war committed grave human rights violations such as shooting, kidnapping and torturing innocent civilians.
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Barth : Journeys and discoveries in North and Central Africa in the years 1849 to 1855 , 1867, Volume 1 on p. 20 (googlebooks)
- ↑ Handbook of Libya Great Britain Naval Intelligence Division 1917
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/news/mideast-in-turmoil/libya-rebels-make-gains-against-gadhafi-forces-in-tripoli-1.367810
- ↑ The Tears of the Gibli , Zainab Al-Arabi, The Tripoli Post, July 2, 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Too many chiefs , The Economist, September 27, 2014
- ↑ Libya: Fighters loyal to the government conquer city from Islamists , Die Presse, November 24, 2014
- ↑ Libya: 142 dead, 518 wounded in 2 weeks of clashes in Kikla , ANSAmed, November 4, 2014
- ↑ Libya: Rule of the gun: Abductions, torture and other abuses in western Libya , Amnesty International, October 2014 (31 pp., PDF)
