Tiji
| Tiji | |||
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 0 ′ N , 11 ° 20 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Libya | ||
| Nalut | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | LY-NL | ||
| Residents | 13,000 (2010) | ||
Tiji ( Arabic تيجي Tīdschī , DMG Tīǧī ) is a small town in the municipality of Nalut in northwest Libya . It is located about 240 km southwest of Tripoli in the Nafusa Mountains . The main road from Tripoli to the Tunisian borderruns through the city. It is on the northern edge of an oil field . In 2010 the city had around 13,000 inhabitants.
Tiji was the location of a barracks of the Libyan armed forces . It was bombed on May 25, 2011 as part of the international intervention in the Libyan civil war , and two RAF aircraft dropped a total of nine bombs on the barracks. In an offensive lasting several days at the end of July 2011, some of which took place during a violent sandstorm, Gaddafi's opponents tried to take the city. Troops loyal to Gaddafi, who had previously been driven from the surrounding cities, holed up in Tiji and offered resistance with rocket fire. The “Revolutionary Brigade of Tripoli”, in which exiled Libyans also fought, was involved in the offensive. They believed the residents of Tiji were Gaddafi loyalists and threatened them with revenge during the fighting. The Tijis City Council denied this and stated that they did not raise the new flag fast enough. After conquering the city and the surrounding villages, the militias destroyed 200 houses, the hospital and schools and displaced more than 11,000 of the 18,000 residents because of their alleged loyalty to Gaddafi. They also abducted and illegally detained 41 men. The background to the dispute is a dispute over land: the majority of the Berber militias accused the Arabs living in Tiji of living on land that had been taken from them by Gaddafi in favor of the Arabs. After the end of the civil war, the disputes continued. At least 1,800 people were again displaced in May 2013, 900 of whom found refuge with host families.
In the summer of 2013, Libya planned to open an additional border crossing to Tunisia between Tiji and the Tunisian city of Mashhad Salih . This met demands that the residents of the border region had been raising since 2012. The head of the city council of Nalut expressed concerns about the presence of the remaining Gaddafi supporters, but most of the residents expected a considerable economic revival and an easier contact with Tunisia.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rival rebel factions clash in Libya, 4 dead, USA Today, July 31, 2014
- ^ Daniel Clark-Lowes, Don Hallett, Petroleum Geology of Libya , Elsevier, 2002, pp. 368-370, at Google Books
- ↑ Information on a picture of the Royal Air Force
- ^ The Atlantic, Six Months of Civil War in Libya, image no.25
- ↑ UNICEF Situation Report # 21 - Sub-regional Libya crisis, August 1, 2011
- ↑ Irishman swaps Dublin's nightlife for Libya's frontlines, Reuters, August 1, 2011
- ^ Western Mountain battle shows complexities of Libya conflict, Reuters, July 31, 2011
- ^ Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya, March 2, 2012 , United Nations Human Rights Council; P. 133–134 ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 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.
- ^ Refugees International & Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict CIVIC : Libya: Protect Vulnerable Minorities & Assist Civilians Harmed, Report, August 11, 2011
- ↑ ICRC Report: Libya: Helping people resume normal life, 24-07-2013 Operational Update No 02/13
- ↑ Calls mount for new Libya-Tunisia border crossing, Magharebia, February 21, 2012
- ^ Libya plans new land crossing with Tunisia, Magharebia, 23 August 2013
