Siden Muammar Gaddafis fald har Libyens ikke-arabiske minoritetsgrupper, herunder ca. 250.000 tuareger, insisteret på deres rettigheder.
SEBHA/OUBARI/MURZUQ, 24 May 2012 (IRIN) – “Gaddafi’s policy was ‘keep your dog hungry so that he follows you’,” said one Tuareg activist, al-Hafiz Mohamed Sheikh.
“This means keeping people in need. With Tuaregs, he said many times that we would have our rights, but he never fulfilled his promises. Sometimes he would favour some individuals, but not whole communities.”
Political marginalization
Flying over the ramshackle houses in Tayuri settlement in Libya’s southwestern city of Sebha are the blue, green and yellow flags of the Imazighen (non-Arab minorities).
During Gaddafi’s time, the Imazighen, including the Tuaregs, experienced cultural and political marginalization, with the regime instituting an all-encompassing pan-Arabic ideology and refusing to recognize them as a distinct ethnic group indigenous to the country and the region.
New local associations
Since Gaddafi’s fall, nine new local associations have emerged in Tayuri promoting the rights of Tuaregs.
According to the International Crisis Group, the Arabization of Imazighen communities, “advanced more rapidly and completely in Libya than in any other Maghreb country”.
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