Listen – Libya: The curse of the militias
Mohamed El-Doufani* writes:
Libyan activist and popular rapper Assem Mihirig shares with us a deeply insightful analysis, derived from direct experience, of the workings and power of the militias blighting Libya and the thinking of their leaders, and offers a view of how they can be dealt with.
They were hailed as heroes while they were fighting Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in 2011. But not all was as it seemed.
From the outset Gaddafi had blamed the Islamists for the protests against his regime. Although he was right, by that time he had become an embarrassing eccentric and the butt of jokes the world over, and few people took him seriously.
The first foreign voice to raise the alarm was Admiral James Stavridis, the American commander of NATO, who in March 20...










