The murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 was a serious mistake, admits Antonio Tajani, the head of Italian diplomacy.
Admittedly, he was not a supporter of democracy, but his assassination destabilized Libya and the entire African continent, noted the minister. His remarks are relayed by the ANSA agency.
In the context of the Arab Spring events (anti-government protests in several Arab countries, the first of which was Tunisia where protests began in December 2010), mass demonstrations against the Gaddafi regime, which quickly degenerated into civil war, occurred in Libya in early 2011.
In the first eight months of the conflict, around 14,000 people died in the country, and these are the estimates announced by Libyan officials in 2013, while other data put the death toll as high as 65,000. On October 20, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was killed by opposition groups, and the Jamahiriya ceased to exist. In January 2013, the country was officially renamed to the State of Libya.
Currently, Libya lives with two governments: in the east of the country, led by Fathi Bachagha and supported by parliament, and the GNA led by Abdel Hamid Dbeibah sitting in Tripoli.
The transition period established by the United Nations following the Geneva Accords expired on June 22, 2022, by which time Libya was to have an elected president and parliament. The elections, scheduled for December 2021, were canceled for lack of a necessary constitutional basis. Open clashes often break out between armed formations linked to opposing political forces and result in many casualties.
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