If there was any doubt that the ousting of Khadaffy was to
settle old scores between him and the monarchists must now be put to rest.
Eastern Libya has declared autonomy and declared one of King Idris descendants
as leader and is now flying Libya’s flag in the time of king Idris. Although this was obvious early on; the west
turned a blind eye and the media shunned mentioning the truth behind the revolt
but instead fabricated the so-called-thousands-slaughtered allegedly by Khadaffy’s
forces that was never independently confirmed. It is this west’s crime of lies
that is unfortunately turning away real support for the rebels in Syria.
Eastern Libya pulls away from central government
· AP foreign, Tuesday March 6 2012
RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI
Associated Press= BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi.
Thousands of representatives of major tribes, militia commanders and politicians made the declaration at a conference in the main eastern city of Benghazi, insisting it was not intended to divide the country. They said they want their region to remain part of a united Libya, but needed to do this to stop decades of discrimination against the east.
The conference declared that the eastern state, known as Barqa, would have its own parliament, police force, courts and capital — Benghazi, the country's second largest city — to run its own affairs. Foreign policy, the national army and oil resources would be left to the central government in the capital Tripoli in western Libya. Barqa would cover nearly half the country, from the center to the Egyptian border in the east and down to the borders with Chad and Sudan in the south.
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