Refl: NKRI turut menjatuhkan rezim Qadafi, sekarang Libya kacau balau, apakah rezim SBY tidak mempunyai tangung jawab terhadap penderitaan rakyat Libiya yang seagama?
http://www.smh.com.au/world/libya-unable-to-control-militia-violence-looting-20120210-1simv.html
Libya unable to control militia violence, looting
Anthony Shadid
February 11, 2012
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Violence and looting ... Libya. Photo: AP
TRIPOLI: Libya, the country that witnessed the Arab world's most sweeping revolution, is foundering.
The government of the interim Prime Minister, Abdel Rahim el-Keeb, is virtually paralysed by rivalries that have forced it to divide power along lines of regions and personalities, by unreachable expectations that Muammar Gaddafi's fall would bring prosperity and by powerlessness so marked the national army is treated like another of the many warring militias.
This week one militia assaulted another militia at a seaside base in Tripoli to rescue a woman who had been abducted.
When the guns fell silent, briefly, the scene that unfolded felt as chaotic as Libya's revolution - a government whose authority extends no farther than its offices, militias whose swagger comes from plentiful guns and residents whose patience fades with every volley of gunfire that cracks at night.
The woman was soon freed. Then the plunder began: a box of grenades, rusted heavy machineguns, ammunition belts, grenade launchers, crates of bottled water and an aquarium propped improbably on a moped were taken.
Men from a half-dozen militias ferried out the goods, occasionally firing into the air. They fought over looted cars, then shot them up when they did not get their way.
''This is destruction,'' said Nouri Ftais, a 51-year-old commander, who offered a rare, unheeded voice of reason. ''We're destroying Libya with our bare hands.''
A semblance of normality has returned after the chaotic days of the fall of Tripoli in August. But no one would consider ordinary a city where militiamen tortured to death an urbane former diplomat two weeks ago, where hundreds of refugees deemed loyal to Gaddafi wait hopelessly in a camp and where a government official acknowledges that ''freedom is a problem''.
''Some of it is really overwhelming,'' said Ashur Shamis, an adviser to the interim Prime Minister. ''But somehow we have this crazy notion that we can defeat it.''
The government could do little as grievances gave rise last month to clashes in Bani Walid, once a Gaddafi stronghold, and between towns in the Nafusa Mountains, where rival fighters, each claiming to represent the revolution, slugged it out with guns, grenades and artillery.
''It's a crisis government,'' Mr Shamis said. ''It is impossible to deliver everything.''
Officials hope that elections in May or June can do what they did in Egypt and Tunisia - convey authority to an elected body that can claim the mantle of popular will.
But Iraq remains a counterpoint. There, elections after the US invasion widened divisions so dangerously that they helped unleash a civil war.
A sense of entropy lingers here. Some state employees have gone without salaries for a year and Mr Shamis acknowledged that the government had no idea how to channel enough money into the economy so that it would be felt in the streets.
Tripoli residents complain about a lack of transparency in government decisions. Ministries still seem paralysed by the tendency, instilled during the dictatorship, to defer every decision to the top.
''They're sitting on their chairs, they're drinking coffee and they're drafting projects that stay in the realm of their imagination,'' said Israa Ahwass, a 20-year-old pharmacy student at the University of Tripoli, which was guarded by a knot of militiamen.
A Human Rights Watch researcher estimated there are 250 militias in the coastal city of Misrata, the scene of perhaps the fiercest battle of the revolution. In recent months, those militias have become the most loathed in the country.
The New York Times
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