Bobaker Salah

Forced displacement of the Chinese project's residents/ Umm Al-Aranib

Aman against Discrimination condemns and denounces the systematic targeting of Toubou families residing in the Chinese construction project in Umm al-Aranib. On August 25th, armed groups violated the sanctity of safe houses, looted their property, assaulted them, detained and illegally transported hundreds of men, women, and children by trucks in an inhumane manner to the Tamanhint military base north of the city of Sebha. An estimated fifty military vehicles under the Tariq bin Ziyad and 128 battalions of the General Command of the Libyan National Army in the east of the country participated in the operation.

In interviews with members of the arrested families, we found that the attack on residential homes on Friday morning occurred after the project was surrounded. We also monitored the random arrests of Nigerien Hausa workers on public roads and in their homes outside the project.

These incidents are not the first in Umm al-Aranib, as an armed group affiliated with the General Command besieged the project and cut off its water in 2018. On November 28th 2019, the project was targeted by drone strikes, which resulted in the killing of 12 civilians, which was claimed by the General Command through its spokesperson.

These practices, committed under the pretext of combating terrorism and Chadian gangs, are nothing but ethnic-cleansing operations, which are contrary to international covenants, local and humanitarian laws.


Accordingly, we call on the General Command to immediately stop these operations, release the arrested, and reveal the fate of the missing. We call on the human rights offices in the Ministries of Interior and Justice, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, local and international organizations and the international community to assume its responsibilities towards these practices.


#Libya

التهجير القسري لسكّان الشركة الصينية/أم الأرانب


تدين منظمة الأمان لمناهضة التمييز العنصري وتستنكر بأشد العبارات الاستهداف الممنهج للعائلات التباوية المدنية المقيمة بالحي السكني في مشروع البناء الصيني بأم الأرانب، حيث قامت مجموعات مسلحة في 25 أغسطس/آب الجاري بانتهاك حرمة بيوت الآمنين ونهب ممتلكاتهم والاعتداء عليهم بالضرب والرمي بالرصاص واحتجاز المئات من الرجال والنساء والأطفال بشكل تعسفي وغير قانوني ونقلهم قسراً عبر شاحنات بطريقة مهينة وغير آدمية إلى قاعدة تمنهنت العسكرية شمالي مدينة سبها. شاركت في العملية ما يقدر عن خمسين آلية عسكرية تنطوي تحت كتيبتي طارق بن زياد و128 التابعات للقيادة العامة للقوات العربية الليبية في شرق البلاد.

وفي مقابلات موثقة مع أفراد من العائلات المعتقلة تبين أن الاعتداء على المنازل السكنية صباح يوم الجمعة حدث بعد محاصرة الحي ومنع الدخول والخروج منه. كما رصدنا الاعتقال العشوائي للهوسا النيجريين من العمالة الوافدة في الطرقات العامة ومساكنهم خارج الحي. 

هذه الوقائع ليست الأولى في أم الأرانب، حيث سبق وأن قامت مجموعة مسلحة تابعة للقيادة العامة بمحاصرة الحي وقطعت المياه عنه في 2018م. وفي 28/11/2019م، تم استهداف الحي بقصف جوي لطيران مسير نتج عنه مقتل 12 مدني من بينهم 9 أطفال دون سن 12، والذي تبنته لاحقا القيادة العامة عبر متحدثها الرسمي.

إن هذه الممارسات التي ترتكب بحجة مكافحة الإرهاب والعصابات التشادية ما هي إلا عمليات تطهير عرقي منافية للقوانين المحلية بشقيها المدني والعسكري ومخالفة لكل الشرائع الإنسانية والمواثيق الدولية.

وعليه، ندعو القيادة العامة بالوقف الفوري عن هذه العمليات وإخلاء سبيل من تم اعتقالهم وكشف مصير المفقودين، وندعو مكاتب حقوق الإنسان في وزارتي الداخلية والعدل وبعثة الأمم المتحدة للدعم في ليبيا والمنظمات المحلية والدولية بالوقوف على هذه الأوضاع، وندعو المجتمع الدولي إلى تحمل مسؤولياته تجاه هذه الممارسات الخطيرة والجسيمة.

#ليبيا

International Tobou Organization statement concerning the disappearance of the judge Mustafa Lindi from Al Kufra - Libya

International Tobou Organization, United Kingdom

International Tobou Organization (ITO) is following closely and with concern the case of the disappearance of Mr Mustafa Issa Lindi, a judge in the municipality of Jalo in Libya. He disappeared suddenly on 25/12/2020 along with his family members while in route from AL-Kufra city to his workplace in Jalo and whose fate is so far unknown.

It’s worth mentioning that this case occurred under mysterious circumstances, causing a wave of skepticism given that the aforementioned man is known to have commuted for many years via the same road without any problems; and that he was perfectly aware of its safety (since he often commuted along with his family). That being said, ITO does not exclude the likelihood of forced disappearance.

From this stand and in alignment with the organization’s core aims which consist primarily in the defence of human rights and concern for the fate of missing persons; It therefore pleads that justice is enforced in Libya in order to cases of this nature (and particularly that of Mr Lindi) to be closely followed and prevented, as well as directing all efforts in the attempt to reveal his fate.

ITO pays enormous gratitude to the security and military servicemen as well as the volunteers from the oases area in Libya who are involved diligently round the clock in an effort to unveil the fate of Mr Lindi and his family. ITO will be constantly following the development of this matter to its, hopefully proximate, outcome.

May Allah be with him and bring him back safe and sound to his family.

 

Director of International Tobou Organization

Date: 31/12/2020

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