TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) – Six days of tribal clashes in a remote desert town in southern Libya have killed 147 people, the country's health minister said Saturday.
Fatma al-Hamroush said in a news conference in Tripoli that the fighting in Sabha has also left 395 wounded. Around 180 people have been transported to the capital Tripoli for emergency treatment, she said.
The clashes in the oasis region some 400 miles south of Tripoli show the fragile authority of the Libyan government, particularly in the isolated settlements that dot the southern desert.
With only a nascent national army and police force, Libya's ruling National Transitional Council relies on militias comprised of former rebels to keep the peace, and the country's vast distances makes it difficult to deploy them to trouble spots....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-31/libya-clashes/53914910/1
Такие сообщения появляются из свеже-демократизированной Ливии примерно каждую неделю. В отличии от событий годичной давности, они не попадают на первые страницы газет и вечерние новости, что неудивительно.
Нефть, впрочем, вроде бы течёт, и денежки правильным людям тоже. А что в окрестных пустынях происходит - до того CNN и BBC сейчас дела особo нет.