Country: Libya

Group: Tuareg

Date: 08/01/2021

Team: Alicia Hernandez (Lead) and Vianney Mancilla

Content Warning: physical violence, homicide

Approximate Time Period: 2011-present

We rated the date quality for lethal violence against Tuareg in Libya a 2, because the evidence was limited and hard to find.

 In Libya, the population estimates for the Tuareg vary between 17,000 and 560,000. Libyan Tuareg live in the west and south-west of the country, primarily in the cities of Ghat, Awbari and Ghadames (Minority, 2018). The Tuareg came to Libya from Niger and Mali in the 1970s (Minority, 2018). Gaddafi was a revolutionary, politician and political theorist in Libya, and he offered the Tuareg to enroll in his Libya army to keep the group away from hunger and revolts (Wikimedia, 2021). However once Gaddafi was ousted from the government and killed, the rebels who took power engaged in reprisal killings along with torturing, beating and arbitrarily detaining thousands of suspected Gaddafi supporters which included the Tuareg (Bianchinci, 2015). Although there wasn’t more evidence in regards to this situation, it was stated in multiple reliable sources.

Sources

  1. Bianchini S,Chambellan G, Hoppert S, and ReiserMilitary K ( September 13th 2015) Intervention in Libya: The Renewal of the Tuareg’s Self-Determination. Retrieved from https://www.e-ir.info/2015/09/13/military-intervention-in-libya-the-renewal-of-the-tuaregs-self-determination/  on Augst 1st, 2021.
  2. Minority Rights Group. (July, 2018) Tuareg. Retrieved from  https://minorityrights.org/minorities/tuareg-3/ on July 30th,2021.
  3. Stocker V( July,2015)Libya: The Forgotten War of the Tebu and Tuareg. Retrieved from https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/32594/Libya-The-Forgotten-War-of-the-Tebu-and-Tuareg on July 31st,2021. 
  4. Wikimedia Foundation. (2021, August 9). Muammar Gaddafi. Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi on July 31st,2021.