Libya: the people of Tripoli celebrate the revolution and castigate Marshal Haftar
The Tripolitan crowd gathered on February 17, 2021 to celebrate the fall of Muammar Gadhafi's regime.
REUTERS - HAZEM AHMED
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The celebrations lasted much of the day and night.
In Tripoli, the population and the former rebels celebrated the tenth anniversary of the start of the insurgency that ended Muammar Gaddafi's reign in October 2011. While Marshal Haftar made former cadres of Gaddafi's army his allies to take power, the architects of the Libyan revolution in Tripoli redoubled their fervor yesterday to attack their enemy in the East.
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correspondent in Tripoli,
Aabla Jounaïdi
The blood of martyrs will not be shed in vain.
The slogans and symbols of the February 17 revolution are displayed louder than ever in Tripoli.
The city does not forget the long and fierce war which still opposed it last year to Marshal Haftar.
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We are celebrating our revolution here but in the east and south people are not free to do so.
We attacked people who were trying to come from Sebha.
There are counter-revolutionaries who are still waging war on us,
”annoys Mohamed El-Chennewi, a former rebel from Tripoli.
Haftar's coup has reactivated the battle for legitimacy between the so-called revolutionary camp and that of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army of the Marshal.
Ahmed Laarbi lost his leg during the Battle of Sirte in 2011. He will never be able to join any army ...
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I had to flee Benghazi because of this tyrant of Haftar.
I hope that our next government can organize the elections and that we can really choose our leaders.
So that they no longer impose themselves by force.
The rebels no longer want to fight for leaders, they want to join an army, a national police.
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He waged war on Libya from Benghazi to Derna, and from southern Libya to Tripoli,"
Mohamed El-Chennewi continues.
He destroyed, killed everything that was in its path.
But we still make a place for him at the dialogue table and he's still on stage.
We reject that outright.
We carry a message on behalf of all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in giving their lives for this revolution.
They did this for a democratic and Muslim state, sovereign and which guarantees the application of the law.
We are not Islamists, we just want a state that is not in the hands of corrupt people or criminals.
We do not want war criminals like Haftar and the politicians who support him.
They want an army which is at the service of a man and not of the Nation.
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In response to demonstrations celebrating February 17, Gaddafi's Jamahiriya green was out on the streets of Sirte on Wednesday.
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