Tawergha Municipality

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Tawergha—water & dates.

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Tawergha was once a bustling town of 50,000 Libyans.

It is now completely abandoned. On August 11, NTC fighters led by Misrata brigades overtook Gaddafi forces there. In the days following, Misrata brigades ransacked the town and forced the remaining population to flee. Since then, Misrata rebels and militias have carried out reprisal attacks against Tawerghans and are preventing the population from returning. Tawerghans, known for their strong loyalties to Gaddafi, claim they are being collectively punished for the acts of a few soldiers from their town. The Misratans maintain that the Tawerghans committed, or harbored those who committed, atrocities during the long and bloody three-month siege of Misrata, including indiscriminate shelling of civilians and systematic acts of rape.

The Tawerghans fled to areas considered more ‘sympathetic’ to their plight, mostly to the desert in Jufra district. Tawerghans in a makeshift IDP camp in Benghazi said they were pursued for weeks by vengeful Misrata brigades. One man in his 40s said that he and his family, along with dozens of other Tawerghan families, were attacked by Misrata rebels – first in Hisha (70 km south of Tawergha) and then again further south in Jufra. There, a Misrata brigade called Katiba al Mout (“Death Brigade”) beat men, women, and children, and dragged several of them off to detention. Some Tawerghan youths were shot and killed in front of them.

North Benghazi Club

Sidi Younis

Benghazi, Libya.

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Phone: 218 92 690 4764

Email: info@tawergha.ly