Excellent article in Democracry Digest about Libya detailing specific demands, tribal politics.

[snagglepuss]

probable chaotic outcome whatever happens.


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Rather than Islamist-inspired, the upsurge appears to be genuinely spontaneous, with little sign of organized leadership.

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Similarly, the protesters’ demands suggest a secular, reformist agenda, at least according to a list of grievances disseminated by Ahmed Shebani, a local businessman and dissident:

“1. Salaries in Libya are governed by law number 15 which sets the average salary of Libyans at 200 dollars per month. To make things worst it is customary to have this low wage paid intermittently.

2. Law number 4 caters for the confiscation of private and commercial property, practically passing such stolen properties to the members of his family and of its so called revolutionary committee members who are in charge of security.

3. The burning down of the land registry building in Tripoli to destroy any reference of legal ownership of property.

4. The continuous discharge of untreated sewage in the sea a close proximity to the cities Tripoli and Benghazi

5. The sudden unnotified change of Libyan currency and the confiscation of Libyan personal savings in banks.

6. Civil infrastructure, healthcare and the education system have failed beyond disbelief in the last 40 years.”






http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/02/libya-whichever-way-it-goes-expect-chaos-and-bloodshed/