Bo, sipping a tea in the Chinese shopping mall, thinks it was great to get rid of Qaddafi.
For Libyans, about to enter
decade two of misery and chaos, not so much great.
*** well, maybe waz good for those homeless 'n indigent typez, misery loves company they say:) Just ask those Yemenis! Almost as bad as the destruction of the fully functioning country of Iraq, which led to...
Any of the many folks I've worked with at UNHCR can tell you what Libya's destruction did to the migrant flow to Europe (open dem floodgates)..which has led to..
Trump was right, leave that **ish alone, and compared to his predecessors, he
relatively has...but I'll take it to another forum, or just get back to work while you folks play tag-team the dawg with the message you don't like for awhile longer.
But before I go....lol, let's set the record straight,
there was only one KING.Obama was the DEPORTATION KING. More than any other president before...or..since. Nearly double Bush!
Ass backwards. Bush almost double the number of Obama deportations. Clinton more than that:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article122715474.html
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-obama-deportations-georgia-immigrationhttp://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/human-rights-groups-outraged-over-obamas-deportation-proposal#51295https://unitedwedream.org/2014/09/breaking-president-obama-agrees-deport-70000-people-separate-countless-families/
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/12/24/167970002/obama-administration-deported-record-1-5-million-peoplehttps://reason.com/2019/06/27/actually-joe-biden-and-the-obama-administration-deported-more-people-than-trump/https://theconversation.com/immigrants-deported-under-obama-share-stories-of-terror-and-rights-violations-74212Newly released official figures show that during the first seven years of President Barack Obama’s presidency, more than 2.7 million foreign nationals were deported — the largest number in more than a century. Figures contained in the 2015 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, issued in mid-December, show that from the time Obama was inaugurated as America’s first black president on Jan. 20, 2009, through Sept. 30, 2015, a total of 2,749,854 undocumented immigrants were removed from the United States.
That’s a record.
No president since deportation figures have been kept in the 1890s has been linked to such a high number of removals, according to the Yearbook, considered the “bible” of immigration statistics among people who deal in immigration, such as attorneys who represent immigrants in court, activists who advocate for the rights of immigrants and journalists who cover the immigration beat. The runner-up behind Obama was President George W. Bush, under whose watch 2,012,539 were removed. During Bill Clinton’s presidency, 869,646 immigrants were kicked out, Yearbook figures show.*********
The armed conflict in Libya escalated in 2019, and as a result, 893,000 people, including 268,000 children,1 require humanitarian assistance. Children in Tripoli, Derna and urban areas in the west and south are particularly vulnerable. There are nearly 356,000 internally displaced persons and 448,000 returnees.2 Approximately 243,000 people require water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) assistance, 127 children are in need of education support, 526,000 people require health assistance and 220,000 children need protection services.3 Following the Libyan National Army incursion on the Government of National Accord in Tripoli and the conflict in Murzuq, 170,000 people have been newly displaced.4 There have been widespread violations of international law, including attacks on health, water and education facilities and humanitarian workers.5 Since April 2019, 500,000 children have experienced disruptions to their education in western Libya.6 Conflict-affected areas are experiencing water shortages, stock-outs of health supplies and vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles. Of the 636,000 migrants and refugees in Libya, 8 per cent are minors vulnerable to grave violations of child rights.7 Detained migrant and refugee children are held in inhumane conditions and detention centres have been hit by airstrikes. In 2019, over 700 migrants and refugees, including children, died crossing the Mediterranean from Libya.The situation in Libya remained volatile throughout the reporting period with a conflict of variable intensity that continued to put the lives of civilians at risk and to generate new internal displacement. The suffering from the unprecedented bombing and shelling in urban areas in the Western Libya, deterioration of services and rapidly declining economy resulting in increased suffering of millions of children and their families in Libya cannot be underscored. Since the start of the year, at least 18 schools have been damaged as a result of the armed conflict, affecting around 15,890 children. Continuous attacks on the water system have jeopardized health and hygiene among the civilian population, particularly those most vulnerable, including children. At least 127 wells have been rendered out of services as a result of these
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attacks, with roughly a loss of 650,000 m water/day . Regular long hours’ power cuts have further affected the people
of Libya in areas of active conflict and surrounding areas. The attacks on health facilities also continued as during the
reporting period, the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) documented two incidents targeting healthcare personnel,
3 nine assaults on health facilities and one attack on ambulance .
In April and May 2020, the aggressive offensive by the Government of National Accord (GNA) to control Tripoli and western areas saw the Libyan National Army (LNA) withdrawing from the frontlines and as a result, approximately 28,000 people (5,550 families) including 11,000 children were displaced from Tarhouna – one of the strongholds of the LNA, with majority of them displaced to Benghazi, Ejdabia, and Bani Waleed. Most of the IDPs moved with family members or rented houses, however, the authorities converted nine schools into IDP shelter centres4 to accommodate the IDPs from Tarhouna. Similarly, to accommodate the IDPs from Tarhouna, an additional nine schools were converted into IDP
5 shelters in June 2020, thus, bringing the total number of schools used as IDP shelter centres to 34 .
The reporting period also saw an increase in reports of continuous violations of international humanitarian law after the
withdrawal of the LNA from Tarhouna. Reportedly over 100 bodies including women and children were found in a
hospital in Tarhouna. In addition, at least 19 unidentified bodies were discovered in 11 mass graves in Tarhouna. The
GNA, UNSMIL and UN Secretary-General condemned the discovery of these mass graves and urged for a prompt and
transparent investigations by commissioning a ‘fact-finding mission’ by the UN Human Rights Council. The withdrawal
of the armed groups f rom the Western Libya brought about a grotesque turn. Land mines, Improvised Explosive Devices
(IED), and explosiveremnants of war (ERW) have been found inand around civilian houses in Tripoli and western areas,
putting populations on the move, especially IDPs and returnees, at significant risk. During May 22 to June 22, 2020, the
Libyan Centre for Mine Action and War Remnants recorded a total of 127 victims from mine explosions in Tripoli and
around Sirte, including 55 members of mine-clearing teams who were killed and injured during demining. On 28 May,
UNICEF, together with the UNMAS and the LibMAC, condemned the use of IED/booby traps against civilians and impact
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