New opinion polls, economic statistics and human rights reports from Libya point to one conclusion: Western policy to keep Libya weak and divided is a resounding success. Unrelenting declineThe Gallup poll, however, is but the latest in a plethora of reports detailing Libya’s unrelenting decline since 2011. Human rights violationsIn 2010, before NATO's intervention, Amnesty International reported that in Libya, "serious human rights violations continue" and that "victims of human rights abuses have little hope of judicial protection and redress, while those responsible for torture, unlawful killings etc enjoy total impunity." The human rights organisation noted, though, that, "in a few short years, Libya has transformed itself from a pariah state to an active member of the international community." Yet the link between that intervention and Libya’s current problems is hard to deny: after all, it was precisely NATO’s war that destroyed the state’s security and public service infrastructure, and left power fragmented in the hands of the rival militias now slugging it out.

Source: Libya Today May 28, 2019 14:37 UTC