With support of Qatar, Al-Wefaq forcing African migrants to fight Libyan national army

Ayat Ezz

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently published a report on migrants in Libya, in which it said that the number of African migrants residing in Tripoli is estimated at 110,000.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirmed that all Africans living in Libya are being brutally abused by terrorist militias and are being forced into recruitment for acts that serve terrorism.

With the advance of the Libyan national army towards the capital Tripoli to liberate them from terrorist groups, the government of Al-Wefaq, supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey, played the immigrant card against the national army, and began to use them to carry out more terrorist operations in their favor.

In several reports, the Libyan National Movement asserted that the government and its militias are exploiting African migrants to carry out major terrorist operations against the national army, making them in the first rows of these confrontations, and forcing them to recruit without charge.

In addition, the United Nations revealed in a report on Thursday that a large number of Africans living in Libya were detained by terrorist militias in inhumane places belonging to the government of Al-Wefaq, and any person who tries to escape is shot by the militias.

This means that the guards are charged with preventing them from escaping for their knowledge of the attack in advance or in their desire to have as many victims as possible, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) report.

“The European Union is making every effort in cooperation with United Nations agencies to help immigrants, and our goal and priority is to save people’s lives,” said Federica Mugherini, spokeswoman for the EU’s High Representative for Security and Foreign Policy.

According to a study prepared by Ibrahim Heiba, a Libyan researcher professor of international relations and comparative policies, there are many Chadian groups working and residing in the southern Libyan fighting against the national army, and Qatar supports these groups for the sake of democracy and justice in Chad.

“This movement is entirely composed of the Tabu people (an ethnic group in northern Chad), most of whom have moved to work in southern Libya as activists who claim to be Libyans and cause confusion in the region.

“The Revolutionary Armed Forces for the Sahara is one of the Chadian armed groups in southern Libya funded by the State of Qatar. It is also composed of the Tibetan people who moved in 2011 to work in southern Libya.

In a special statement to the Reference, Magdi Ismail, a Libyan political analyst, said that African migrants, specifically from Chad, Somalia and Mali, are one of the most important elements used by the government of Al-Sarraj and its militias because they exploit the poverty of these elements, and recruit them for using them in the war against the Libyan national army forces, claiming they will receive financial support, but ultimately do not take anything but rather are killed and detained.