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| Libya: Anti-Muslim Brotherhood protests in Zawia |
| 2013-10-27 |
| [Libya Herald] Residents in Zawia have been staging a protest in its main square, Martyrs Square, against the local council, the General National Congress and the government. Protestors claim that the council and Congress, in particular, are dominated by the Moslem Brüderbund. Demonstrations were said to have been launched from several mosques in the town against the Moslem Brüderbund after Friday prayers yesterday, demanding changes in both bodies. According to former Zawia Local Council member Abdulfattah Ammar, the protests started on Wednesday afternoon, after Dhuhur prayers with "hundreds of people" converging on the square. "There were young and old people at the protest from all walks of life with no political orientation demanding the GNC a change course," he stressed. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... according to the head of Zawia Local Council, Mohammed Khathrawi, the protestors, who he said had been attending the funeral of one of the town's revolutionaries, were not against the Brotherhood. Rather they were calling for better performances by the council and government and changes in the GNC. Members of the council, he told the Libya Herald, had gone to the square to negotiate with them. This latter is denied by Ammar who insists that the local council did not react to the protests nor did it enter into dialogue with the protesters. |
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