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Today, Explained

The renegade general

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Libya’s ongoing civil war has escalated into one of its bloodiest moments yet—the bombing of a migrant detention center in Tripoli. Analyst Anas El Gomati explains why the likeliest culprit is a rogue Libyan general who worked with the CIA and once launched a coup online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We talk a lot about the migrant crisis at the southern border of the United States on the show,

0:28.5

about how inhumane it presently is.

0:31.4

But imagine if on top of all of it, one of the detention centers down there was bombed.

0:40.0

That's how bad things just got in Libya.

0:43.1

Dozens of bodies are hauled out of a migrant detention center in the suburbs of Tripoli.

0:49.4

It's the most reported casualties in a strike since forces loyal to Halifah Haftar launched an offensive on the capital three months ago.

0:57.9

An air strike at a migrant center killed at least 40 civilians and wounded more than a hundred others.

1:04.3

This is the migrant detention center in Tajoura neighborhood in the eastern suburb of Libya and capital.

1:10.9

Tripoli, it has just been hit by an air strike.

1:14.5

Dead bodies are still under the law.

1:17.0

It's an unthinkable development in a situation that was already completely desperate.

1:22.4

The victims are among tens of thousands of Africans hoping to cross the Mediterranean Sea to start a new life in Europe.

1:29.1

The UN's special envoy to Libya is calling it a war crime.

1:35.2

Libya has been at war with itself for years, but this attack on a migrant detention center is the bloodiest escalation.

1:43.5

So this actually comes on the back of a different set of operations that have been taking place over the last three and a half months.

1:51.2

We're almost at the 100 day mark now.

1:53.4

Two opposing forces are fighting for control in Libya.

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