Libya's new nationalist-dominated parliament held its first meeting Saturday, boycotted by Islamists, in a sign of deep divisions still plaguing a violence-racked country from which thousands are fleeing. The parliament, elected June 25, is to take over from the interim General National Congress chosen in the wake of the 2011 NATO-backed revolution that ousted longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi. It was to have convened in Benghazi on Monday, but the meeting was brought forward and shifted to Tobruk for security reasons. Both Benghazi and the capital, Tripoli, are the scene of regular fighting that has killed more than 200 people and wounded a**ther 1,000 in the past two weeks.
08-04-2014, 04:15 PM
New Libya parliament meets amid ongoing violence
Libya's new nationalist-dominated parliament held its first meeting Saturday, boycotted by Islamists, in a sign of deep divisions still plaguing a violence-racked country from which thousands are fleeing. The parliament, elected June 25, is to take over from the interim General National Congress chosen in the wake of the 2011 NATO-backed revolution that ousted longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi. It was to have convened in Benghazi on Monday, but the meeting was brought forward and shifted to Tobruk for security reasons. Both Benghazi and the capital, Tripoli, are the scene of regular fighting that has killed more than 200 people and wounded a**ther 1,000 in the past two weeks.
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