ISSN 2348-1218 (print) International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations ISSN 2348-1226 (online) Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp: (14-17), Month: October - December 2021, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
AN ANALYSIS OF TERRORISM IN LIBYA (2011-2018) 1
SYLVESTER EKPUDU, 2DR. TIMOTHY NTE Department of Political and Administrative Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
Abstract: This study examined an analysis of terrorism in Libya (2011-2018). The study adopted the Structural functional theory by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba. The descriptive research design was adopted for this study. The data for the study was gotten through secondary sources and was analyzed using content analysis. Facts drawn from these sources were carefully examined in order to establish a logical trend from there, conclusions were drawn. The study found that Libya has asked the IMF for help for its tax evasion/countering the financing of terrorism administration, as Libyan administration did not pass new law and the enforcement of laws has strongly inhibited the efforts of the Libyan government. The study recommended among others; that terrorist financing offenses and exercises ought to be investigated and people who finance terrorism ought to be arraigned and exposed and sanctioned and there ought to be a superior perceivability and powerful commitment with public strategies and instruments by guaranteeing strong establishments that will head towards stopping terrorism. Keywords: collaboration, sanctions, finance, enforcement, strategy.
1. INTRODUCTION The expansion of terrorist groups like (Abu Salim Martyrs Brigade, Ajdabiya Revolutionaries Shura Council, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar al-Sharia) in Libya is moored in the settings of the 2011 uprising, which prompted the ouster of the Gaddafi administration sometime thereafter. The brutal crackdown of the Gaddafi administration on protestors prompted the rise of different terrorist groups and neighborhood committees on a city-by-city premise. Also, the Transitional National Council (TNC) was set up in February 2011 by individuals from the banished resistance and high-positioning turncoats, to go about as the tactical leadership of the uprising and the political agent of the Libyan resistance. While the TNC in the end acquired wide acknowledgment from the global community, it neglected to assemble close relations with nearby councils and terrorist groups driving the uprising (Lacher, 2013). All the more significantly, the TNC didn't prevail with regards to incapacitating these terrorist groups or incorporating them viably into the state security apparatus, which had essentially imploded after the fall of the Gaddafi administration. Because of a confused course of coordination, numerous terrorist groups were put on the payroll of the public authority however held a serious level of independence from the state. In August 2012, the TNC moved power to the recently chosen General National Council (GNC). However, none of the successive administrations that rose up out of the council figured out how to stop state financing for these furnished groups or manage them, and the numbers of contenders on the public authority payroll was documented to be about 200,000 toward the start of 2014 (Salah, 2015). Indeed, at that point numerous terrorist groups had reinforced their force, and some ideological groups and figures had adjusted themselves to certain terrorist organization. Accordingly, terrorist groups came to apply authority over crafted by the parliament and state establishments, consequently blocking the essential working of the public authority and placing the suitability of state establishments in hazard. This was proven on various events in 2013–2014, when terrorist groups aligned with different political groups raged the GNC and other government structures, requesting political concessions. Following the attack of the GNC, Misrata-based terrorist moved
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