Reconciliation in Libya? Libya tribe offers olive branch to Misrata

[tabatha]

February 24, 2012

Libya’s Tawarga tribe apologised to Misrata’s people for damage caused in the coastal city during last year’s war, according to a statement received by AFP on Friday.

“We the Tawarga tribes of Libya apologise to our brothers in Misrata for any action committed by any resident of Tawarga,” tribal elders said in a joint statement issued after a meeting in the eastern city of Bengazhi late Thursday.

The elders urged all of those accused of committing crimes, regardless of their tribal affiliation, to present themselves to judicial authorities to receive “punishment.”

More than 1,000 people attended the meeting, including senior officials of the ruling National Transitional Council, tribal elders, and displaced people from Tawarga now living in Benghazi. A senior official representing NTC chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at the meeting welcomed the gesture.

http://tweepforum.ly/news/libya-tribe-offers-olive-branch-to-misrata/

Oh noes, the Libyan detractors' heads are going to explode.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. I'd try to make nice with that murderous Misrata mob, too.

They seem like some of the scariest, most eager to kill and torture militias in the whole country.

[UnseenUndergrad]

2. Red Army Syndrome I suppose.

When your home has been shelled for months by a regime pledging your destruction, anger and viciousness in revenge is not unknown.