Thread by @burweila

I believe it was not long ago we'd read shrill and deranged drivel on the threat of Madkhalis! in #Libya's east. Except these red herring merchants got the side completely wrong and appeared to have been projecting #Tripoli onto #Benghazi. No small feat.

https://twitter.com/TheNationalNews/status/1344357668589342726

A few months ago, #Libya's own fledgling franchise of the Taliban passed draconian measures against women in Tripoli-greeted with a heroic silence by Libyan self-styled feminists and human rights *activists based abroad. almarsad.co/en/2020/09/20/…

In the same month, AFRICOM revealed that #Turkey's Syrian mercenaries imported by the "GNA" to fight alongside the Islamist Tripoli-Misrata militia cartel (Fajr #Libya) were sexually abusing Libyan women: Also met with silence by otherwise vocal *activists

https://twitter.com/burweila/status/1335017901007527941

Now are they fearful or complicit? If they are fearful to speak up, it is yet another confirmation that the GNA junta persecutes Libyans. But if these ostensible "human rights activists" are silent for other reasons, it means they are charlatans who are complicit. Which is it?

Of course, one can argue co-opting the militia cartel they were mandated to dismantle and firing heavy weapons on protesting civilians is pretty much all the confirmation one needs: amnesty.org/en/latest/news…