Just in from the Libya Herald, Security Guards Injured Trying to Evict Congress Occupiers. This combined with the attack on a Coptic church in Benghazi and tribal fighting in the Nafusa Mountains against the Mashashiyya and the situation in Libya does not look good right now. In fact, it looks like the GNC is doing anything and everything to not exercise its power and to appease its enemies. Quite a shame.
Three security personnel were injured in the early hours of this morning, one of them seriously, while trying to evict war-wounded revolutionaries who have been occupying the Congress headquarters for almost a month.The security forces said they did not retaliate when they realised the protestors had gelatina explosives and withdrew to avoid any further casualties.War-wounded revolutionaries and their supporters stormed the Congress building on 3 February. Most left later that day, but a small group staged a sit-in in the main debating chamber and have continued to occupy it. As a result, Congress members have since been forced to use other venues for their debates.The former revolutionaries, many of whom had to have limbs amputated as a result of their injuries, have made various demands, including that the government should pay for their treatment abroad. Congress last week passed a law giving a series of benefits to disabled revolutionaries. It has said that, as a result, all their demands have been met and that there is no justification for the continued sit-in.In light of today’s incident, Congress decided to postpone today’s session. It had planned to vote today on the government’s LD-66 billion budget.