الرئيسية
* Tawargha residents suffered reprisals for backing Gaddafi
* Townspeople say will try to return home next week
* Aid workers, pro-Gaddafi neighbours say return is risky
(Adds aid worker in paragraphs 11-13)
TRIPOLI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Thousands of former supporters
of Muammar Gaddafi who fled their town after revenge attacks
will try to return next week, their leaders said on Wednesday,
risking a confrontation with their neighbours.
Tawargha, a town about 250 km east of Tripoli, was ransacked
and looted, and its residents forced to flee, in one of the
worst cases of reprisals against Gaddafi loyalists since the
Libyan leader was overthrown three months ago.
Elders from the town decided at a meeting in Tripoli that
all the residents -- who they said number 30,000 and are
scattered in camps and makeshift accommodation across Libya --
will go home on Dec. 20.
* Townspeople say will try to return home next week
* Aid workers, pro-Gaddafi neighbours say return is risky
(Adds aid worker in paragraphs 11-13)
TRIPOLI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Thousands of former supporters
of Muammar Gaddafi who fled their town after revenge attacks
will try to return next week, their leaders said on Wednesday,
risking a confrontation with their neighbours.
Tawargha, a town about 250 km east of Tripoli, was ransacked
and looted, and its residents forced to flee, in one of the
worst cases of reprisals against Gaddafi loyalists since the
Libyan leader was overthrown three months ago.
Elders from the town decided at a meeting in Tripoli that
all the residents -- who they said number 30,000 and are
scattered in camps and makeshift accommodation across Libya --
will go home on Dec. 20.