For many Libyans, the collective grief over the more than 11,000 dead has morphed into a rallying cry for national unity in a country blighted by 12 years of conflict and division.
The oil-rich country has been divided between rival administrations since 2014, with an internationally recognized government in Tripoli and a rival authority in the east, where Derna is located.
"The wound or pain of what happened in Derna hurt all the people from western Libya to southern Libya to eastern Libya,” he said.
Gen. Khalifa Hifter’s forces besieged Tripoli in a yearlong failed military campaign to try to capture the capital, killing thousands.
The Prime Minister of Libya’s Tripoli government, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, said he and his ministers were accountable for the dams' maintenance, but not the thousands of deaths caused by the flooding.
Persons:
— Zahra, Gerbi wasn't, “, ”, Gerbi, Moammar Gadhafi, Ali Khalifa, Mohamed, Derna, Khalifa Hifter’s, Claudia Gazzini, Ibrahim al, Noura, Sour, Abdul, Hamid Dbeibah, Aguila Saleh, ’ ”, Saleh, ___ Jeffery
Organizations:
Facebook, NATO, United Nations, Tobruk, Crisis
Locations:
TRIPOLI, Libya, — Zahra el, Libyan, Derna, Benghazi, Tripoli, Ali, Zawiya, London