On 5 February, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published an article by senior fellow Frederic Wehrey and Professor Mieczysław P. Boduszyński, titled ‘What Syrians Can Learn From Libya’s Revolution’. The article looks at the ‘missteps’ that followed the fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi and the lessons they offer on the impact of early policy choices. The first of the two ‘fateful mistakes’, the authors argue, is how the Libyans became ‘obsessed’ with punishing anyone associated with the Qadhafi regime. The second, they add, is that the Libyan government bolstered the country’s ‘predatory and unaccountable militias’.
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