Is Libya Cracking Up?

June 21, 2012

Nicolas Pelham

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Since the declared end of the civil war last October, the violence in Libya’s south is worse than it was during the struggle to oust Muammar Qaddafi. Hundreds have been killed, thousands injured, and, according to UN figures, tens of thousands displaced in ethnic feuding. Without its dictator to keep the lid on, the country, it seems, is boiling over the sides.

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