Who is really controlling Libya
We ask if the interim government can assert authority amid claims that rebels are torturing suspected Gaddafi loyalists.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2012/01/20121279497910159.html
The UN has painted a disturbing picture of the situation in Libya.
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"The NTC is not fully in control of the country and it has a lot to do with how the country was liberated and how these militias came to be. Until there is a central authority with all the necessary institutions to defend and secure the country in place, there are only limited things that the NTC will be able to do. There are some 150,000 Libyans under arms and as many as 300 militias in the country."
- Bill Lawrence, International Crisis Group
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Five months after the fall of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, the security situation is getting worse, not better.
Militias operating outside the control of the interim government - the National Transitional Council (NTC) - remain heavily armed and they continue to detain, and sometimes even torture, hundreds of prisoners suspected of being loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader.
Revolutionary forces were involved in recent fatal clashes in Tripoli, Bani Walid and Gharyan - in the west, and Benghazi in the east.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the international medical humanitarian organisation, has decided to suspend its operations in detention cent
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