
Leonie TimmersIn February 2011, the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ arrived in Libya. Numerous protests emerged against the Gadaffi-regime, which has been in power since 1969. Earlier upheavals in Algeria and Egypt finally let to the voluntary step-down of the governing elites, but the situation in Libya was different. Gadaffi did - and does still - not surrender to the protests, and has tackled them by resorting to armed violence against the population. [...]