Saharan Amazighs in Libya face administrative discrimination that perpetuates exclusion and regionalism. They are administratively classified with special numbers, relegating them to a status akin to foreigners within their own country. In Libya, every citizen is supposed to have a single national number, but the administrative numbers granted to Saharan Amazighs are not officially recognized, restricting their rights within various institutions.
This discrimination is not limited to civilians; it also extends to the Libyan army, most of whose personnel carry administrative numbers instead of national numbers, rendering their legal status unclear, despite their participation in defending the country. Even the former headquarters of the Brara and Tomas channels, which were the voice of Amazigh media, has been converted into a military headquarters used by Saharan Amazighs transferred from Ubari to Tripoli, a clear indication of their exploitation within the military establishment without equal rights.
This reality reflects a systematic exclusion that keeps the Saharan Amazighs in Libya in a state of deficient citizenship, where they are treated as seventh-class foreigners despite their inherent affiliation with this land. The continuation of these policies underscores the need for an ongoing struggle for full recognition of the rights of the Saharan Amazighs and ensuring their equality with other Libyan citizens.
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND TUAREG FAMILIES HOLD TEMPORARY REGISTRATION RECORDS.
Some of them have been in Libya for over sixty, fifty, forty, and even thirty years, and they are still stuck at the “temporary” station, as if time had frozen in an endless wait for an identity that never comes. Every day, they turn a new page in an endless tragedy, written in the ink of suffering, until they become an integral part of it, never having the opportunity to rewrite it. These people registered in a temporary record do not even have an official classification by the state. Therefore, these classifications are not 100% accurate.
All the excuses Libyan officials used to obstruct this matter are now a thing of the past. Yet they arrogantly persist in keeping this matter suspended between heaven and earth, as if they were masters of destiny, granting rights to whomever they wish and denying them to others. But in their blind pride, they have forgotten that the invocation of the oppressed is an arrow that never misses its target, a bullet that cannot be stopped.
Today, they find themselves facing a dramatic scenario they had not anticipated: in their boundless arrogance, the gates of Gog and Magog are opening before them.
They find themselves forced—or will be forced—to settle millions of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries with no linguistic, cultural, or religious ties to them. At the same time, they are compelled to spend millions of dinars to combat illegal immigration, as if destiny were pushing them toward an inevitable confrontation, demonstrating their powerlessness in the face of the greatness of divine justice.
These migrants arrive from all sides, gaining everything and imposing themselves as an inevitable reality, while those who belong to this land by their soul, their history, and their identity, those who have made immense sacrifices for it, remain excluded from the calculations of power.
It is as if the hand of fate places them before the mirror of divine justice, forcing them to taste the same bitter cup they made their own compatriots drink. The injustice they have perpetrated turns against them in an even more severe form, imposing on them what they refused to grant to their own people. For as the days pass, the divine scales never tip, and what is denied today could be imposed tomorrow… It is the implacable law of life that spares no one.
Azawad Freedom Voice
17-03-25
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