On Sunday, Libyan officials confirmed the killing of Abdulrahman Miladalso known as Al-Bidja: a major in the Libyan coast guard and commander of the local naval academy, sanctioned in 2018 by the United Nations Security Council and the U.S. Treasury Department on charges of human trafficking.
In particular, he was killed, on Sunday, by unidentified armed men, while he was in his car in the Sayyad area of Tripoli, near the naval academy of Janzour. It was a real ambush.
According to Libya Review“over the years, Milad had expanded his criminal activities, turning the coastal city of Zawiya into a hub for both human trafficking and illegal oil exports.” Let us remember that Zawiya was the hometown of Bidja.
For the moment no organization seems to have claimed responsibility for the attack nor has what happened been officially commented on by the government led by the Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. To grieve the death of Milad was Moammar Dhawione of the leaders of the militias in the western part of Libya, who called for an investigation to arrest the perpetrators of the ambush. For his part, the president of the Libyan High Council of State, Khaled al-Mishriasked the Attorney General to shed light on Sunday’s events.
A few hours ago, Nova Agency reported that armed groups from Zawiya “blocked the coastal road that links Tripoli to western cities, up to Ras Jedir, on the border with Tunisia”. The same outlet also reported that armed convoys were spotted heading towards the site of the killing. Furthermore, according to Libya Observerprotests reportedly broke out in Zawiya itself.
