Nations withdraw staff and citizens from Libya as Tripoli clashes kill 38
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[quote]At least 38 people have been killed in clashes between troops loyal to the Libyan government and Islamist fighters in the city of Benghazi, officials say.
The militants attacked troops in the centre of the city, in eastern Libya.
A week of fighting in the capital Tripoli, near the airport, has left 97 people dead and 404 injured.
Militias controlling large parts of the country are behind Libya's worst violence since the 2011 uprising that toppled Col Muammar Gaddafi.
On Sunday, France and Germany joined the US and UK in advising their nationals in Libya to leave immediately.
On Saturday, the US evacuated its embassy in Tripoli, citing a "real risk" because of the fighting.[/quote]
Ignore me I basically quoted the article, sorry
There are extremely few cases of revolutions directly resulting in a good and democratic government. Usually the change is gradual, particularly in countries with earlier dictators or monarchs, like Britain or France. Let's hope the current government prevails and proves to be an exception to this rule.
[QUOTE=mac338;45516939]There are extremely few cases of revolutions directly resulting in a good and democratic government. Usually the change is gradual, particularly in countries with earlier dictators or monarchs, like Britain or France. Let's hope the current government prevails and proves to be an exception to this rule.[/QUOTE]
Britain's not a very good example, while they had many regime changes all but one of them were monarchies, and the one that wasn't was a dictatorship. Their gradual progression towards democracy was the result of whatever regime ruled at the time choosing to adapt to the changing world over getting overthrown.
Germany would be a better example, since the Wiemar Republic fell to a fascist regime that ended up getting the country divided among their former enemies, one of which was communist, before finally being reunited as a republic several decades later.
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