{"id":2965,"date":"2018-12-28T18:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2018-12-28T18:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:57:37","slug":"report-on-internally-displaced-people-from-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/report-on-internally-displaced-people-from-benghazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on Internally Displaced People from Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Red Crescent Society &#8211; Libya (RCSLY) published a report<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a>, on 18<sup>th<\/sup> April 2015, on the numbers of IDP\u2019s in Libya. The report was the most detailed and comprehensive on numbers of IDP\u2019s in Libya, unfortunately CRSLY did not update the report since.<\/li>\n<li>The total number of IDP\u2019s, as of 1<sup>st<\/sup> April 2015, was 557\u2019212 persons (103\u2019821 families),<\/li>\n<li>Number of IDP&#8217;s from Benghazi, as of 1<sup>st<\/sup> April 2015,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 The report listed 40 locations (cities &amp; towns) which reported registered IDP\u2019s,<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Twelve (12) locations reported IDP\u2019s <strong>only from Benghazi<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>108\u2019830 IDP\u2019s in Benghazi from Benghazi<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> (21\u2019730 families),<\/li>\n<li>70\u2019633 IDP\u2019s in 11 locations from Benghazi (13\u2019406 families),<\/li>\n<li>Total of 179\u2019463 IDP\u2019s from Benghazi only were registered in 12 locations (35\u2019136 families),<\/li>\n<li>This is about 32% of the total IDP\u2019s reported by CRSLY on 1<sup>st<\/sup> April 2015,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Thirteen (13) locations reported IDP\u2019s from 2 or more locations including from Benghazi,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>278\u2019215 IDP\u2019s (50\u2019930 families),<\/li>\n<li>The report does not provide break down of sources of IDP\u2019s in locations which registered IDP\u2019s from several locations. Hence, Benghazi IDP\u2019s here need to be estimated,<\/li>\n<li>Of the 278\u2019215 IDP\u2019s, Benghazi IDP\u2019s are between:<\/li>\n<li>55\u2019643 persons (10\u2019186 families) assuming 20% were from Benghazi,<\/li>\n<li>83\u2019465 persons (15\u2019279 families) assuming 30% were from Benghazi,<\/li>\n<li>Total number of IDP\u2019s from Benghazi, on 1<sup>st<\/sup> April 2015, was 235\u2019106 ~ 262\u2019928 persons (45\u2019322 ~ 50\u2019415 families)<\/li>\n<li>The number could be higher, since some did not register as IDP\u2019s with any of the relief organizations, or government institutions, as they managed their own accommodation &amp; income.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the fact that fighting in many districts &amp; suburbs of Benghazi has come to an end, many IDP\u2019s still can\u2019t go back to their homes because:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 In some areas, the destruction to properties and infrastructure is extensive, especially the old town, Sabri district, Ganfuda &amp; Garyounis (south of Benghazi),<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Homes of IDP\u2019s have been either looted &amp; burned, or taken over by strangers. Pro Haftar militias have taken over homes of those they deemed enemies<a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a> and brought other families and settled them in these properties. Human Rights Solidarity (HRS) has documented, in 2015, over 350 individual cases of homes that were either looted &amp; destroyed, or taken over by strangers. Since then, the number of confiscated properties has increased. HRS is running a project to document such cases, to update the 2015 cases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a> Copy of the report is provided in \u201cLHRS PRS-105-02-18 Annex 002.pdf\u201d, attached to this report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> People moved to other neighborhoods within the Benghazi itself, away from conflict zones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[iii]<\/a> Even homes of people who were not involved in the war were targeted, simply because they were out of town. In one case, August 2017, the home (villa) of a judge from Benghazi was taken over by a family of one member of a pro Haftar militia, when he went to Tripoli to start work at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.refworld.org\/docid\/5b6abebf4.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Crescent Society &#8211; Libya (RCSLY) published a report[i], on 18th April 2015, on the numbers of IDP\u2019s in Libya. The report was the most detailed and comprehensive on numbers of IDP\u2019s in Libya, unfortunately CRSLY did not update the report since. The total number of IDP\u2019s, as of 1st April 2015, was 557\u2019212 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrsly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}