Tawergha Foundation
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
We build this Actions & Results page today to track our actions and notify you of our results and we hope that you will take the opportunity to assist them or decide to support us in helping the families from Tawergha straight away.
Actions & Results
Email Awareness Campaign - 18 February 2018
Although an agreement was made by Misrata, Tawergha and the Libyan Government for the return, families from Tawergha are being barred and shot at by extremist militia members from the neighboring town Misrata.
The UN, UK, US, Italy and HRW all released statements in condemnation and urged all parties to guarantee the Tawergha community's right to return to their homes under safe and humane conditions.
We have started an email awareness campaign targetting all embasies world wide connected to Libya, all the Human Rights Groups, ICC and many more.
Send 6 more laptops to Tawergha IDP's - 16 May 2016
We have enrolled and send the six, seventh & eighth batch of Windows 7 Enterprise laptops including a full office suite and basic applications for the Youth for Tawergha organization.
The laptops are setup with an English and Arabic account including all updates and patches, Arabic language packs, virus scanner and some educational software like google earth etc. We have send them to our contacts in Tunesia who will ensure they are delivered to the boys and girls in the IDP camps.
Preparing a new batch of laptops - 09 April 2016
We have bought a new batch of second hand laptops for the Youth for Tawergha this week :)
The laptops are being setup with an English and Arabic account including all updates and patches, Arabic language packs, virus scanner and some educational software like google earth etc.
We will send them to our contacts in Tunesia who will ensure they are delivered to the boys and girls in the IDP camps.
Tawergha HVA Dairy & Poultry Project - 19 June 2015
We recieved a request from the Tawergha Local Council to assist them with obtaining information necessary for the rebuilding of the HVA Dairy & Poultry Project in Tawergha which was completely destroyed during NATO bombardments in 2011 and looted by Feb17 rebels from Misrata.
We contacted one of the main projectleaders who helped build the HVA project in the early eighties and he has forwarded the request to the HVA director. Due to the latest agreements between Misrata & Tawergha (assisted by the UN) we have high hopes for a solution.
Fifth batch of hardware is send - 12 April 2015
We have enrolled and send the ninth Windows 7 Enterprise laptop including a full office suite and basic applications for the Youth for Tawergha Organization Cyber Cube project and added a brand new beamer.
The laptops are setup with an English and Arabic account including all updates and patches, Arabic language packs, virus scanner and some educational software like google earth etc. We have send them to our contacts in Tunesia who will ensure they are delivered to the boys and girls in the IDP camps.
200 invitations for WSF 2015 are send - 23 March 2015
The World Social Forum 2015 will be held at campus El Manar, Faculty of Science in Tunis. (24 to 28 March).
Today we send nearly 200 personalized invitations to all the embassies in Tunisia and many important Human Rights groups or organizations to invite them to visit the Tawergha Mercy Association booth on the violations that are being committed in Libya against the people of Tawergha in support of their campaign for justice for the victims and to allow the displaced residents of the city of Tawergha to return to their homes safely.
We hope many people will attend and pay the Mercy Association booth a visit and wishing them a successful couple of days.
Fourth batch of laptops are send - 02 Feb 2015
We have enrolled and send the fourth batch of Windows 7 Enterprise laptops including a full office suite and basic applications for the Youth for Tawergha Organization Cyber Cube project.
The laptops are setup with an English and Arabic account including all updates and patches, Arabic language packs, virus scanner and some educational software like google earth etc. We have send them to our contacts in Tunesia who will ensure they are delivered to the boys and girls in the IDP camps.
Third batch of laptops are send - 02 Jan 2015
We have enrolled and send the third batch of Windows 7 Enterprise laptops including a full office suite and basic applications for the Youth for Tawergha Organization Cyber Cube project.
The laptops are setup with an English and Arabic account including all updates and patches, Arabic language packs, virus scanner and some educational software like google earth etc. We have send them to our contacts in Tunesia who will ensure they are delivered to the boys and girls in the IDP camps.
Second batch of laptops are send - 19 Nov 2014
We have enrolled and send the second batch of Windows 7 Enterprise laptops including a full office suite and basic applications for the Youth for Tawergha org. Cyber Cube project.
The laptops are setup with an English and Arabic account including all updates and patches, Arabic language packs, virus scanner and some educational software like google earth etc. We have send them to our contacts in Tunesia who will ensure they are delivered to the boys and girls in the IDP camps.
First batch of laptops are send - 25 Oct 2014
We have enrolled and send the first batch of Windows 7 Enterprise laptops including a full office suite and basic applications for the Youth for Tawergha org. Cyber Cube project.
The laptops are setup with an English and Arabic account including all updates and patches, Arabic language packs, virus scanner and some educational software like google earth etc. We have send them to our contacts in Tunesia who will ensure they are delivered to the boys and girls in the IDP camps.
Donations for Tawergha IDP's - 25 Oct 2014
Due to the ongoing prosecution of families from Tawergha hunted by the Misrata militias, we are forced to hand over all donations directly to the IDP's instead of spending them on projects (like the Cyber Cube project) for the Youth for Tawergha.
IDP's from Tawergha in Tripoli where evicted and those who stayed behind where shot or kidnapped. IDP camps in Tripoli and Benghazi where bombed and shot at and many personal belongings where destroyed by fire.
Action for hunted IDP's and Activists - 7 Oct 2014
Thousands of families from Tawergha are being hunted again by militias from Misrata (who took control of Tripoli last month) which forced the IDP's to flee to Tunesia.
Last week we received a desperate request for help from the Youth for Tawergha Organization and the Mercy Foundation asking for financial support.
Please read their letter and support them.
IDP action & campaign pictures - 15 Sept 2014
To enable you to participate on twitter and facebook we created the Tawergha IDP picture gallery.
You may choose your favourite pic and post it on multimedia. Don't forget to tag it with one (or more) of the following: #Tawergha #IDP #Libya #Misrata
Should you have any pictures we haven't added to the slideshow and you would like to share those with all of us, please send them to: netherlands@tawergha.org
Tawergha Foundation Sitrep on re displacement, kidnapping and murder - 30 Aug 2014
Militias from Misrata attacked the camp of displaced people from Tawergha in Tripoli, Al-Falah area.
The random shooting of people in the camp led to the injury of three Tawerghans. Five Tawerghans where kidnapped from the camp of which one was executed and four others where later released.
We published a sitrep on the crimes against humanity.
European Parliament will spent €2.4 million on Tawergha this year after our petition - 07 May 2014
After updating the pre-written letters email campaign we of course kicked off the new petition ourselves to test if the scripts still work and one of the people who replied was Jacqueline Foster (MEP England):
“…More recently, in response to a petition submitted to the European Parliament, the European External Action Service has confirmed that €2.4 million will be spent from this year to assist internally displaced people in Libya and a copy of that response is attached for your information…”
Tawergha Road Sign Action - Amnesty International
Please assist Amnesty International with this Tawergha Road Sign Action. Print the signs, create a picture holding them and send those pics to Amnesty.
Amnesty will compile an album of all the pictures showing activists holding the new road signs to Tawargha and will deliver the album to the Misratah City Council accompanied by media coverage in Libya.
The Tawergha Road Signs symbolise the way back home for the people of Tawargha.
Amnesty International Arnhem Group meeting
Amnesty International Arnhem group visited our HQ today and we discussed the Tawergha case and actions to assist them.
Amnesty Arnhem will contact the Dutch Amnesty HQ for assistance and resources and will ask for the UK Amnesty group contact information who have taken the lead in the battle for freedom and justice in support of the families from Tawergha.
After a vivid online discussion we registered www.misrata.org to host the Misrata Business Portal which will assist you in choosing the right company for your business or guide you in your purchases from Misrata, free of charge.
The website will provide a list of all the companies and products from Misrata & will notify you which companies from Misrata do not support or endorse the crimes against humanity & will also provide information about the current status of the Misrata Tawergha reconciliation efforts and results.
Amnesty International meeting on the Tawergha case
We met with Anita Witlox today who is the Dutch Amnesty International representative for Algeria, Morocco, Tunesia and Libya to discuss the current status, actions and affairs on the Tawergha case.
Amnesty has written excellent reports on the forced displacement, ill treatment, torture and murder of the families from Tawergha and has two actions planned in the coming months. We have discussed options to cooperate and we are thankful for the tips and advice we recieved.
First 20 FT Cyber Cube (2 be) arrived today
The first future Cyber Cube arrived as a 20 FT shipping container at the premises of the PC en Werk Stichting in Nieuwleusen today (NL).
The next couple of weeks will be spent on refurbishing the interior and transforming half of the container as a serverroom for the educational platform & the other half will be rebuild as a engineering area / office for maintenance and deployment tasks.
Tawergha Arabic Youtube Channel (80 movies)
The Youth for Tawergha Organization webmaster has collected 80 Arabic movies on the Tawergha Youtube channel the last couple of years.
Last week we have created dedicated media pages to display all those youtube movies on the www.tawergha.net website.
The links to the 8 media pages are posted on the Tawergha twitter account which is followed by nearly a thousand Libyan tweeps so that's another major contribution to the ongoing awareness campaign.
This week the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker Stiftung has released their latest report on Tawergha in support of their campaign to help the internally displaced persons in Libya.
We were very happy to have been of assistance to the GFBV Stiftung to supply information and pictures for their report and we hope it contributes to more awareness and aid for now and paves the road to a solution in the long term.
The displacement of civilians from Tawergha in the period from August 2011 to April 2014 appears to meet the elements of deportation or forcible transfer of the civilian population as a crime against humanity under Article 7(1)(d) and as a war crime under Article 8(2)(e)(viii) of the Rome Statute. [ICC]
The Tawergha Foundation has provided the ICC with an extensive report based on dozens of official documents and information provided by the victims of ethniccleansing, torture and murder from Tawergha. The ICC has added the report to the file.
Petition to end the torture & ethnic cleansing
For six hours every single minute a Dutch IT company or professional signed the petition form to stop the torture & end the ethnic cleansing of families from Tawergha.
We have added the hundreds of signatures into one pdf file which we will send to the NTC, GNC and the Misrata Local Council members by e-mail and ask them to end the Human Rights Violations and Crimes against Humanity right away.
It's been three years, enough is enough!
ICT Vakdag exhibition stand 4 Tawergha
The ICT Vakdag 2014 exhibition was a huge success and hundreds of Dutch IT specialists & companies signed the petition to stop the torture and end the ethnic cleansing of families from Tawergha today.
They loved the #CyberCubes project for the educational platform 4 the Tawergha IDP camps and we received many invitations to pick up hardware.
We will offer the signatures of support for the refugees in the Libyan IDP camps to the GNC, NTC & Misrata Local Council members this week.
Awareness campaign promo movie (Dutch)
ICTWaarborg has reserved us a Lounge @ the Dutch ICTVakdag exhibition tomorrow (2014-05-12) in the JaarBeurs in Utrecht.
Today we created the Dutch promo movie to show at the stand promoting the #CyberCubes Project 4 the educational program for the You(th) for Tawergha.
It's probably not the greatest movie ever made and if you don't understand Dutch then there is no point watching it at all but we made the effort and hope that counts for receiving the support from the thousands of companies at the exhibition.
Tawergha Foundation Cyber Cubes Project
The educational program for the youth for Tawergha organization was in need of a powerful, mobile, rubust & redundantly available server storage solution.
We have set up a joined venture with the Dutch PC & Work Foundation to build the Cyber Cubes at their facility.
The project resources and arrangements are well on the way & we expect to deliver the first Cyber Cube within a couple of months.
Libyan Heroes for Tawergha Page
Some of our Libyan followers on the Tawergha Foundation Twitter Page made us aware of the fact that we have a tendency to focus on the negative & horrible actions some of the Libyans have committed against the families from Tawergha.
To compensate and rectify the view we might create depicting all Libyans as ethnic cleansers or torturers we have created the Libyan Heroes for Tawergha page as there are a lot of remarkable and kind hearted people from Libya out there.
Please send your Libyan Heroes for Tawergha information to: heroes@tawergha.org so we can add them to the page. We know that most of them help from their heart and not for the attention but we think it is a nice thing to put some sunlight on them and it shows the world there are a lot of Libyans out there not agreeing with and supporting the villains & warcriminals.
Tawergha Foundation promotional products
We have been invited to the ICT Vakbeurs (by ICT Waarborg) on the 12th of May which is one of the biggest IT exhibitions in the Netherlands.
We will promote the Tawergha Foundation educational platform for the youth for Tawergha organization and ask for donations and hardware.
Today we designed and ordered the promotional products (T-shirts, flyers, posters and contact cards) for the exhibition.
RTL news item on Tawergha support
Last month we arranged the meeting for the RTL news crew in the Tawergha IDP camp in Tripoli.
They were given a warm welcome and a guide through the camp multiple times.
We are glad the Dutch News agencies have not forgotten about the 40.000 internally displaced persons from Tawergha and decided to show the Netherlands what the new regime in Libya is about.
Tawergha iRead campaign support
The last couple of months we had the pleasure to assist a very special lady in Libya who set up a educational campaign for the women in the Tawergha IDP camps in Benghazi.
Amna Salak has written a report for her iRead project based on an extensive survey and she will present the results and her recommendations to the Libyan Government.
Latest Campaign News
We have posted the current results for the running campaigns below.
Friends for Tawergha campaign
Last week we added more then 50 New Friends for Tawergha to the Special Thank You Page!
The e-mail messages, scripts and mailing lists are ready to go so give it a try and let us know if we should change anything at all.
The Avaaz For Tawergha Campaign is up and running. It's quick, easy and sends a crystal clear message.
Spare them your old laptop and we'll collect it, flush the drives and enroll them with a new OS and educational software for the Tawergha Youth Development Program.
We have set up a joined venture with the Dutch PC & Work Foundation to build the Cyber Cubes. 20FT shipping containers are rebuild as serverrooms for the IDP camps to host the educational platform.
We have created a Special Thank You Page for all those people and organizations who provided this foundation the means and resources to help the Youth from Tawergha.
SNEW meeting on Tawergha Cyber Cubes Project
Today we had a meeting with the 1WE SNEW team to arrange the Cyber Cubes for the Tawergha IDP camps. We discussed the opertunity to convert shipping containers into mobile IT learning workshops & internet cafes.
New Libya Foundation workshop: Constitution
Today the Youth for Tawergha joined the New Libya Foundation workshop which brought together the Tripoli representatives of the Constitutional Assembly to share their vision of how the constitution making process can promote peace and stability in Libya.
The program included an opportunity to dialogue with the Assembly members, followed by a reception where members from the civil society, business, international organization, government and diplomatic community could continue the dialogue on the most critical issues of the transition.
The Networker is an event designed to advance the causes of Libyan civil society through cross-sector partnership on critical issues.
European Parliament discusses Tawergha case
We have send thousands of emails the last couple of months and one of the many people who responded to them was Sir Graham Watson from the European Parliament.
He promised us he would certainly raise the Tawerghans’ situation with EU officials and soon after that Sir Graham Watson applied a question for a written answer to the EU Parliament.
We are looking forward to the response and are hopeful this action will amount to a solution.
Tawergha Foundation donation for diapers
Today the first Tawergha Foundation donations are spend on diapers in the IDP camps in Tripoli.
Mr. Ali Noah & his colleague from the Merci Foundation arranged the logistics and the distribution in the camps and we are very thankful for their assistance.
Next month we will try to arrange a second contribution for the IDP camps in Benghazi so please help us by making a small donation to the Tawergha Foundation: Go to the donation page
Hardware campaign for the Youth 4 Tawergha
We send 600 emails to our Dutch IT linkedin contacts requesting for secondhand hardware for the cyber cubes project in the Tawergha IDP camps.
Many Dutch IT companies & professionals responded and we have been driving through the Netherlands to pick up all the desktops, laptops, thinclients, monitors, servers, sans and other hardware.
We are very thankful for all the help we received and the next couple of weeks will be used to clean an re-enroll all the pc's for the educational program.
We have meetings with multiple partners to create the IT classrooms & internet cafe's and we will post updates within the next couple of days.
Canadian Ambassador meets Youth for Tawergha
Today the Canadian Ambassador Denis Thibault met with representatives of the Youth for Tawergha organization to discuss the situation of the Tawargha people and receive the Tawergha Foundation report.
Mr. Thibault has assured us that the need to develop solutions for the Tawergha issue is stressed in every meeting with the Libyan government.
He has provided the contact information for human rights organizations operating in Canada and the Canadian ambassy will reserve budget to support the Tawergha civil society organizations.
The ethnic cleansing, ill treatment, torturing and murdering of Tawerghans has been unopposed and unchallenged by the Libyan Government, Justice department, army or international community.
We are fed up with those fake #Feb17 revolutionaries taking part in the persecution of innocent families.
So beware you murderer, torturer or hypocrite, we
are not only telling your mum but even your grandkids will be reminded what their DNA donor was all about.
Please send your perpetrator info to: wanted@tawergha.org
ICC acknowledges receipt of our first official report
After another round of following up on our awareness email campaign, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court acknowledges receipt of our first official report on the Tawergha issue.
The very first press conference on the ICC’s investigation into alleged crimes in Libya, former Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo warned rebel factions that “if opposition groups commit crimes, their leaders will also be investigated.”
In her statement, Bensouda specifically mentioned Tawergha, a town outside of Misrata.
Tawergha refugee status and hearing
A family from Tawergha seeking asylum contacted us this week asking for our assistance in obtaining enough information for their lawyer in support of the asylum request.
We delivered all the required information to make sure their request would have to be honoured and we will do the same for anyone from Tawergha in the same situation so we recommend the ethnic cleansing is reversed as soon as possible or else all 40.000 refugees might come your way.
ANBI registration Tawergha Foundation
The Dutch Tax Authorities awarded the Tawergha Foundation the ANBI status today.
The Dutch Tax Administration can designate an institution to be an "Public Benefit Organisation"
At least 90% of the efforts of an ANBI has to be focused on the general good. And since 2012 the 'culturele ANBI' can profit (until at least 2018) from even more Dutch tax advantages.
If in a calendar year the sum of someone's gifts to ANBIs exceeds 1% of the Dutch threshold income, the excess, with a maximum of 10% of that income, is deductible income.
Gesellschaft fur bedrohte volker collaboration
The last couple of weeks we have been working with the 'Gesellschaft fur bedrohte volker' organization and they have written their second report on the Tawergha issue.
Within a couple of weeks they will follow up with their awareness campaign targeting important and influencial people in the German and Italian government for instance.
We will keep you informed as soon as their awareness campaign is triggered.
Your active support for Tawergha page
We finished the active support options page for Tawergha so if you are wondering how you can make a contribution and help them out, please check out this page as we have provided a couple of easy and quick means to accomplish your goal.
Examples:
Stop the ethnic cleansing and torture campaign
Avaaz petition to stop the crimes against humanity
Tech Soup registration Tawergha Foundation
We received our TechSoup registration today which enables us to provide the software for our educational goals for the youth for Tawergha.
TechSoup was founded in 1987 on the belief that technology is a powerful enabler for social change. Since then, we’ve assembled a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that share this conviction. This network—one that you likely belong to—is working together to develop and share innovative solutions to our most urgent social challenges.
Tawergha Foundation report on reconciliation
On this special day for Libya we are proud to publish the first official Tawergha Foundation report on the status of the reconciliation process between Misrata and Tawergha.
We have send the report to nearly one thousand organizations, foundations, embassies, political parties, governments and important people with the influence to make a difference for the people from Tawergha.
We have also written a summary report for those of you who would like to read the quick facts and numbers.
E-mail campaign targeting 11.500 businesses
This week we send the first batch containing 2000 email messages written for Arabic businesses asking for their support and making them aware about the ethnic cleansing, ill treatment, torture and murdering of the families from Tawergha.
We will send our message to 11.500 Arabic businesses in North Africa and the Middle East the next couple of weeks.
Please spare us your small change so we can continue our projects in support of the youth for Tawergha. The founders pay for this foundation and website so 100% of your donations are used in active support of the families from Tawergha.
Tawergha Foundation on Twitter
Today we created the Tawergha Foundation Twitter account in support of the Awareness campaign.
Please follow us to show your support and follow the latest news and campaign information to assist the youth for Tawergha with their goals.
NTC - GNC - Misrata Local Council member mailing
We've received many reactions on the awareness email campaign and one of those was Mr. Mohamed Benrasali who is one of the NTC members from Misrata and replied for a couple of people we wrote.
Although Mr. Benrasali does agree that keeping 40.000 people from a ethnic minority on display in IDP camps for years is not the way you should treat your fellow Libyans in the New Libya he ended up with justifying the ethnic cleansing and collective punishment of Tawerghans with his final remark on the crimes against humanity committed by Misrata:
"..some of those people are criminals (not all of them) and they refusing to hand them over.."
Mr. Benrasali couldn't appreciate the logic of our reply asking him how he would think about this kind of justice if it was his own family being locked up for crimes committed by someone from Misrata. By his crooked standards the whole of Libya could be locked up in IDP camps for not handing over certain criminal individuals to the ICC and by endorsing the ethnic cleansing on Tawergha there is a possibility that one day he and his fellow NTC, GNC and Local Council members will have to stand trial for their participation in the crimes against humanity.
Website for the Youth for Tawergha organization
Today we build a website for the Youth for Tawergha organization to broaden their online presence and endorse the fabulous facebook page.
Please check it out and hit the share and like button to show them your support and help them get their cry for help heard in the world.
You can also check out their facebook page which at the time of writing has nearly 5000 likes already so don't be shy to add yours :)
From today on the bank and Pay Pal account is ready to receive your donations for the people from Tawergha.
We (the founding members of this Foundation) pay for all expenses for this Foundation and website so you can be sure 100% of all your donations go directly to the refugees and victims from Tawergha.
Thank you very much for your contribution!
Stop the Ethnic Cleansing & Torture campaign
The stop the ethnic cleansing and torture email campaign scripts and templates are written and active, ready for you to give us a hand.
All you have to do is choose who you would like to send a pre-written letter (UN, Political Parties, Embassies, Misrata Local Council or Businesses, News Agencies, Libyan Government, etc.), add your name and hit the send button to keep the pressure on those people with the power to make a change to stop the Ethnic Cleansing and Torture of families from Tawergha.
Today we added the first entries to the Tawergha Destruction Database.
Misrata militia destoyed the town after the ethnic cleansing of the families from Tawergha
A total of 1,690 damage sites were identified from satellite analysis between July 28, 2011 and August 18, 2012.
Over 92% of all identified damages resulted from arson attacks, with the remainder of damages probably caused by controlled demolition with explosives, air strikes and the remainder by artillery fire.
Tawergha Foundation Official Registration
The notary office has officially registrated our organization as the Tawergha Foundation.
Founding members are:
- Marloes van de Pol
- Jeroen Spaander
- Olga Roffel
Tawergha Torture Victims Database
Today we started to create the first entries in the Tawergha Torture Victims Database.
Misrata imprisoned and tortured 1.300 men, many of whom were bruttaly slaughtered. The remaining prisoners who survived, fear servere torture or being killed on a daily basis.
We cannot tolerate the awful deads of aggresion against Tawerghans as young as 15 years old. The hypocrisy of the perpetrators posing as #Feb17 freedom fighters is beyond our grasp.
Today we created the Avaaz campaing for Tawergha Please support them with your vote to ask the United Nations and the Libyan Government to allow them to go home.
http://tawergha.org/home/support.html
Enough is enough.
Let them go home.
Thank you for helping Tawergha Page
Today we created the Special Thank You for helping Tawergha page as we are receiving more and more support and we think it's a nice gesture to thank those people.
The page also serves as a reminder to the people from Tawergha that they are not forgotten or alone.
We have also added a Friends for Tawergha section on the page for all those people in support of the families from Tawergha. Thanks again guys :)
Building a network and finding opportunities
The last couple of weeks we wrote emails to numerous organizations, foundations, embassies, political parties, governments and important people who could be of assistance to our cause or could provide us with information.
We received a contactpoint for our training program from UNSMIL, discussed opportunities with the New Libya Foundation and received a lot of tips and advice.
Our network with people from Tawergha living in the IDP camps and abroad has grown and we now have a solid base to build our organization from.
Youth organization for Tawergha
So what can we do to help and where should we start? We found the Youth for Tawergha organization online at www.tawergha.com and with the google chrome translation function we read up on their goals to assist the youth from Tawergha.
We decided we found a perfect match and contacted them to ask if we could assist them with:
- Advancing the return to Tawergha
- Creating awareness about their fate
- Development of the youth of Tawergha
- Employment options for the youth for Tawergha
- Obtaining justice for the victims from Tawergha
Tawergha Foundation on Facebook
Today we created the Tawergha Foundation on facebook page in support of the Awareness campaign.
We will post news items, reports and our succes (or failure) posts on a regular basis so please Add us to show your support and follow up on the progress.
Official Reports on #Feb17 and Tawergha
During our quest for information we where amazed how many organization & country reports on the Tawergha issue existed.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UNSMIL, the ICC, IRIN, CFC, ILAC, RefWorld and many more have been writing extensive official reports for years.
We have collected and stored all the official reports in chronological order.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Chronological News Items on #Feb17 and Tawergha
In 2011 revolutionairy rebels rose up against Gaddafi and his troops and soon many parts of Libya took part in the uprising. The UN had to step in to assist the freedom fighters as they where heavily outgunned. Even with NATO's support the fighting went on & on.
At the end of 2011 our father died and it took us
months to put our minds to anything else. As a result we missed the ethnic cleansing & genocide on the families of Tawergha in the news.
We started with building a chronological news items database on the events which ended in the ethnic cleansing, genocide, torture and other inhuman treatment of the families from Tawergha.
Tawergha Foundation website goes live
After being send a facebook message pointing out the satellite images on google earth depicting our formal homes in Tawergha having been destroyed we found the first reports about the ethnic cleansing of the families from Tawergha.
As soon as the horror and disbelieve somewhat settled down we decided it was time we build this website in assistance of the surviving refugees.
We hope our effort will contribute to their return and well being. Should you have some time or small change to spare, please give us a hand.
Find out how you can help today:
- Join us on Twitter to show your support
- Click the 'Send' button for the 'Let them go home' campaign
- Share this website on Facebook to support them
- Add your voice to the Avaaz online campaign
- Donate your old laptop for educational purposes
- Help them by donating a small amount