Does Zwara Oppose Zwara Free Trade Zone?
The Libyan site tawalt.com has published a copy of an “appeal for help” which opposes the creation of Zwara Free Trade Zone, on the grounds that the authority of the Development Zone, under its chairmanship of al-Saa’di al-Qaddafi, will confiscate land and farms from the local inhabitants of Zwara City. Such, small, opposition did, however, exist in Zwara and even justifiable on those aforementioned grounds. But according to other source the local people will be offered a choice of either to rent or sell their land. The Libyan principles of democracy, as overseen by the General People’s Committee, do not accommodate squatting, and in fact even the property of foreign investors within the zone is immuned to nationalisation, dispossession and confiscation as stated by the GPC’s law governing the Libyan free zones. If some decide to break the convention, then the Libyan people, who decide all the laws regarding anything including the free zones, will not approve it and will certainly rule
