Chapter 301: Emergency Rescue
The conflict in Libya naturally has its deep-seated causes, and a strongman who has ruled the country for 42 years naturally has many people who oppose his high-pressure rule.
Libya is a tribal model of rule, and naturally there are differences between tribes, and Gaddafi supports his own family and tribes, and the cities occupied by other tribes will naturally develop slowly, which creates conflicts.
Coupled with the impetus behind some Western interest groups, it will naturally become what it is now, and the chaos in Libya is no longer immune. Although Gaddafi is still in power, it has been analyzed in China that Gaddafi is likely to be uncontrollable in this chaos, so he prepared such a large-scale evacuation operation at the beginning of the outbreak.
For this evacuation operation, the state used all the resources at its disposal, including renting passenger planes and ships from other countries, diverting Chinese passenger liners and freighters in nearby waters to the waters near Libya, organizing buses, organizing personnel to meet them in the areas where the overseas Chinese are located, and even sending a warship to escort them.
"At a construction site in Beneda, more than 200 employees of our construction company were robbed by rioters, dozens of thugs armed with rifles drove into the camp, and the workers fought back with sticks and stones, resulting in 11 injuries in the clashes, and finally had to withdraw from the camp to take refuge in the mountains, the property was looted, and the camp was burned. This group has already been taken to Egypt. ”
"At a construction site in Stihamri, rioters armed with assault rifles and earthen rifles rushed into the construction site, and the workers fought back with stones, eventually injuring four people. The group was taken to Tunisia. ”
"Tripoli, the capital of Libya. The headquarters of our China Railway Construction Company was robbed, 3 people were injured. Nineteen subordinate construction sites scattered throughout Libya were looted. The damage was incalculable, 11 casualties. ”
"In Zuwara, a 5,000-unit construction site of our Sinohydro Group was attacked and looted by a mob, and the workers resisted at that time, and the mob stormed three times, and now they are still deadlocked, and we have sent people over and will pick them up as soon as possible. As for the property damage, it will not be considered for the first time. ”
A deputy director stood in the corridor of the plane, holding a stack of materials and reading there, and then said in a heavy tone, "Comrades, the situation is critical, our destination this time is Tripoli, the capital of Libya, which is the concentration point of the conflict between supporters and oppositionists, the most dangerous place, but also the place where we have the largest number of Chinese expatriates. ”
"Got there. We don't have the support of the host country, everything is on our own, but those helpless expatriates are still waiting for our rescue, and our task is to get them out safely. He was put on an airplane and a ship, left Libya, and evacuated to Egypt and Greece to return home. Or just board the plane back home. ”
"You may have seen the news before you came, and a set of phone numbers appeared at the bottom of the news broadcast. It was the number of the Consular Protection Center, which received calls from home and abroad 24 hours a day. Relatives in China are crying on the phone, begging us to take their families back, so we are shouldering the expectations of the people of the whole country. ”
"When we arrive in Libya, the people in our cabin will also be separated and assigned to different points to pick up and send people, so many things need to be decided by your team leaders on the spot, and the team leaders must stand up, and they can't be soft in case of trouble, and everything is to rescue our expatriates as the first priority."
Muyang's eyes lit up when he heard this, this seems to be a little different from the style of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he knows, he usually feels that China is always looking ahead and backward when encountering things, and he can't make a decision, but now it seems that he is still on the surface, it seems that he will learn what he has in the future, some things, really encountered, and he can only say that it is true after experiencing it.
Is China really soft, not necessarily, it depends on when, where, what, what purpose, what need, Muyang has a new understanding of diplomatic work.
The plane finally landed on the land of Africa, and Muyang also set foot on this war-torn land for the first time.
There was no time to rest, and as soon as they came to the temporary command center outside the airport, there were many tasks waiting for them, and Muyang set off with a small team, preparing to enter the city of Tripoli and pick up a group of students out. An Arabic school in Tripoli where more than 40 Chinese students are learning Arabic.
The pick-up team consisted of only four staff members and two drivers, and the cars entered the city, gunshots could be heard from time to time, the streets were devoid of pedestrians, some cars were colliding together, smoke was rising in the distance, and a shop was on fire.
"This is the result of the war, Libya was originally the richest country in Africa, but with the war, it will go back 40 years, and I estimate that in the future, the lives of the people here will fall into the point of thinking about how to solve the problem of food and clothing." Team leader Zhang Changqiu, deputy director, said.
"Our investment in Libya has been lost, and this is a big loss." Wu Jinglin, a member of the group, said.
Another young team member, Zhang Chao, didn't speak, just kept looking at the chaotic neighborhoods, with a somewhat nervous look on his face, Mu Yang estimated that it was the first time he had experienced such a chaotic scene.
The car stopped at the gate of the college, but heard the sound of gunshots from the college, and everyone's hearts were tight, but they didn't see the door open for a long time, Zhang Changqiu said to the driver: "You wait for us at the door, let's go in and have a look, don't turn off the fire." ”
Zhang Changqiu got out of the car with four people, at this time there was no one guarding the gate, Muyang and they entered the school directly, this college is not big, it is probably the appearance of several buildings, and the gunfire came from one of the buildings.
"Building No. 4, isn't that the building that our Chinese students are talking about?" Wu Jinglin said.
"It's not good, the trainees may be in danger, let's hurry over." Zhang Changqiu took the lead in running over there, and the three of them followed.
At this time, the gunfire had stopped, and the four of them came downstairs to the dormitory, and found that there was a person guarding the door of the building with a gun.
The four of them were stunned, Zhang Changqiu said a few words in Arabic, and the bandit with the gun replied loudly, and then pointed the gun at the four people, obviously not wanting them to get close, Mu Yang thought to himself, he didn't know Arabic, and it was really inconvenient now.
"It's a mob of thugs, and they're robbing the trainees we've come to pick up." Zhang Changqiu said with a frosty face.
"Look what we're going to do." Wu Jinglin asked. (To be continued.) )