Libyan Popular National Movement

The Libyan Popular National Movement (

Objectives

According to their first statement, their main goals are:

• Maintain the territorial integrity of Libya, the safety of its land, and security of its people.
• Working on the release of all prisoners without exceptions, including Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
• Treatment and compensation to all victims of war without exception.
• Create conditions and safeguard for the return of forcibly displaced people to their towns and villages.
• Building
  political
  belief.
• Restoring Libyan sovereignty, ending foreign interference and establishing an independent foreign policy.
• Rejecting policies of exclusion and
  marginalization
  , that differentiate between the components of the Libyan people.
• Dissolving armed militias, aiding former members to return to their previous jobs.
• Launching a reconstruction process of public and private properties destroyed during the war, without discrimination.
• Investigation of
  war crimes and crimes against humanity
  committed during the war, forming courts with public and international control standards to decide on those issues.
• Ensure the full participation of the Libyan citizens, exercising their right to political decision-making, to choose its leaders and the political system in the ways of democracy, under a constitution approved by the Libyan people, without any tutelage or exclusion.
• Put the Quran and the Sunnah as the reference of legislation in Libya, away from extremism and fanaticism.
• Urging the international and regional organizations,
  Security Council
  decisions.

The LPNM declared also their exclusive use of peaceful ways to accomplish their goals, but warned that the continuing repression, killings, torture, and forced displacement will lead to more violence and hatred, and that the LPNM components and its fighters are ready to engage in jihad and armed struggle for the defense of Libya and its citizens if necessary.^[4]

The group released another communique on 25 March, condemning the post-war "state of chaos" situation of Libya, the conviction of Libyan citizens in the hands of armed militias, considering their actions as "a flagrant violation of the principles of Sharia and Law", asking for

The party denied that the national minorities Amazigh, Toubou and Tuareg were subjected to discrimination under the rule of Gaddafi. In a Facebook post, party leader Mustafa al-Zaidi repeated the Arab nationalist notion that the Amazigh language would be a dialect. Regarding the ban on giving children Amazigh names during the Gaddafi era, he argued, that pagan, Christian and "weird" names were banned as well, including Arab names. In the same post, he strongly argued against Amazigh autonomy, arguing that Libya is a homeland for all.^[7] In another Facebook post, al-Zaidi called for burning all Toubou and Amazigh flags.^[8]

The party also called the

• List of Islamic political parties

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