The Arab Spring brought a sense of pride and hope to North Africa, especially in Tripoli, where celebrations in the newly renamed Martyrs’ Square drew thousands, their singing punctuated by celebratory bursts of machine-gun fire. But the turmoil that began in Tunisia and Libya last spring has sent about a million people fleeing across borders and a flotilla of boats headed toward Lampedusa — the closest European shore. While there have been many high-minded justifications that led to Europe’s military intervention in Libya, there has been little political willingness to shoulder the humanitarian consequences of the war.
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