Chapter 301: Emergency Rescue
The conflict in Libya naturally has its deep-seated reasons. A strong man who has ruled the country for 42 years naturally has many people opposed his high-pressure rule.
Libya is a tribal domination model, and there are naturally differences between tribes. Gaddafi supports his own family and tribe, and the cities occupied by other tribes will naturally develop slowly, which leads to conflicts.
Coupled with the push behind some Western interest groups, it will naturally become like this, and the chaos in Libya is no longer spared. Although Gaddafi is still on the stage, it has been analyzed in China that Gaddafi may not be able to control this chaos, so he prepared such a large-scale evacuation operation at the beginning of the incident.
For this evacuation operation, the country used all resources that could be used, including renting passenger planes and ships from other countries, allowing Chinese passenger ships and cargo ships in nearby waters to transfer to the waters near Libya, organize buses, organize personnel to enter the areas where the expatriates are located to greet them, and even dispatch a warship to escort them.
"A construction site in Beneda City, more than 200 employees of our construction company were robbed by thugs. Dozens of thugs drove into the camp with rifles. The workers fought back with wooden sticks and stones. During the conflict, 11 of us were injured. In the end, they had to withdraw from the camp and hide in the mountains. All the property was robbed and the camp was burned. These people have been taken to Egypt."
"At a construction site in Stihamri, the thug rushed into the construction site with chargers and earthen rifles. The workers fought back with stones, causing four people to be injured. In order not to cause greater casualties, they evacuated the construction site and hid in the wild for a while. The group of people were taken to Tunisia."
"The headquarters of our China Railway Construction Company was robbed and three people were injured. There were 19 construction sites distributed throughout Libya, and many of them were robbed. The losses were unestimated, with 11 casualties."
"In Zuvala, our China Hydropower Group has a construction site with 5,000 residential buildings, which was attacked and robbed by thugs. The workers resisted at that time, and the thugs were hit three times. They are still in a stalemate. We have sent people to take them out as soon as possible. As for property losses, we will not consider it."
A deputy director stood in the corridor of the plane, reading a pile of information there, and then said in a heavy tone, "Comrades, the situation is very critical. Our destination this time is Tripoli, the capital of Libya. It is the concentration point of conflict between supporters and opposition parties. It is the most dangerous place, but also the place with the largest number of Chinese expatriates."
"When we get there, we don't have the support of our country, we have to rely on ourselves, but those helpless expatriates are still waiting for our rescue. Our mission is to take them out safely. Send them onto a plane and ship, leave Libya, evacuate to Egypt, and return to Greece. Or board the return plane directly."
"Before you came, you may have read the news, and a set of phone numbers appeared below the news broadcast. It was the phone number from the Consular Protection Center, which answered calls from both domestic and foreign countries 24 hours a day. Domestic relatives cried on the phone, asking us to pick up their families, so we shoulder the expectations of the people of the whole country."
"When we arrive in Libya, the people in our cabin will be separated and sent to different points to pick up and send people. Therefore, many things need your team leader to make decisions on the spot. All team leaders must stand up and not be soft when encountering problems. Everything is to save our expatriates as the top priority."
Mu Yang's eyes lit up when he heard this. It seemed to be somewhat different from the style of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that he knew. He usually felt that China always looked forward to things and could not make decisions. But now it seems that he is still on the surface. It seems that he will learn some things in the future and encounter them. Only after experiencing them can he say that they are true.
Is China really soft? It may not be possible. It depends on when, where, what purpose, and what needs. Muyang has a new understanding of diplomatic work.
The plane finally landed on the African land, and Muyang also set foot on this war-torn land for the first time.
There was no rest time, and as soon as I arrived at the temporary command center outside the airport, there were many tasks waiting for them. Muyang followed a team to set out and prepare to enter the city of Tripoli and pick up a group of students. At an Arabic school in Tripoli, more than 40 Chinese students were learning Arabic here.
The team that picked up people was only four staff members and two drivers. When the car entered the city, gunshots could be heard from time to time. There were no pedestrians on the street. Some cars collided together, and smoke was still emitting from a distance. A shop was burning and catching fire.
"This is the result of the war. Libya was originally the richest country in Africa, but when the war broke out, it will be directly reversed forty years. I guess the lives of the people here will fall to the point of considering how to solve the problem of food and clothing," said Deputy Director Zhang Changqiu, the team leader.
"Our investment in Libya has been wasted, and the loss is really great now." said Section Chief Wu Jinglin, a member of the group.
Another young team member, Zhang Chao, didn't say anything, but kept looking at the chaotic neighborhoods with a look of nervousness on his face. Mu Yang probably was the first time he had experienced such a chaotic scene.
The car stopped at the gate of the college, but heard gunfire sounds from the college. Everyone felt nervous, but the door was not opened for a long time. Zhang Changqiu said to the driver: "You wait for us at the gate, let's go in and take a look, don't turn off the engine."
Zhang Changqiu got out of the car with four people. At this time, no one was guarding the gate. Mu Yang and the others went directly to the school. The academy was not big, it looked like a few buildings, and the gunshots came from one of them.
"Building No. 4, isn't that the building we Chinese students mentioned?" Wu Jinglin said.
"No, the students may be in danger, let's go there quickly." Zhang Changqiu took the lead and ran there, with the three of them following closely.
At this time, the gunfire had stopped. The four of them came to the downstairs of the dormitory and found that there was a man guarding the door of the building with a gun. Seeing the four of them coming, they quickly picked up the rifle in their hands.
The four were stunned. Zhang Changqiu said a few words in Arabic. The bandit holding the gun answered a few words loudly, and then pointed the gun at the four people, obviously not wanting them to get close. Mu Yang thought to himself that he didn't understand Arabic, which is really inconvenient now.
"This is a group of thugs. They are robbing the students we are here to pick them up." Zhang Changqiu said with a frosty face.
Chapter completed!