What was the cause of the Libyan war?

It is generally believed that the unrest in this country is mainly due to the autocratic rule of President Gaddafi and the recent wave of protests sweeping the Middle East. But in fact, the division that the country is falling into is still deeply rooted.

Libya was once a colony of Italy. During the Italian colonial rule, Libya was composed of three autonomous states. The eastern region and Benghazi are basically autonomous.

According to The Wall Street Journal, after Gaddafi came to power in the military coup of 1969, he achieved national reunification by force. He also moved the capital to Tripoli and shifted Libya's political focus to the west. Its regime has largely ignored the east, although most of Libya's oil wealth is there.

According to the report, Gaddafi used tribal disputes to maintain his rule to a certain extent and promoted his tribe to key security positions and decision-making positions. He also successfully suppressed the growth of other political power centers by reorganizing the whole government regularly, making potential political opponents lose their support base or prestige. As a symbol of his Islamic revolutionary ideology, he also nationalized all private enterprises in the 1980s.

Reuters commented that Gaddafi's 40-year leadership over Libya has not made this country a people's country. On the contrary, Libya is one of the countries with the most serious corruption problems in the world. As a country that produces 2% of the world's crude oil, the oil wealth created by Libya has not benefited its 6 million people.

To put it bluntly, national wealth is "unevenly distributed"