Name: Bitter sweet anniversary of Libyan revolution amid siege of Tripoli
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he calls himself a special forces commander.

In reality, Mohammed, a rat is a volunteer guiding us along the front line of Libya's civil, a ghost town on the outskirts of Tripoli, under siege from renegade general belief.

N resolution last week demanded a ceasefire, but every few minutes we can hear incoming artillery or sniper fire, forcing over 170,000 people from their homes.

So far, this suburb of Tripoli has been turned into a no man's land.

The incoming mortars and artillery appear to be indiscriminate, and General Haftar seems hell bent on securing a military victory on taking Tripoli itself rather than suing for peace.

Tar is 78 years old, and though he lived in exile in America for 20 years, it's feared he may be another Libyan dictator in waiting.

His backers include Russia, Egypt and Gulf states vehemently opposed to another Arab spring, though he claims he sent these fighters toe, liberate Tripoli from Islamist militias and to create a secular democracy.

Nonsense, says this mild mannered former architect, who's now prime minister of Libya's besieged but internationally recognized government know Kayoko marshal.

Here we are the legitimate government were the ones who have fought extremism.

Anyone supports what is essentially a coup attempt last month for peace conference attended by Boris Johnson and other world leaders agreed in principle that a U.

N arms embargo on Libya should be enforced.

Proxy conflicts only come to an end when the external proxies decide they will bring it.

But no sooner was the dry than dozens of cargo flights began ferrying supplies believed to be from the United Arab Emirates to territory controlled by General Haftar.

The commander shows me the wing of a drone his men have shot down.

In apparent violation of the UN's embargo.

They're the Emirati is deny any involvement in Libya's war.

Well, he says, uh, let you looked it up on the Internet.

Yeah, aboutthe the emerald, ring it from China.

Yes, this'll has become an international war, he says, and Europe should apply pressure to stop it in an underground control center.

The fighters defending Tripoli have their own cameras trained on the suspected positions of half dollars snipers.

No every day, every morning I understand.

With airstrikes have proved harder to prevent, including this horrific attack on a military parade ground last month, 26 new recruits were killed and dozens injured.

Although the facts are unknown, Roger Hutter wish is in no doubt it took two days before they could identify the body of Mutha.

For a 20 year old son, it was an Emirati drone.

How can they say they don't have anything to do with this war?

The world needs to look at Libya to stop the bloodshed.

This apocalyptic landscape is the legacy of two previous wars.

First the revolution against Colonel Gadhafi, then the battle to expel Isis on.

Now this road leads to the desert front where General Haftar has launched several ground and air assaults.

The men tasked with fighting him look ragged and ill equipped, and they claim they came under fire this morning.

Their arsenal includes this lorry load of aging Soviet Kalashnikovs, artillery shells and rocket propelled grenades.

It's X Gadhafi stock, and it's bought on the black market, one of the biggest arms markets in the world.

This after coming with the mercenaries from showdown from chart from Russia.

Now, though, the balance of power is shifting.

These pictures, which we can't verify, appear to show a cargo ship delivering Turkish armored vehicles to Tripoli last month.

The Internet is awash with propaganda from both sides, but these are allegedly Syrian mercenaries sent by Turkey.

The airline denies it is Tripoli's worst kept secret that President Erdogan has sent some 2000 Syrians.

But General Haftar might say to you that you have Syrian fighters sent by Turkey and so you're violating the U.

I cut them, would have cut the firm way, signed an agreement with the Turkish government.

After months of attacks on our city, I find this talk about Syrians curious.

There are lots of mercenaries on the other side, including Syrians way have a complete list of all the planes going there, but the focus is always on our side.

Libya's popular revolution of nine years ago has Bean betrayed, with two warring sides battling for one flag.

It's also a proxy war for strategic advantage for gas and for oil, with America largely absent.

The question is just how far Europe is prepared to get involved.

Jonathan Rugman, Channel four News Libya.

Well, I'm now in Martyrs Square in the heart of downtown Tripoli.

I was here when the revolution against Colonel Gadhafi first started nine years ago.

It was a hopeful time, an optimistic time on the celebrations on this ninth anniversary.

Although there are thousands of people here on fire accepting let off gunfire as well, the celebrations are bittersweet because Libya has bean plunged into civil war pretty much ever since.

Now the European Union is getting involved in a practical way.

For the first time, it is sending an you naval mission to monitor a U.

N arms embargo backed up by aerial reconnaissance.

But there is a catch because the Austrians are insisting that this naval mission does not go near the routes used by African migrants because it is worried that the ships will be forced under international law.

Toe pick those migrants up So this is very clearly not a humanitarian mission.

 On any talk about deploying troops on the ground is woefully premature, partly because nobody wants to do it on partly because there is no cease fire to enforce, as you saw from my report, which has just being broadcast. 