Interactive Map of Mass and Deliberate Destruction in Tawergha, Libya
Four shipping containers used as an improvised clinic
Destroyed water tank
Heavily damaged and vandalized private house
Destroyed private house
Destroyed and vandalized shops in commercial building
Ten shipping containers used as a temporary school
Heavily damaged main commercial bank branch (white building)
Damaged ward in Tawergha General Hospital
Extensively damaged, vandalized Tawergha secondary school for girls
Extensively damaged, vandalized al-Dhia’ school
Burnt out cars in front of damaged private houses
Heavily damaged court house
Children at temporary camp for displaced families in damaged former school
Boy in his damaged, vandalized home
Destroyed furniture behind a private house
Damaged and vandalized private house, pulled out electric cables
Destroyed water tank
Destroyed, vandalized private house
Destroyed and vandalized private houses, old Tawergha
Vandalized water purification plant, old Tawergha
Human Rights Watch visited the Libyan town of Tawergha, where only a handful of the 48,000 former residents forcibly displaced for seven years have returned to their homes. This interactive map displays the massive and deliberate destruction of the town and its infrastructure and is accompanied by photos taken by Human Rights Watch researchers in September 2018.