Camels, Minority Rights Spur Battle in Libya
ZUWARA, Libya—Next to a pitted airport runway, more than 100 displaced victims of war forage on desert shrubs and poke their noses at a perimeter fence.
They are camels, an unusual population of refugees caught up in deadly clashes in Zuwara, a coastal town near Libya’s border with Tunisia. Far removed from the country’s more closely watched battle—over Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, more than 300 miles to the east—the confrontation here in Zuwara stands to shape the new government’s stance toward Libya’s minority…