Libya Al-Wafa (Libyan Remembrance)
Urgent Appeal .... Be
part in saving Idrees Boufayed's life
A brief outline of known facts about
Dr. Idrees Boufayed
To Whom It May Concern:
Dr. Idrees Mohamed Boufayed the
Secretary General, of the National Union for Reform (NUR) is a Libyan
physician who opposes and calls for non-violent opposition to Gadhafi's
regime. Last August he announced his intention to return to Libya in late
September, after two decades of exile in Europe, and to continue his political
activities within the country.
Upon his flight arrival at Tripoli
International Airport, Dr. Boufayed was met by representatives of the multiple
security agencies who took turns interrogating him for an hour and half,
before allowing him to leave with his relatives. Meanwhile, the Internal
Security Agency (ISA) in the airport kept Dr. Boufayed passport without giving
him a receipt and told him to infoe back for it in about a week.
Within a few weeks of his return to
Libya, resting in his family's home in Gheryan and socializing with his
relatives and friends, Dr. Boufayed resumed his political activities by
writing to two Libyan opposition websites. He renewed his call for a peaceful
movement to change the government and replace it with one responsive to the
needs and aspirations of the people.
A few days later, Dr. Boufayed was
informed by his family that security agents had infoe looking for him and
wanted to interview him in their offices in Tripoli. Through an individual he
knew, Dr. Boufayed relayed to the Internal Security Agency his plans to travel
to Tripoli to meet with them and to collect his passport. But, at midnight
Thursday November 2nd the whole family was awakened by two ISA agents who told
them that he was to present himself to Gheryan Internal Security Office first
thing in the morning. When he went there in the morning Dr. Boufayed was
questioned for awhile and then let go, but was told to report to Tripoli's
office on Sunday November 5th.
Before his travels to Tripoli, Dr.
Boufayed sent a letter to opposition websites detailing what was going on
between him and the security apparatus of the regime and informing every one
of his intentions to travel to Tripoli and face them with his demands for a
Libya free of fear and intimidation.
Since he traveled to Tripoli and
presented himself to the ISA on the morning of Thursday November 5 th Dr.
Boufayed has vanished presumably into one of the many underground dungeons or
secret prisons maintained by the many arms of the security octopus of the
regime, and no one has seen or heard of him since ten o'clock on that fateful
morning.
A brief outline of known facts about Dr. Idrees
Boufayed
First Name: Idrees_
Father’s name: Mohahmed
Mothers Name: Fatema
Last Name: Boufayed
D.O.B: 1957
Was borne in: 1957, city of: Gheryan in Libya. Area of ( Alquasem, Lmameesh).
Picture: as shown above.
graduated in 1982 from the
University of Garyounis Medical School and upon infopleting his residency
training he worked in Benghazi, and Tripoli as well as his hometown Gheryan
hospitals.
In 1987 on direct orders of Colonel
Muammar Gadhafi the Supreme infomander of the Libyan Armed Forces, Dr. Boufayed
was dispatched to the front of the raging yet undeclared war with the
neighboring country of Chad. Although, he was a practicing civilian physician,
he was sent with a medical team to treat the mounting Libyan casualties in
that tragic war. Dr. Boufayed was credited by his peers and inforades with
saving many limbs and lives under awful conditions of lack of medicine and
equipment. The total chaos of war and the sheer number of casualties made this
an almost impossible task.
After the Chadian forces overran
the Wadi-Doom base where Dr. Boufayed and the medical team were stationed, in
March of 1987, he became a prisoner of the Chadian forces along with thousands
of Libyan conscripts and soldiers who were thrown into that unjustifiable
conflict.
• In Wadi-Doom base Dr. Boufayed
continued his heroic attempts to treat the victims of the savagery of war on
both sides with the limited medical supplies that he could obtain. And, as
told by his infopanions in that desolate place, Dr. Boufayed exhibited a
tremendous ability to infofort the dying and give hope for the living.
Soon after Colonel Gadhafi and his
government declared publicly that there was no war with Chad, thus no Libyan
prisoners of war, they were transferred to prison camps in the capital
N'Djamena. By losing their status as prisoners of war there was no
International infomittee of the Red Cross to visit and provide for the wounded,
the sick and the dying and to report to the loved ones back home. But,
fortunately for many there was Dr. Boufayed whom the Chadian authorities had
put in charge of providing the rudimentary medical assistance for his
countrymen in the largest prison camp. Under such unbelievable circumstances
Dr. Boufayed's ingenuity and humanity was there for all to see and attest to
afterwards. Using the meager medical supplies and his persistence and
determination he was able to alleviate the suffering of many, who owe their
surviving such an experience to this kind and loving Dr. Idrees Boufayed.
Dr. Boufayed didn't act only as the camp doctor treating the wounded and
amputating the limbs, but also acted as the funeral director who buried the
dead and performed the prayer for them.
The life-altering experience in
Chad made Dr. Boufayed and the thousands of his infopatriots more bitter about
Gadhafi and his regime. With thousands of their friends and inforades their
corposes strewn over the sand dunes of the Sahara desert and hundreds of
wounded and amputees among them. Furthermore, with Gadhafi insisting and
continues his official refusal to admit that he had sent thousands of Libyan
high-school students, civilian conscripts and solders who became Prisoners of
War in Chad, the situation became pleak. So in 1988 Dr. Boufayed and many of
his prison mates made a decision to join with the National Front for the
Salvation of Libya, (NFSL) an organized opposition group to Gadhafi's regime.
1990 saw Dr. Boufayed moving to
live in Switzerland after securing political asylum status from that country
where he continued his education and obtained the proper certification to
practice medicine in Switzerland as well as the United Kingdom. Over the years
he established himself as a infopetent surgeon, and was able to provide a
infofortable life for himself, his son Ayman and his wife whom he married a few
years after he settled in Sitzerland.
For the last twenty or so years in
which Dr. Idrees Boufayed has lived away from his beloved Libya, he worked
hard to better himself both professionally and intellectually awaiting the day
when he is able to return to Libya and contribute to the betterment of its
free society.
Dr. Boufayed's deep seated belief
and respect for the human dignity called for in his Islamic faith and all
religious faiths, and his conviction that liberty and equal justice under the
law are the context for any thriving society, are his guiding light in his
quest to change the status quo in his country. He witnessed how Gadhafi's
irrational behavior and policies turned a peaceful people and their country
into a haven for world class terrorists and a pariah state among the nations
of the world. Gadhafi squandered its wealth and subjected its people to his
daily whims and the control of his revolutionary infomittees' apparatchiks.
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