Sep 18
Are we to have a world that is committed to peace and respect for the rule of international law; or one of unending and perpetual warfare where covert support for uprisings deemed to be in the interest of the US/NATO will increase, with concomitant global instability on a massive scale for most of humankind, as covert militarism becomes manifestly more blatant, outrageously illegal and overt?
Courtenay–I haven’t seen any convincing answers to the questions you have raised. For the benefit of readers, here are some other recent items on Libya posted by Pambazuka News. Norman
LIBYA: RIGHTS GROUP REPORTS ABUSES
http://aje.me/pjiXUK
Amnesty International has released a report on human rights abuses committed during the movement to topple Libyan fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi. The 122-page report consisted mainly of damning examples of violations by Gaddafi’s regime, saying the strongman’s forces are guilty of crimes against humanity, but it also says the National Transition Council (NTC) is guilty of human rights violations, and appears unwilling to hold its fighters accountable for them.
LIBYA: IMMIGRANTS IMPRISONED, TORTURED
http://n24.cm/ojEGxj
Non-governmental organisation Defense of Foreigners has accused Libya’s new authorities of jailing and torturing some 300 foreigners, mostly Tuaregs from Mali and Niger, suspected of being backers of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
LIBYA: IOM URGES WARRING PARTIES TO PROTECT MIGRANTS
http://bit.ly/qyZwbw
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is making an urgent appeal to warring parties in southern Libya to respect international humanitarian law and ensure no harm comes to the more than 1, 200 migrants seeking refuge at an IOM-established migrant transit centre in the town of Sebha while it works out how best to evacuate them, APA learns in a statement issued in Nairobi.
LIBYA: AFRICA COMMAND LEARNS FROM OPERATIONS
http://1.usa.gov/o3iFXW
A U.S Department of Defense release on its website says that Libya was the first major combat peration for U.S. Africa Command, and its men and women ‘responded well’, the unit”™s commander said. ‘Still, Africom – the military”™s newest combatant command – is assessing the lessons learned from Libya and will make necessary changes,’ said Army Gen. Carter F. Ham.
LIBYA: POLITICAL REPRESSION 2.0
http://nyti.ms/nD5Gjm
An opinion piece in the New York Times looks at the sophisticated electronic equipment that powered Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi”™s extensive spying apparatus, which the Libyan transitional government uncovered.
LIBYA: THE REAL REASON FOR THE WAR
http://bit.ly/p6xCvs
Jean-Paul Pougala answers questions from readers concerning his article ‘The Lies of the Western war against Libya’, which was translated into forty languages.
LIBYA: THE LIBYA HOAX
How the West cooked up the ‘people”™s’ uprising
http://bit.ly/rmckl4
In a post on the Huffington Post Union of Bloggers, the writer exerts that the ‘people”™s revolt’ against another tyrant is unquestionably exciting, and the demise (political and/or otherwise) of Muammar Qaddafi will be widely hailed. But below the surface something else is going on, and it concerns not the Libyan people, but an elite. In reality, a narrowly-based Libyan elite is being supplanted by a much
older, more enduring one of an international variety.’
LIBYA: WHAT IS NEW DEMOCRACY IF BUILT ON RACIAL HATRED?
http://bit.ly/pzpDns
Guest blogger, Ahmed Sule, shows that attacks on both African immigrants and black Libyans (part of the legacy of 19th Century slave trade) have largely remained on the periphery of mainstream media. The political establishment, supporting the rebels, have done even less to acknowledge these atrocities that tarnish the rebels”™ pursuit of democracy.
NIGER: FEARS OF INFLUX FROM LIBYA OF SOLDIERS LOYAL TO QADDAFI
http://nyti.ms/qz74fw
The New York Times carries a report that officials in Niamey, Niger are warily watching and bracing for what they call the disaster scenario that has not yet happened: a huge influx of defeated soldiers loyal to the fallen Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Ahmed Sule,
There is this ignorant belief by non-Africans that blacks who live in North Africa must have been the descendants of slaves. This is stupidly racist nonsense.
The first humans developed in Africa some 200,000 years ago and those that did not leave the continent to populate the whole world all the way through Asia then down into deep South America—must have travelled to ALL parts of Africa, including North and Southern Africa.
So blacks must have living first in North Africa before the filtering of a part of West Asian humankind.
Why should perpetrate this racist myth?
As usual, NATO can’t confirm a scrap of it. These kids and old lady could have been hurt and killed by anything:
A good French site I just discovered has video of the latest portion of this, posted September 22. Auto-translated:
The hospital in Sirte in Libya is full of dead women and children killed by the bombing of French and English pilots. A massacre in absolute silence of the UN and NGOs French and English. Circulate these videos for the families of the pilots voeint their children swinging in Libya killing of babies and children.
Courtenay