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kobo
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 15 Oct 2011 : 14:07:37
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FOROYAA Editorial : LIBYA, FAILURE OF THE AU, THE ARAB LEAGUE, THE UN, EUROPE AND THE US
"All the regional, continental and International bodies are keeping silent on the crimes against humanity that is being perpetrated by all sides of the Libyan conflict. Some day the blood that has flowed during the Gaddafi era and that is flowing now with impunity will be used to write the bloody pages of Libya’s history.
Those in the world who have the power to say and do something to protect the ordinary Libyan people who sought to live a normal life during the Gaddafi regime and are seeking to live a normal life now would eventually look at the historical record and ask themselves why they stood and did nothing or did so with such blatant one-sidedness so as to derail the very objective of intervening to deter Ghadafi from implementing his threat to crush his fellow citizens like rats and cockroaches.
The world must not forget why all well meaning people asked the UN Security Council to intervene to protect the sovereign Libyan citizens who have the right to show their disagreement to Ghadafi’s monopoly of power and demand for their right to have a government that is determined by the will of each Libyan. The purpose of the intervention was to protect the lives of the Libyan people and their right to peaceful protest against autocracy and call for democratic form of government.
Once Ghadaffi was contained the United Nations should have called for an International Conference on Libya to which all shades of opinion from Libya should have been invited to prepare a transitional programme for the building of a democratic and constitutional rule in Libya as well as the establishment of a Transitional government and Parliament to guide the process of the drafting of a Republican Constitution, the establishment of an Independent Electoral commission with provisional elections laws, the holding of a referendum to adopt or reject the constitution and the holding of free and fair elections once a constitution is adopted.
This should have been the focus of the UN in collaboration with the AU. Unfortunately, the Security Council has turned a blind eye to the civil war that is going on in Libya and ignored the democratisation process. It has pioneered the recognition of a National Transitional Council which is not even selected through a National Conference of all opinion leaders in Libya. It has also given it a free hand to attack, kill and maim other Libyans who are simply hostages of an old regime which is disintegrating and dying instead of freeing them from its clutches by giving them assurance and hope that there will be no social exclusion because of tribe, place of origin, former occupation or loyalty in the new Libya.
The Soviet Union has shown that even empires could change without civil war not to talk about countries like Libya. The AU has become a laughing stock. First it failed to condemn and oppose Gadaffi for calling his people rats and cockroaches and then proceed to recognise the NTC without any process being put in place to move Libya towards democratic Constitutional rule.
The cold war has gone but we now live in a more dangerous world where countries are heading towards civil war and failed state status, thus undermining the sovereignty of the people and their right to determine their manner of government through their consent without any form of inducement or fear. War is continuation of politics by other means. The end result of every war is the takeover of power of its sharing through diplomacy which is also a continuation of politics by other means. The UN Secretary General is the one who should have been visiting and sending envoys to Libya to meet all stakeholders and listen to their opinions and help to prepare the ground for the participation of all Libyans in determining their manner of
Government. This is the way forward. The NTC needs to be checked and not given a free hand to commit similar atrocities as Gadaffi’s regime had perpetrated. Those who rise to combat injustice must not live to perpetrate injustice." Foroyaa
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