AFRICA!
BEWARE OF THE WEST’S DOUBLE STANDARDS
By Fwamba NC
Fwamba
Colonel Gaddafi swore to remain and die or win in Libya. He lived
by his word, when the western sponsored anarchists raided Tripoli; he went and led the resistance from
the frontline; a rare attribute of any leader. Under ordinary circumstances,
many people in the same position will flee the country and leave their people
to suffer alone .Gaddafi lost three of his sons; Khamis,Arab and Mutassim in
the war. The leader as he was fondly referred to by his people chose to die a
martyr. Gaddafi warned that the rebel elements were terrorists and al Qaeda operatives.
Today an al Qaeda flag flies high on a Benghazi
courthouse. The historical leader of
Al Qaeda in Libya, Abdel
Hakim Belhadj, is now the military governor of "liberated" Tripoli and in charge of organizing the army of the
"new Libya".
Libya
has disintegrated and now ethnic tensions are rife. Death and starvation have
taken toll on the populations. Africa is mourning Gaddafi.
The western media has continued misleading the ordinary
citizens of Africa and the third world. A lie
repeated many times becomes gospel truth. That is how propaganda works and the
western governments are champions of this vice since time immemorial. It will
take a while for the citizens of the third world to learn and wholesomely
discover that the western axis of evil will never stop to dismantle the
developing world so long as Africa remains the richest continent in natural
resources and the main source of raw materials for the industrialised nations
that claim prefecture and authority over what they define as democracy.
In the midst of this scenario and against the stated
background, Africa needs to be curious and ask more questions and seek answers
from the west on the malicious invasion of Libya and the eventual assassination
of the leader of the Libyan People’s Jamahiriya Republic Col.Muammar Gaddafi.
It’s not enough for Africans and the citizens of the developing world to be
misled to believe that Gaddafi was killed because he was a dictator. It only
takes a foolish individual, innocently ignorant, gullible mind or a bootlicker
of the western imperialists to believe such an argument. America’s
involvement in any conflict has always been about resources and American interests.
It is not the so called democracy that they purport to bring. There is no time
in history where America has waged a war abroad with an intention of helping
any non-Americans. In any case, America
has never been bothered about the deaths they cause during their reckless and
unjustified wars.
With the American empire as the most powerful military force
on earth, the world peace has become more and more endangered every time
America gets involved in any military conflict.
Col Muammar Gaddafi is one of very few Arab leaders that had
committed himself to denounce and fight against extremism and terrorism. This
had helped Libya which is largely Islamic to remain a peaceful, productive and;
politically stable country for a very long time. He denounced jihadists and
developed a political ideology that was not necessarily centred on religion.
That made many people of different races, ethnic and religious persuasions to
be comfortable in Libya .Many foreigners including black Africans worked in
Libya to earn their daily bread. Gaddafi developed a people centred economy
that ensured that every Libyan earned a decent livelihood. Today Africans like
you and I including professionals and citizens of Libya are victims of racist
and xenophobic attacks. No western media is highlighting this because its none
of their business.
The western media, out of their own hatred and envy of what Col
Gaddafi had achieved for his people and what he was trying to do for Africa,
embarked on an international media smear campaign of discrediting the
leadership of Col Gaddafi. To date, there is no significant justification as to
why the western countries decided to invade Libya. There is no explanation as
to why the NATO countries decided to turn the entire Libyan infrastructure into
rubble. There is no explanation as to why they hunted down and killed the
Libyan leader.
The whole NATO operation was intended to destroy Col Gaddafi,
his family and Libya.
NATO and their Libyan agents in the name of NTC had one main goal, to
assassinate Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. It’s ironical that a few days before Col
Gaddafi was assassinated, the US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Tripoli and called for the killing of Gaddafi.
When she saw the images of his brutal killing she sighed in jubilation. As a
mockery to justice, she later hypocritically said that investigations were
required to establish how Col Gaddafi and his son and national security
advisor; Mutassim were killed.
The start of the so called protests in Benghazi in early 2011
already signified what was in the offing. A few hoodlums while chanting and
brandishing Kalashnikovs started demonstrating in Benghazi. The so called international community
headed by western dictators started alleging that Gaddafi was using too much
force ‘against his own people’. They downplayed the fact that that is the same
kind of force any government would use against armed demonstrators. This is one
question Gaddafi asked Obama in one of his last letters to the American
dictator whom he kept on referring to as ‘my son’ considering president Obama’s
African origin. Its not only in Libya, in Africa or in the third world that
maximum force will be used against any person purporting to demonstrate while
armed with guns and bombs. The end was made to justify the means. The world
super powers conspired and used the UN Security Council’s resolutions 1970 and
1973 to attack Libya,
kill civilians under the guise of protecting them and eventually kill Gaddafi. NATO
called off the operations immediately after Gaddafi was captured and killed in
Sirte on 20th October 2011.Its no coincidence that all so called
liberators are western educated and speak fluent English. They are agents of
imperialism and will plunder the Libyan resources to please their western
matters.
It happened so fast that the rebels emerged from nowhere,
government armouries were raided and people un trained to handle weapons became
custodians of the Kalashnikovs, bombs, grenades and machine guns. Child
soldiers were recruited and put on the frontline to fight in a war whose origin
and objective they knew little about.
Sometime in May the International Criminal Court (ICC)
issued warrants of arrest against Col Gaddafi, Saif Al Islam and Abdalla Senusi
.Apparently the warrants were issued not because the named persons were most
responsible for the deaths in Libya, but because they are the most politically
influential persons in Libya. The intention of western governments is to stage
manage what they call democracy in the developing nations.
The Libyan scenario shows that the west had intentions of
creating confusion as much as possible so as to access all the oil and get
reconstruction projects without any controls. Indicting Saif al Islam was
strategically meant to ensure that even if Col Gaddafi left power, there was no
room for Saif to help lead the country to its original track. The ICC just like
NATO has unfortunately turned into another tool of imperialism and promotion of
there west’s selfish and immoral interests in Africa.
It must be noted that so far the ICC has not named any individual responsible
for war crimes on the side of NATO and NTC.Its evident that majority of the
deaths of civilians resulted from NATO bombs.
Africa is watching and
waiting. The ICC must take action against the Libyan anarchists led Mustapha
Jalil and Mohammoud Jibril and hold them directly responsible for the murders,
rapes, recruitment of child soldiers, displacements and destruction of
property. The ICC too should indict president Obama, President Sarkozy, Prime Minister
David Cameron and Silvio Berlusconi for the crimes against humanity committed
in Libya.
The same too should be specifically charged for the assassination of Col.Muammar
Gaddafi. We expect justice to be done across the board. It should be justice
for everybody or justice for nobody.
Citizens of the developing world should also ask themselves
about the double standards being applied by the imperialist powers.
Their main reason of attacking Gaddafi followed a claim that
he had stayed for long. The Queen of England has stayed in power for 60 years
.No African has ever asked why the queen continues to be the head of the
commonwealth yet no election has been held to elect the queen. Africans respect
other people’s cultures and that is why no African leader has ever ridiculed or
attacked Britain
for being ruled by one family for all that long without raising a question.
The western governments have been slow and reluctant to take
the same action on Syria, Bahrain or Yemen. It’s in doubt whether they
would have supported a military action against their disgraced ally and former
Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
The western media has given a blackout to atrocities being
committed in Bahrain.
The King of Bahrain Hammad Ibn Isa Al Khalifa is under siege but it appears like the
western powers through their puppet Saudi Arabia
King Abdullah are protecting the Bahrain king due to selfish interests.
It’s unfortunate that the third world and the developing nations’ citizens
haven’t grasped interest in reading and learning.
This analysis shows that there was some evil covert
intention of attacking Libya
and killing Colonel Gaddafi. The ‘dictator ‘theory is misleading and we want
our people to know the truth. This is the challenge, read more stuff, find out
more information independently and make sound decisions. With this Africa will prosper. Read and know the truth. We refuse
to be misled.
Fwamba NC Fwamba is the leader of Kenya Young Voters Alliance
