Libya: Leading the country to a partition

By on May 5, 2011
Since the early coalition strikes led by the French air force in Libya, some African organizations as well as leading intellectuals have taken a clear position to address the Libyan  Jamahiriya crisis.

Moreover, a delegation of African presidents flew to Libya with good intensions, to bring Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and the rebels to a consensual compromise, but in vain. After that, nothing more had been done, while the NATO forces, determined to bring down the Libyan regime, are continuing their attacks against targeted military command sites, such as the three ones, executed on Wednesday on Tripoli, by NATO aircraft. From its side, the Libyan regime continues to launch ultimatum after ultimatum like that about the city of Mistra, where Muammar Kadhafi’s loyalists had offered an amnesty to the rebels if they accept to surrender; but the rebels had immediately dismissed, and their commander-in-chief, Ibrahim Baitalmal has stated: “We are not going to give up… We must win or die”. Consequently, and for the first time since the rebellion, a suicide car bomb exploded just near the National Transitional Council headquarters in Benghazi, the rebels’ stronghold. So those are the scenario and the current reality in which conflicting and dual elements are all brought together for the Libyan crisis to continue and escalate, leading the country to a likely partition. An African proverb says: “If you cannot do anything against the water that drowns you, be wise at least and swallow it until your last breath”. So if we have to go after someone, it’s after Colonel Muammar Kadhafi, who has never been an angel, but that responsible who failed to give to his people, and for 42 years, a true structured and institutionalized State.

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