Africa should rally behind Gadaffi
Mar 31, 2011
ON Thursday March 17, the United Nations (UN) officially gave the Western imperial powers the green light to launch a military aggression against Libya. Two days later, the imperial forces started bombing Libya.
By Nsereko Mutumba
ON Thursday March 17, the United Nations (UN) officially gave the Western imperial powers the green light to launch a military aggression against Libya. Two days later, the imperial forces started bombing Libya.
Whatever happens next, the UN has lost credibility as a world body. It has once again proved that it is not concerned about the blood being poured by the Western bombs worldwide. It also exposes the UN as a project controlled by the US and its Western allies to fulfil their agendas.
As Africans, we should instead look at the African Union (AU) for a reasonable and peaceful solution to the Libyan crisis.
I support the AU position on Libya which is strongly against any foreign military intervention. It is high time Africans rose up to resist the West’s lack of respect for the AU.
If the UN or the Western countries for had any respect for the AU, they should have backed the African solution to an African problem instead of backing the Arab solution to an African problem.
Their decision to go with the Arab position, therefore, shows the highest level of double standards.
In Libya, Western powers are telling Gadaffi not to fight gun wielding rebels calling them reformers; in Bahrain, the West has deliberately ignored the killing of pro-democracy activists by their puppet Arab dictators, so how can we trust the Americans move in Libya.
The Japan nuclear threat is an international disaster, but who cares when the rebels in Libya have promised oil to those who want to overthrow Gadaffi.
In Ivory Coast, UN workers are being killed, but who cares when America and Britain have an opportunity to invade another Muslim country. In Bahrain, pro-democracy activists are being massacred by oppressive forces sponsored by the West, but who cares if those doing the killing are Western puppets. I wonder why there is no talk of a no fly-zone in Israel and Ivory Coast whose leaders are the real dangers to democracy.
Gadaffi has done a lot for Africa and it is the duty of all African countries to rally behind him as he confronts those who are after exploiting Africa and its resources.
The writer is the spokesman of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council
ON Thursday March 17, the United Nations (UN) officially gave the Western imperial powers the green light to launch a military aggression against Libya. Two days later, the imperial forces started bombing Libya.
Whatever happens next, the UN has lost credibility as a world body. It has once again proved that it is not concerned about the blood being poured by the Western bombs worldwide. It also exposes the UN as a project controlled by the US and its Western allies to fulfil their agendas.
As Africans, we should instead look at the African Union (AU) for a reasonable and peaceful solution to the Libyan crisis.
I support the AU position on Libya which is strongly against any foreign military intervention. It is high time Africans rose up to resist the West’s lack of respect for the AU.
If the UN or the Western countries for had any respect for the AU, they should have backed the African solution to an African problem instead of backing the Arab solution to an African problem.
Their decision to go with the Arab position, therefore, shows the highest level of double standards.
In Libya, Western powers are telling Gadaffi not to fight gun wielding rebels calling them reformers; in Bahrain, the West has deliberately ignored the killing of pro-democracy activists by their puppet Arab dictators, so how can we trust the Americans move in Libya.
The Japan nuclear threat is an international disaster, but who cares when the rebels in Libya have promised oil to those who want to overthrow Gadaffi.
In Ivory Coast, UN workers are being killed, but who cares when America and Britain have an opportunity to invade another Muslim country. In Bahrain, pro-democracy activists are being massacred by oppressive forces sponsored by the West, but who cares if those doing the killing are Western puppets. I wonder why there is no talk of a no fly-zone in Israel and Ivory Coast whose leaders are the real dangers to democracy.
Gadaffi has done a lot for Africa and it is the duty of all African countries to rally behind him as he confronts those who are after exploiting Africa and its resources.
The writer is the spokesman of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council