The Un Security Council is meeting to discuss the atrocities in Libya....well it's about time.
According to many news sources, Gaddafi's sick regime could be guilty of crimes against humanity...yeah when the regime starts using snipers and AIR STRIKES on democracy protestors, I think that should qualify...and Human Rights Watch puts the death toll at AT LEAST 200 people in the last few days, but we hear of dozens dying everyday, so this is likely much larger. Plus with the lack of foreign journalists and press freedom in Libya, it is next to impossible to verify many of the footage and information coming out of Libya, but the international community has gotten a pretty good idea of the horrific scene unfolding in Libya right now....thanks to social networks, youtube, and SOME elements of the international press...I have been glued to aljazeera, el watan(algerian newspaper), the guardian, bbc, and bloggers on twitter.
one word on the UK and Foreign Minister William Hague...they have strongle condemned the crackdown in Libya, but I would like to hear what they are doing about the millions of dollars they make every year selling arms to not only Libya, but Algeria, Egypt, Bahrain, etc. They are the fifth largest arms exporter in the world according to Aljazeera, so maybe try backing up your human rights discourse with some tangible actions, like not selling regimes like Libya the weapons they are currently using to implement crimes against humanity....
following the live updates in french, http://www.elwatan.com/depeches/en-direct-kadhafi-face-a-l-insurrection-21-02-2011-113001_167.php
and in english on the Aljazeera live blog: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya
Where is the international community?!! Obama, where are you? I know the American relationship with Libya is strange at best, but that should not keep him from speaking about the atrocities that are happening in this country, and in any country for that matter where regimes essentially declare war on peaceful protestors....interested to see what the UN Security Council says/does, if anything....
According to many news sources, Gaddafi's sick regime could be guilty of crimes against humanity...yeah when the regime starts using snipers and AIR STRIKES on democracy protestors, I think that should qualify...and Human Rights Watch puts the death toll at AT LEAST 200 people in the last few days, but we hear of dozens dying everyday, so this is likely much larger. Plus with the lack of foreign journalists and press freedom in Libya, it is next to impossible to verify many of the footage and information coming out of Libya, but the international community has gotten a pretty good idea of the horrific scene unfolding in Libya right now....thanks to social networks, youtube, and SOME elements of the international press...I have been glued to aljazeera, el watan(algerian newspaper), the guardian, bbc, and bloggers on twitter.
one word on the UK and Foreign Minister William Hague...they have strongle condemned the crackdown in Libya, but I would like to hear what they are doing about the millions of dollars they make every year selling arms to not only Libya, but Algeria, Egypt, Bahrain, etc. They are the fifth largest arms exporter in the world according to Aljazeera, so maybe try backing up your human rights discourse with some tangible actions, like not selling regimes like Libya the weapons they are currently using to implement crimes against humanity....
following the live updates in french, http://www.elwatan.com/depeches/en-direct-kadhafi-face-a-l-insurrection-21-02-2011-113001_167.php
and in english on the Aljazeera live blog: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya
Where is the international community?!! Obama, where are you? I know the American relationship with Libya is strange at best, but that should not keep him from speaking about the atrocities that are happening in this country, and in any country for that matter where regimes essentially declare war on peaceful protestors....interested to see what the UN Security Council says/does, if anything....
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