If you have a home in Libya’s port city of Misrata and aren’t there right now, you might not have a home to go back to, as rebel in the area say they don’t want the “traitors and collaborators” to come back, and are demanding anyone who wants back into the city prove they weren’t secretly in league with the Gadhafi regime.
Even those few allowed back in face mistrust and sometimes violence from those who stayed, a reflection of the new Libya where suspicion trumps all else.
And in Libya nothing is more suspicious than skin color. It is well documented that several rebel groups have moved overtly against black people, herding whole cities of them into refugee camps then attacking the camps.
Reports of the Gadhafi forces’ use of mercenary fighters from elsewhere in Africa has convinced many in Libya that being black is proof that one was a regime fighter. In reality, of course, many have lived in Libya for generations, and many more were just immigrant workers. This didn’t prevent them from being arrested, or killed, by rebel troops.
What this means for the future of Libya remains to be seen, but the current environment seems to be a prime one for scapegoating, though the rebel PM promises to investigate reports of persecuting foreigners. Still, with factions inside the rebel movement already arming up for another civil war this could mean major violence.
Where is the new news out of Libya? I haven't heard much at all lately about our newest unconstitutional war.
I hope that NATO will now start bombing the rebels to protect the civilian population!
No doubt orders coming down from the top, for since the beginning of civilization the highest achievers have always ruled that way, keep the people divided against each other and filled with conceit and hate for one another.
Gaddafi ruled over a very self-absorbed and oil rich society, as the highest achievers hoarded the wealth, the educated middle-class enriched themselves upon the misery of anyone less educated, and the uneducated laboring class was comprised mostly of a million imported blacks. One imported slave for every five citizens in a total population of 6.5 million.
Looks like another fine job by the old colonial powers presently called NATO. A little over 100 years ago they attacked the ottoman empire which existed for 800 years and won. The colonial powers created the present mess which they are now attempting to created another mess to keep the oil flowing. Libya will probably be the new base for terorist attacking and they are so close to the colonail powers that they might actually see the fight on their soil. I hope not but they made their bed.
The Ottoman empire was built on the blood of conquered Europeans in the Balkans.
Why is this surprising? Collaborators have historically taken it in the chops after any war, especially a long one or one fought to depose a brutal regime. After World War II Nazi collaborators had their heads shaved — if they were lucky. After our own War of Colonial Secession thousands of loyalists hightailed it back to Britain — to save their necks. In the alternate-history novel End of the Beginning savage retribution is meted out to Americans who snuggled up to the Japanese during their occupation of Hawaii.
I have a strong hunch that a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away life went very badly for storm troopers and other minions of the evil Galactic Empire following the death of Palpatine — when it continued at all.
This is a predictable, baleful result in any society in which the elite, usually for money, follows a policy of displacing the native population. In this country we call such treachery diversity or globalism. The White Christian majority of Americans are being treated by the hostile elite in Washington the same way that the Libyan dictator treated his people. Eventually the result will be the same here if we do not get control of our borders.
This is how british always operate. first let be it white versus blacks. then whites versus Jews. all one at time otherwise victims will be forewarned and retaliate . then white versus white Catholics. then whites versus white Germans. They do like that in nations they do to peoples.— only if the people realize that and finish these parasites off once for all! Those very confederacy flag bearers had recruited a lot of other whites to their cause and later on they would attack those whites also whose origin did not look like from england-one by one. Those same racists were the first to pressurise america to join 2nd world war for saving britain. so their racism was and is not for white race but for a shopkeepers’ race derived from Phoenicians (no European) and who the world knows by the name of English and anglo-saxon race. From the 1st day of 2nd world war America secretly supplied arms and supplies. british spitfire and other british arms were low quality useless junks-american plane along with Japanese Mitsubity and German planes were the real weapons of 2nd world war-but then british and anglo saxon media would like you to believe otherwise. Rest we know. With 80 % of German's forces on winter Russian soil, even then Germans were more superior in might and valour then the english who simply were conniving how to embroil others in the war rather than fight themseselves. Israelis in last 50 years have won spectacular victories (without assistance of UNO sanctions agents enemies, unlike some (in 48 war Israelis Massesmitchs plane destroyed RAF plane flown by english( fighter) pilots who dared raid against Israel). Then british threatened Israel with dropping atomic bomb over Israel. But Israelis do not celebrate so much (even 30 anniversary of taking of Western Wall in 67) with military band and show and do the english with their tartly shows of crap british war machine.
Fancy there being Africans, black ones at that, in an African country which was a top member of the African Union. Gaddafi did so much towards pan-African projects eg communications, but the "rebels" do not approve of Africans, and imprison and even kill them in the new NATO-Libya.