Muammar Gaddafi and Libyan crisis

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[Davo88]

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Guest Column: Libyan war must be acknowledged

By Megan Ananian, Fourth-year accounting student
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Massacres, genocide can be stopped by awareness, should not be ignored

From the 1890s to the 1920s, Turkey massacred a large percentage of the Armenian population for spreading ideas about civil rights. This spurred the first international human rights movement and the American Red Cross to embark on its first mission to aid Armenian survivors of massacres in 1896.

Although the public’s disapproval of these atrocities increased, the punishments for these crimes grew weaker. In 1921, the Turkish trials were abandoned while war crime prisoners were traded and freed. The U.S. needed Turkey as an ally because it was the core to oil policy in the Middle East. Baroness Caroline Cox of British Parliament responded in 1999, “If nations are allowed to commit genocide with impunity ... there is a real danger that other brutal regimes will be encouraged to attempt genocides. Unless we speak today of the Armenian genocide ... we shall leave this century of unprecedented genocides with this blot on our consciences.” The Armenian Genocide is looked at as an archetype for the genocides that ensued. Even Hitler remarked with indifference, stating, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

As you read this, hundreds of Libyans are dying while attempting to overthrow their dictator in the hope for democracy that has been spreading across the Middle East. The oppressive government has disconnected the people’s Internet and thrown out the media in attempts to permanently silence the movement for change. Through courageous acts of protestors, social media has exposed the atrocities in Libya. A Twitter activist @ChangeInLibya in Tripoli published, “LIBYANS ARE BEING MASSACRED RIGHT NOW.. LISTEN TO THE NEWS.. HELP US PLS HELP US.. TRIPOLI HAS 1000S OF DEATHS FOR GODS SAKE WORLD WAKE UP.” President Barack Obama finally acknowledged the violence Wednesday night, while major news outlets allowed Justin Bieber’s haircut to overshadow the selfish complaints of increasing oil prices as a result of the protests.

The question is quite simple: At what point are the diplomatic compromises no longer acceptable to the basic principles of man? How much genocide, in the name of religion, nationalism or race, is required before the people of this planet are willing to stand up for another man’s basic right to live? What would the world be like if nations acted from the heart instead of cloaking black and white with the “grays” of diplomacy?

Friends, Gamexxxx family and fellow human beings, we cannot let the Libyan voices be silenced and forgotten like the Armenians’. History does not have to repeat itself. We can’t save every life, but we can spread awareness. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Look beyond the triviality of your problems, and help our generation change the world for the better.

http://www.dailygamexxxx.com/viewpoints/item/747-guest-column-libyan-war-must-be-acknowledged

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[Armanen]

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Not really, I guess time will tell if I'm right or wrong, lol.

In geopolitical terms the potential fall of Bahrain is of more strategic importance than Libya. However, the Libya story is easier to package and feed the sheeple.

[KanadaHye]

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Do you have any worthy articles that can attest to your claims?

BTW: I am not saying you're wrong, just want to see what you are basing things on.

Not really, I guess time will tell if I'm right or wrong, lol.

[Armanen]

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You think the majority that receive food subsidies and handouts care about the thousand idiots that fell for western plots? The media in the west is putting a spin on things.... there are plenty of Qaddafi supporters. It's a charade to jack up fuel prices, nothing else.

Do you have any worthy articles that can attest to your claims?

BTW: I am not saying you're wrong, just want to see what you are basing things on.

[KanadaHye]

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You must be joking! Thousands of people have been killed in Libya and Gadhafi is clearly a luntic. I honestly don't see how he can survive this.

You think the majority that receive food subsidies and handouts care about the thousand idiots that fell for western plots? The media in the west is putting a spin on things.... there are plenty of Qaddafi supporters. It's a charade to jack up fuel prices, nothing else.

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It's pretty simple for Qaddafi... all he has to do is hand out more money to the people, problem solved. The population is not that big and he's got the oil tycoons up against a rock and a hard spot.

You must be joking! Thousands of people have been killed in Libya and Gadhafi is clearly a luntic. I honestly don't see how he can survive this.

Gadhafi, wearing a fur cap and sunglasses, is speaking from the ramparts of the Red Castle, a historic fort, overlooking Green Square, where over 1,000 of his supporters were massed Friday evening, waving pictures of him and green flags. Anti-Gadhafi protests erupted during the day Friday, met by gunfire from pro-regime militia.

Ghadafi, pumping his fist in the air, told the crowd to "retaliate against them, retaliate against them" and "prepare to defend the nation and defend the oil."

http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpps/news/i...11-jgr_3730344

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Yesterday two pilots bailed out of their jet and let is crash in refusal to bomb the people. I wonder if the no fly zone setup by the West has taken effect yet.

If Gadhafi try's to flee by air, I'd say he will head south. I doubt that he will have the decency to top himself and I can easily see Gadhafi ending up like Saddam with a noose around his neck. Now that so many people have been killed in Libya, Gadhafi really hasn't got much to lose at this point.

[KanadaHye]

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It's pretty simple for Qaddafi... all he has to do is hand out more money to the people, problem solved. The population is not that big and he's got the oil tycoons up against a rock and a hard spot.

[Federate]

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Tune into Al Jazeera LIVE, Gadhafi giving a speech at Tripoli's Green Square.