Warmongering in Libya: Prime Minister was right (2)

It is completely unacceptable in the context of a democratic society for foreign leaders to dictate to the people of another country who should govern them and who should not. It is a blatant travesty of international law and a crime against humanity to blackmail a people through sanctions to achieve your country’s strategic and economic objectives and try to impose your decisions on a sovereign nation through military force.

Democracy beckons that a people ought to be the supreme authority, judge and arbiter in its own affairs. But in Libya’s case the pre-condition for the Gaddafi family to leave public life was not made by the Libyan people but by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, followed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and later by President Barack Obama with the rest of the European Union following suit. Only at a later stage after the above powers selected Mustafa Abdel Jalil as their puppet leader for Libya in the London conference behind the backs and in the absence both the Libyan government and the opposition did the so-called “rebels” start playing the same tune of their master’s voice.

The only hurdle to a solution to the Libyan crisis is the insistence of the three world leaders that Gaddafi and his family should leave Libyan politics. But in a truly democratic society such a decision of who should govern a country or who should not, does not rest in the hands of foreign leaders like Mr Sarkozy, Mr Cameron and Mr Obama, nor any other foreign leader or rebel force. It is the people of that country who should ultimately decide.

So my message to all these foreign leaders who boast being the prime champions, promoters and protectors of democracy is: prove it that you are democratic! Stop bombing and killing the Libyan people and instead let the Libyans themselves decide their own fate and that of their leader in an internationally independently-monitored referendum.

The British, French and US leaders and their spokesmen, and the so-called “rebels” have no right to speak in the name of the Libyan people and decide for them. Let the Libyan people speak for themselves and let the Libyan people decide.