It is very tragic that the man who had been raising voice against the West’s imperialist policies, who always dared to stand by the Palestine cause and who strived very hard to build Arab nationalism had to meet a gory death. One should salute his courage for not fleeing like his Egyptian counterpart but preferring death on his own homeland. Despite Muammar Gaddafi’s efforts to uplift Libya in the fields of education, health, housing and agriculture, some of his authoritarian policies had outweighed his achievements. A silent and sustained indigenous struggle was brewing in Libya which could have dethroned Gaddafi sooner or later, the NATO’s “humanitarian intervention” notwithstanding.
The West had been eyeing the Libyan oil for a long time, and its intervention in the name of democracy is reminiscent of the Iraq’s invasion on the false pretext of finding ‘weapons of mass destruction’. The hypocrisy of the U.S-led West was also exposed, when it allowed the corporate media to repeatedly telecast the disturbing visuals of Saddam Hussein’s hanging and Gaddafi’s brutal killing, while it did not show a single body of the 9/11 victims in the name of media censorship.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin
Kadapa, A.P.