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LIBYA: THE NEW KOSOVO? Posted on Friday, March 11 @ 7:00:00 CT davide

OF DIANA JOHNSTONE
counterpunch.org

Another NATO intervention?

About a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia, removing the province of Kosovo to Serbia, there are signs that the 'military alliance is preparing for a' small victorious other "humanitarian war", this time in Libya . The differences are certainly enormous, but we give a 'look at some of the disturbing similarities. A leader



demonized as a "new Hitler ', the man to hate and want to destroy, Slobodan Milosevic in 1999 was a neophyte compared to Muammar Gaddafi today. The media had less than 10 years to make Milosevic a monster, while Gaddafi are there for decades. And Gaddafi is more exotic, speaks little English and is presented in public in clothes that may have been created by John Galliano (recently discovered another monster).

This raises the exotic 'ridicule and contempt for ancient cultures in which lower the' West was won, the 'Africa was colonized, and the Summer Palace in Beijing has been devastated by Western soldiers fighting to keep the world safe from dependence on 'opium.

The chorus of "We must do something"

As in Kosovo, the crisis in Libya has been seen by the hawks as an 'opportunity to assert their power. The terrible John Yoo, the legal counsel that has been shown to 'Bush Jr. administration. the benefits of torturing prisoners, used the Wall Street Journal to advise all 'Obama administration to ignore the UN Charter and getting out in Libya. Yoo said that "putting aside the antiquated rules of the United Nations, the United States can save lives, improve well-being global and serve its national interests, all at the same time. "And another great theoretician of 'humanitarian imperialism, Geoffrey Robertson, told The Independent that despite appearances, violating international law is lawful.

ghosts "crime against 'humanity' and 'genocide' are evoked to justify the war

As with Kosovo, an internal conflict between government and armed rebels have been represented as a" humanitarian crisis ", where only a part, the government , was deemed "criminal." This criminalization is expressed a priori by appealing to an international judicial body to investigate the crimes believed to have been committed or were about to be committed. In its editorial, Geoffrey Robertson makes clear that the ICC was used to prepare the ground for a possible military intervention. He explained how the ICC can be used from 'West to circumvent the risk of a veto military action by the Security Council.

"In the case of Libya, the board has placed at least an important precedent in a unanimous vote a reference to the International Criminal Court .[...] What happens then if the criminals on the loose Libyan aggravate their crimes - for example hanging or firing at opponents in cold blood, potential witnesses, civilians, journalists and prisoners of war? " [Note that so far do not There are no "incriminating" nor any evidence of "crimes" that supposedly could "worsen" in different ways imaginary]. But Robertson is keen to find a way to "take up the challenge to NATO in the event that the Security Council decides to do nothing.

"The defections in the Security Council require the approval of a limited right, without his mandate, to enable the 'use of force by an' alliance like NATO to stop the commission of crimes against humanity. This right arises once the Board has identified a situation as a threat to world peace (and Libya has been so universally identified and referred to the Prosecutor of the ICC). "

Thus, the referral of a country to the ICC prosecutor can become a pretext to wage war in that country! 'S more, the jurisdiction of the ICC is supposed to be applied to states that have ratified the treaty establishing it, and that, as I understand it, is not the case of Libya - or the United States. However, there is a big difference, the United States were able to persuade, intimidate or bribe several state parties and accept the agreements which have never under any circumstances try to refer offenders to the ICC any Americans. This privilege was denied to Gaddafi.

Robertson, member of the Justice of the United Nations, concludes: "If you are asked for our help, the duty to stop as best we can the 'mass murder of innocent people, is crystallized to' use, not 'legitimate' but lawful" use of force by NATO.

idiocy of the left

Twenty years ago, most of the European left has supported the war in Kosovo, which NATO has put endless hours on the road continues in Afghanistan. Not having learned anything, many seem ready to repeat itself. A coalition of parties called the European Left, issued a statement that "strongly condemns the repression perpetrated by the criminal regime of Colonel Gaddafi" and calls the 'European Union "to condemn the' use of force and act promptly to protect the people who are demonstrating peacefully and fight for their freedom. "As the opposition to Gaddafi is not simply demonstrating peacefully," but in part has taken up arms, he condemns the 'use of force only by some and not by others - but it is unlikely that the politicians who have made this statement becomes even realize what they are saying.

The limited view of the left is illustrated by the statement in an article that says Trotskyist "all the crimes of Gaddafi, that without doubt the most serious and least known, and its complicity with the migration policy of 'European Union ..." To the left extreme, the greatest sin of Gaddafi and his collaboration with the 'West, just as the' West is to blame for his collaboration with Gaddafi. This is a fruit left in complete confusion, a supporter of the war.

Refugees

The mass of refugees from Kosovo, was used to justify those same NATO bombing from which these refugees were fleeing. It was not even made an 'independent investigation on the multiple causes of this' temporary exodus - a major cause of the bombing was probably the same. Today, by the way the media are reporting the data to the large number of refugees who are leaving from Libya when the problems started, the public could have the 'impression that these refugees are fleeing from persecution of Gaddafi. How frequently, the media focus on a 'superficial image without seeking an explanation. A little 'think tank could fill the gap d' information. E 'unlikely that Gaddafi is driving the foreign workers that his regime has led to Libya for the construction of important infrastructures. Instead, it is quite clear that some rebels "democrats" have attacked foreign workers for pure xenophobia. L 'Gaddafi opened to Africans in particular has a bad reputation from a number of Arabs. But we should not talk too much about this, since they are now our "good guys". This is a little 'how where attacks on Roma in Kosovo Albanians have been overlooked or justified by the occupying NATO on the grounds that "the Roma had collaborated with the Serbs." Osama Bin Laden



An 'other similarity between Yugoslavia and Libya that the United States (and its NATO allies), once again found themselves on the same side of their old friend of the Afghan Mujahedin: Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden was a moderate ally of the Islamist party of Alija Izetbegovic during the Bosnian civil war, a fact carefully ignored by NATO powers. Of course the Western media have dismissed the recent allegations of Gaddafi, which he said that Bin Laden was fighting against, as the ravings of a madman. However, the fight between Gaddafi and Bin Laden is real, and before the attacks of 'September 11, 2001 at the Twin Towers and Pentagon. Just Gaddafi was the first to try to feel the 'Interpol's Bin Laden, but got no cooperation from the United States. In November 2007, the 'French news agency AFP reported that the leader of the Fighting Islamic Group in Libya announce their affiliation with Al Qaeda. As the Mujahideen who fought in Bosnia, these Libyan Islamic groups have been formed in 1995 by veterans of the war sponsored by the U.S. against the Soviets in Afghanistan of the 80s. Their stated aim is to overthrow Gaddafi and then establish a radical Islamic state. The basis of 'radical Islam has always was the eastern part of Libya, where the recent uprising erupted. From that addressed the mass of peaceful demonstrators is not like those who spilled their dictators in Egypt and Tunisia, but there is a conspicuous component of armed militants, it is reasonable to assume that the Islamists are taking part in the rebellion.

Refusal of negotiations

In 1999 the United States was eager to use the Kosovo crisis to give NATO its baptism of fire in a new mission "out-of-area". The farce of peace talks in Rambouillet was sent to 'air from the U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who put aside the more moderate Kosovo-Albanian leaders to Hashim Thaci, the young leader of the 'Kosovo Liberation Army, "an' organization known to be linked to criminal activities. The Albanian rebels in Kosovo were a mix of good and evil, but as often happens, the United States we have had a hand, and have caught the worst.

In Libya, the situation could be even worse

My impression, in part due to a visit to Tripoli four years ago, is that the 'current rebellion is an even greater mix, with serious potential internal contradictions. Unlike the 'Egypt, Libya is not a populous state with thousands of years of history, a strong sense of national identity and a long political culture. Half a century ago was one of the poorest countries in the world, and is not yet fully emerged from its organizational structure for the clan. Gaddafi, in his eccentric way, was a factor in modernization, using the proceeds of oil to increase standards of living up to the highest levels of the African continent. His opposition, paradoxically, comes from a part of traditional Islamic reactionaries, who consider him a heretic for his relatively liberal views, from 'the other beneficiaries of modernizing westernized, who are embarrassed by' Gaddafi's image and want an even greater modernization . Also there are other tensions that may lead to civil war and even to divide the country along geographical lines.

The Dogs of war are sniffing around for bloodshed far larger than those successes. The United States intensified the conflict in Kosovo in order "to intervene", and the same risks they are running now Libya, where the 'ignorance of' the West on what should be done is enormous. The proposed

Chavez neutral mediation to avoid a disaster is the way of wisdom. But NATOlandia, the concept of solving problems through peaceful mediation, rather than by force, seems to have vanished. Diana Johnstone


Source: www.counterpunch.org
Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone03072011.html 07/03/2011


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