A refugee said "I cannot go back to my country because of the following points: 1. Imprisonment and Persecution 2. Torture and punishment 3. Electric torture 4. Beating with the stick on the feet (corporal punishment) 5. threatening me to be killed 6. Lack of human rights organizations which can lobby against human rights violation in the country. 7. Threatening to abuse my family members. 8. Demolition of my house. Due to all that I can’t go back".

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May 5, 2011

Libyan people Support MILITARY INTERVENTION IN LIBYA

Dear Freinds
Although you are trying to promote peace in the region but there is a fact that we Libyan cannot take our freedom from the dicatator Gaddafi only with outside help. Threrfore the Libyan believe that Gaddfi is against the people of Libya wish to topple down peacefully. He said "either I rule you or kill you" and he is doing what he said. Hence Gaddafi is not a ruler he is a Mafia and he is doing everything to hold on to power.
In view of the war forced on the peaceful protesters in the streets of Tripoli, Bengazi Musrata, Zintan, Zawia, and the wesatern mountain it seems that Gaddafi lost his popularity and he shoul hand the power to an interim government like they do in the west. Yet Gaddafi still fighting on and employing mercinaries to carry on the dirty war.
Options to leberate the rest of Libya:
1 Arm the freedom fighters
2 due to lack of experience for the freedom fighters they may need to employ third party to help do the difficult work of stopping Gaddafi airplanes and garad which could kill all the Libyans.
3 Hi jack Gaddafi and his family through an intillegence operation and silence him forever.

The freedom fighters' fire in Libya is in no match to that of Gaddafi. The money situation is so bad and no resources generating income in the country due to civilian's boycott declared by the freedom fighters in all the cities including Tripoli.The assets frozen outside Libya need a new government to take it back. The new government cant be erected only if the capital is liberated. therefore intervention by NATO is favoured by the millions of people as air strikes.
Please support the Libyan struggle by denouncing Gaddafi and not debating Gaddafi or giving a lee way to get out of our hands.
Bashir


IAWM PRESS RELEASE - 15 APRIL 2011 - NO TO NATO INTERVENTION, SUPPORT THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS
IAWM PRESS RELEASE 15 APRIL 2011

• NO TO NATO INTERVENTION - SUPPORT THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS
• OPPOSE NATO MILITARY INTERVENTION IN LIBYA
• PICKET THE EU OFFICES ON DAWSON STREET.

The Irish Anti-war Movement in a statement today, noted that they have organised a series of events this weekend along the theme ‘NO TO WAR - NO TO NATO’. This includes a picket of the EU Offices this evening, Friday 15 April at 6.00pm, against the NATO bombing of Libya and a Public Meeting tomorrow, Saturday 16 April at 4.00pm in Liberty Hall.

PR0TEST AT EU OFFICES, 6.00PM, FRIDAY 15 APRIL
Speakers will include:
Richard Boyd Barrett TD
Jimmy Kelly, UNITE the Union, Region Secretary
and other speakers.

PUBLIC MEETING, LIBERTY HALL, 4.00pm, SATURDAY 16 APRIL
NO TO WAR – NO TO NATO (jointly organised with PANA)
Speakers:
Kate Hudson, Chair CND, UK
Arielle Denis, French Peace Movement
Paul Murphy, MEP
Richard Boyd Barrett, ULA TD, Chair IAWM
John Lannon, Shannonwatch
Eoin O’Broin, Sein Féin
Chair: Patricia McKenna, PANA

The statement noted that: “The US, French and UK governments who are spearheading the NATO intervention in Libya say they are doing it to save civilian lives. We say they are cynically USING the threat to Libyan civilians to intervene for their own reasons – to re-establish their power in the region where it has been threatened by people’s revolutions. They only intervene in order to serve their own interests, safeguard their oil supplies and bolster their own power. Its what they did in the Suez Crisis, in Vietnam, in Cuba, in Algeria, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and what they are doing now in Libya.”

The statement further noted: “France and Britain were colonial powers in the area with terrible records of brutality. The US has been the informal colonial power since World War 2. All of them have a record of supporting – with military and financial aid - all the corrupt, reactionary dictatorships in the region including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Zine Ben Ali in Tunisia (until he was overthrown by the Tunisian people) and above all Hosni Mubarak in Egypt ( until he was overthrown).”

“Their only condition was that these regimes did the bidding of their Western paymasters. They never cared what these regimes did to their people. This is why they supported Gaddafi in Libya once he fell into line with the West. While NATO bombs rain down on Libya, democracy protesters are being killed and tortured on a daily basis right now by the dictatorships in Saudi, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Bahrain WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE WEST. In Libya they are bombing in a way that is bound to kill civilians and they are probably planning to partition the country in a way that none of the Libyans want but that will enable the Western powers to control the country.”

The statement further noted that: “The western powers refused to do the things that would really have helped the citizens the most. They failed to supply humanitarian aid. They refused to recognise the Rebel government. They refused to send arms to the anti-Gaddafi revolutionaries while still selling arms to despotic leaders in the region.”

“These actions would have helped empower the rebels and helped the democracy struggle across the Arab world. Instead the Western powers have intervened to defend their own power in the Middle East. “

Marnie Holborrow of the IAWM Steering Committee noted:
“The NATO bombing must be seen as part of a wider western political strategy for the region. Cameron and Sarkozy, cheerleaders for this initiative, fear that the Arab uprisings may get out of hand and threaten to overturn their cosy relationships with the despotic middle-eastern regimes. They believe that it is time to put their stamp back on the region and force a halt to further radicalization of the pro-democracy movements. That is why we are protesting against the NATO intervention”.

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