It is close to a decade since Libya became what it is today; its own shell after the fall of the regime led by its longtime dictator, Muamar Gaddafi who’s toppled and summarily killed as the world watched in disbelief––and for sum with glee. In this biagulated piece, we’re looking at post-Gaddafi Libya as it bleeds to death as it spins and spirals to a failed country status. When another dictator in neighboring Egypt, Hosni Mubarak’s pulled down, Gaddafi’s quoted as saying that Libya’s different from Libya. In truth, the west, through its Libyan nodes, duped Libyans and used them to destroy their country and kill their dictator. Gaddafi’s deposing and thereafter arresting and summary killing, for many Libyans who were tired of his rule were over the moon wrongly thinking this would usher in democracy they lacked for a long time. Pitifully and sadly, it didn’t happen though. Instead of bringing democracy and human rights to replace dictatorship thereof, ochlocracy and delinquency have taken over ever since. Libyans and other Africans under dictators were equally duped and frustrated to rethinking about toppling theirs. Surely, many have backburnered any attempts to topple their tinpot despots. The M7, Beer and others are jubilating now. Indeed, Libya’s an idyllic country that throve economically and socially under Gaddafi it now misses and wishes it’d not have demised. Libya’s even firmer politically than many democracies despite being ruled by a despot for over four decades.
Furthermore, Libya’s all over the place, especially in Africa. Go to South Africa. You’ll hear a story of how Libya helped in the struggle against apartheid while the west’s in bed with the regime down there. When it comes to the rights of Africans, despite openly favoring to be referred to as an Arab who accidentally happened to be born in Africa, Gaddafi made sure that he contributed and supremely controlled the continent to his advantage despite pretending he’s meat in the sandwich, which he actually wasn’t. He provided scholarships to many African students in many countries. He donated mosques in some. He oft used to dine and wine African rulers whenever and wherever he snatched the opportunity. In all, before being booted out, Gaddafi succeeded to invite African rulers to Sirte, his hometown, to lecture them about how to become independent and prosperous based on wisely utilizing their resources. When he’s captured and butchered, news swirled that his African counterparts who used to benefit from his largesse abandoned him. We know. They didn’t have any muscle before their ex-masters, at least, they’d have shouted at those who were hunting him in order to kill him. Gaddafi tried to reconcile with his arapaima like enemies he mistook of friends in the west. But alea iacta est or the dice was cast. There’s no turning back. He’d to die. And, indeed, he died.
At this point in time, Libya’s been bleeding to death since the bloody dictatorship under Muamar Gaddafi’s brought down after mass action supported and used by the west to topple their friend-turned foe. Many historians, journalists and social scientists have chronicled the brutal and shameful fall of Gaddafi from grace. The books of history and political science have or will be written on Gaddafi. However, the sapience of doing so depends on many factors such as who’s writing, when and why. Despite chronicling the rise and fall of Gaddafi, sadly, much attention’s been placed on a person but not a nation. It all depends on where one stands to look into Libya’s fateful history and Gaddafi’s as well. Much attention’s been placed on the dictator sadly but not on the nation. Gaddafi has eclipsed the nation. This is wrong. It needs to be righted to avoid its perpetuation and repetition as far as colonial sired African feeble states are concerned. To me, what matters is the death of Libya as is the case of Iraq compared to that of Saddam Hussein; Afghanistan compared to that of Mohammed Najibullah and Afghanistan who all, ironically died violently as opposed to those of Yugoslavia and Marshall Josip Broz Tito with the exception of that Adolf Hitler minus Germany.
We have brutally and blindly overcharged the tyrants without doing the same to the forces that cloned and nourished them. What academic and practical ignorance and self-deception! We have stupidity exonerated the movers and shakers in this international delinquency. This is but a collective sin.
This is what’s kept Africa languishing in conflict and misery. How do you tackle the baboon by exonerating the elephant and resolve the problem? Who cares about asking such a logically thorny question? Who cares if the real culprits hide behind democracy human rights and what have you?
The west has destroyed the world.
Colonialism globalism capitalism racism you name it. Who holds it accommodated for the sins it has perpetually perpetrated against the world full of the progenies of the lesser God? It's right to forget the tyrants but not the nation's however artificial and fake they are. Doing so is nothing but internalising and sanctioning the crime and the practice.
To avoid what befell Libya, west’s monomaniac kultur of destruction needs to be watched closely. For, Idi Amin former Uganda butchers as well without forgetting Jean- Bedel Bokassa (CAR), Augusto Pinochet (Chile), Anastasia Somoza, Abdul Fattah al Sisi (Egypt) and many more are a few of those the west cloned and used to dislocate targeted countries either to exploit their resources or maintain their strategic positions.
If you uproot the roots, the shoots will die but if you uproot the shoots and spare the roots they’ll germinate. To cure the scourge, we need to start with the root cause but not the its victims.
When the world faced the crime without name, as former Britain prime minister Winston Churchill once defined genocide, an academic, Raphael Lemkin (24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) gave the world the term genocide. Lemkin coined the word genocide by combining two languages namely Greek and Latin from which he scooped two words namely genos (family, race or tribe) and -cedere namely killing. Ever since, the word has been entrenched in the international law. When Lemkin came up with this term, the world was reeling from the holocaust that the Nazi committed in Europe on Jews. Due to the sensitivity of the issue, there was a very urgent need of establishing national and international law to deal with this crime. Notably, the world by then was more of Europe and its allies. The rest were but a peripheric one whose importance was as good as none.
That’s why some academics question the rationale of establishing the law a long time after the first genocides such as those in the DRC and Namibia were committed. Underscoring that those involved were not white people, there was no way one would have the urgency to formulate the law.
Today’s this piece seeks to introduce another crime that’s slowly being committed by the high and the mighty over the children of the lesser God. This is none other than what I call
Centum ide or statoscope or the killing of the nation or state as neologism, which, up until now, has actually already occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. How far will this fare? All depends on how the preys will act.
Although the Centumide or Statumcide isn’t expressly called so by those committed it as was genocide before Lemkin coined it, it has the name. It is arrogantly and wrongly called regime change. If we ask ourselves, was what transpired in Libya a regime change? A regime change would remove one regime and replace it with another. Looking at what transpired in Libya and other two mentioned country, it is unreasonable to claim that it was regime change. If anything, it was nation or state destruction hence, Centumide and statumicide.
In sum, systematically, the west has always created the propitious environment for destroying and exploiting countries with resources that it doesn’t have monomaniac freebooting access to. To do so, it destabilises them under many pretexts. It can use democracy or selective human rights that it doesn’t give to others who aren’t like it or its friends or feeds. This is the story of the demise of Gaddafi and Libya that African countries need to be cagey of. Being the victims of western machinations, every African country needs to learn from the fall of Libya instead of putting more emphasis on Gaddafi’s. As Publius Terentius Afer (The African), Roman Poet, puts it “Hom sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto” literary I am a human; I consider nothing that is human alien to me–––what befell Libya can befall any country. For, nits make lice. The saying goes.
Furthermore, Libya’s all over the place, especially in Africa. Go to South Africa. You’ll hear a story of how Libya helped in the struggle against apartheid while the west’s in bed with the regime down there. When it comes to the rights of Africans, despite openly favoring to be referred to as an Arab who accidentally happened to be born in Africa, Gaddafi made sure that he contributed and supremely controlled the continent to his advantage despite pretending he’s meat in the sandwich, which he actually wasn’t. He provided scholarships to many African students in many countries. He donated mosques in some. He oft used to dine and wine African rulers whenever and wherever he snatched the opportunity. In all, before being booted out, Gaddafi succeeded to invite African rulers to Sirte, his hometown, to lecture them about how to become independent and prosperous based on wisely utilizing their resources. When he’s captured and butchered, news swirled that his African counterparts who used to benefit from his largesse abandoned him. We know. They didn’t have any muscle before their ex-masters, at least, they’d have shouted at those who were hunting him in order to kill him. Gaddafi tried to reconcile with his arapaima like enemies he mistook of friends in the west. But alea iacta est or the dice was cast. There’s no turning back. He’d to die. And, indeed, he died.
At this point in time, Libya’s been bleeding to death since the bloody dictatorship under Muamar Gaddafi’s brought down after mass action supported and used by the west to topple their friend-turned foe. Many historians, journalists and social scientists have chronicled the brutal and shameful fall of Gaddafi from grace. The books of history and political science have or will be written on Gaddafi. However, the sapience of doing so depends on many factors such as who’s writing, when and why. Despite chronicling the rise and fall of Gaddafi, sadly, much attention’s been placed on a person but not a nation. It all depends on where one stands to look into Libya’s fateful history and Gaddafi’s as well. Much attention’s been placed on the dictator sadly but not on the nation. Gaddafi has eclipsed the nation. This is wrong. It needs to be righted to avoid its perpetuation and repetition as far as colonial sired African feeble states are concerned. To me, what matters is the death of Libya as is the case of Iraq compared to that of Saddam Hussein; Afghanistan compared to that of Mohammed Najibullah and Afghanistan who all, ironically died violently as opposed to those of Yugoslavia and Marshall Josip Broz Tito with the exception of that Adolf Hitler minus Germany.
We have brutally and blindly overcharged the tyrants without doing the same to the forces that cloned and nourished them. What academic and practical ignorance and self-deception! We have stupidity exonerated the movers and shakers in this international delinquency. This is but a collective sin.
This is what’s kept Africa languishing in conflict and misery. How do you tackle the baboon by exonerating the elephant and resolve the problem? Who cares about asking such a logically thorny question? Who cares if the real culprits hide behind democracy human rights and what have you?
The west has destroyed the world.
Colonialism globalism capitalism racism you name it. Who holds it accommodated for the sins it has perpetually perpetrated against the world full of the progenies of the lesser God? It's right to forget the tyrants but not the nation's however artificial and fake they are. Doing so is nothing but internalising and sanctioning the crime and the practice.
To avoid what befell Libya, west’s monomaniac kultur of destruction needs to be watched closely. For, Idi Amin former Uganda butchers as well without forgetting Jean- Bedel Bokassa (CAR), Augusto Pinochet (Chile), Anastasia Somoza, Abdul Fattah al Sisi (Egypt) and many more are a few of those the west cloned and used to dislocate targeted countries either to exploit their resources or maintain their strategic positions.
If you uproot the roots, the shoots will die but if you uproot the shoots and spare the roots they’ll germinate. To cure the scourge, we need to start with the root cause but not the its victims.
When the world faced the crime without name, as former Britain prime minister Winston Churchill once defined genocide, an academic, Raphael Lemkin (24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) gave the world the term genocide. Lemkin coined the word genocide by combining two languages namely Greek and Latin from which he scooped two words namely genos (family, race or tribe) and -cedere namely killing. Ever since, the word has been entrenched in the international law. When Lemkin came up with this term, the world was reeling from the holocaust that the Nazi committed in Europe on Jews. Due to the sensitivity of the issue, there was a very urgent need of establishing national and international law to deal with this crime. Notably, the world by then was more of Europe and its allies. The rest were but a peripheric one whose importance was as good as none.
That’s why some academics question the rationale of establishing the law a long time after the first genocides such as those in the DRC and Namibia were committed. Underscoring that those involved were not white people, there was no way one would have the urgency to formulate the law.
Today’s this piece seeks to introduce another crime that’s slowly being committed by the high and the mighty over the children of the lesser God. This is none other than what I call
Centum ide or statoscope or the killing of the nation or state as neologism, which, up until now, has actually already occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. How far will this fare? All depends on how the preys will act.
Although the Centumide or Statumcide isn’t expressly called so by those committed it as was genocide before Lemkin coined it, it has the name. It is arrogantly and wrongly called regime change. If we ask ourselves, was what transpired in Libya a regime change? A regime change would remove one regime and replace it with another. Looking at what transpired in Libya and other two mentioned country, it is unreasonable to claim that it was regime change. If anything, it was nation or state destruction hence, Centumide and statumicide.
In sum, systematically, the west has always created the propitious environment for destroying and exploiting countries with resources that it doesn’t have monomaniac freebooting access to. To do so, it destabilises them under many pretexts. It can use democracy or selective human rights that it doesn’t give to others who aren’t like it or its friends or feeds. This is the story of the demise of Gaddafi and Libya that African countries need to be cagey of. Being the victims of western machinations, every African country needs to learn from the fall of Libya instead of putting more emphasis on Gaddafi’s. As Publius Terentius Afer (The African), Roman Poet, puts it “Hom sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto” literary I am a human; I consider nothing that is human alien to me–––what befell Libya can befall any country. For, nits make lice. The saying goes.
Source: African Executive Magazine today.
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