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Originally Posted by AAB
People of Libya are behind Gaddafi. The CIA financed and supported group pushed into fighting Gaddafi are not representative of the Libyan people. Gaddafi protected his people from outside aggression for decades and continues to this day by fighting these rebels off. Clearly, that's not what parties who want an asskisser in Libya want to see...
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By protecting you mean recruiting/buying foreign volunteers to supplement his forces after parts of the Libyan military in the east defecting? Relatives and loyal members of his tribe is not the people of Libya.
International human rights organizations have documented severe human rights abuses. The International Criminal Court warned Gaddafi that he and members of his government may have committed crimes against humanity. Gaddafi vows to stay in power at all costs.
Gaddafi has "protected his people" for decades with a revolutionary committee on par with Saddam Hussein's Iraq or Kim Jong-il's North Korea (reportedly ten to twenty percent of Libyans work in surveillance for these committees). The regime has often executed opposition activists publicly and the executions are rebroadcast on state television channels. Gaddafi has paid for murders of his critics around the world (bounties) and continues to do so (Ashur Shamis etc).
Amnesty International reported that many of the country's writers, intellectuals and other prominent opposition sympathizers have disappeared in cities controlled by Gaddafi.
I understand that some of you are against invading the country, but how anyone can defend Gaddafi is beyond me. A no-fly zone surely would help further war crimes.