@mona_fawaz Respect! The Director of the NY Office of UN High Commissioner of Human Rights just resigned: “Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it.” Letter below-

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[–]therazorx👹🧹🥇 The road to truth is often messy. 👹📜🕵️🎖️[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm no longer even convinced his "domestic crimes" were real.

they have CIA all over them.

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You may be right. One thing I remember reading soon after he was set up to be brutally executed is that he had been collaborating with the US in its "war on terror". His crime, according to these sources, was talking about a Pan African project including a gold-backed financial system.

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Yup.

And NATO stole all the gold he had stockpiled to do it.

Don't forget all the cash they stole as well.

Edit:

Oh and speaking of "Domestic" crimes, this Askhistorians thread is pretty telling.

For example;

Perhaps that's western bias. But the reality is that he earned his reputation as an autocrat, quashing dissidents swiftly. Some would point out his leniency (relative), in that he'd often exile dissenters for a set period of time with no threat of imprisonment or punishment when the de-facto sentence was up and they returned. While that is certainly preferable to being hanged for going against say, the Ayatollah, there can be no question that it was an authoritarian regime uninterested in giving power to its people. The power dynamic that feigned republican checks and balances did little other than put window dressing on centralized oversight.

and

In 1984, whatever leniency he'd promised was shown to be reneged upon at best, and a lie at worst. He had his forces execute Al-Sadek Hamed Al-Shuwehdy on state television in a stadium for joining anti-government campaigns. What's noteworthy to the west is that Al-Sadek was an engineering student studying in the U.S. on a visa. The implications were grim.

Moving into 1986, the U.S. accused Gaddafi, or at least his Libyan loyalists, of being behind the Berlin discotheque bombing. An oil embargo was enforced, and then Reagan pushed for military intervention. In a brief bombing campaign, Libyan civilians were killed. This painted the US in a bad light on the world stage, and boosted Gaddafi's profile. It's not unrealistic to think that outside of the US, this might help garner sympathy for him.

However, Gaddafi refused to release two Libyan suspected of bombing a Scottish flight over Scotland in '88. The UN, British Parliament, and US all took very strong stances against the nation and its leader for this. Over 270 people were killed in the attack, and his complacence in sheltering the suspects is nearly impossible to paint in a favorable light. EDIT: he did finally release the two in 1999, and the flight was US-bound.

So basically his crimes were not that dissimilar to what the west does.