Muammar Gaddafi Oppressed The Protests

Protestants in Libya were attacked by security forces, reportedly snipers, under the orders of former leader of Libya Gaddafi and his circle including intelligence chief Abdullah Al-Senussi and son Saif al-Islam. The events left thousands of civilians including women and children, dead and gravely injured which caught the attention of the ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo. Although these crimes were judicially the responsibility of the Libyan government, it had failed in stopping and preventing these crimes from being committed which ultimately made them responsible in the eyes of Justice. Although before the ICC could get their hands on Gaddafi and his sons Libyan authorities in Tripoli arrested them and sentenced his sons and eight other

Just a few years ago, Libya had one of the highest standards of living of any African country. Now Libya is in political turmoil with multiple groups and governments trying to gain power. In 1969, Muammar Gaddafi seized power of Libya by a military coup. The authoritarian ruler stayed in power for four decades until 2011 when he was killed in an armed rebellion assisted by Western military intervention. The UN intervened in Libya for human rights reasons, not to facilitate a regime change. Shortly after Gaddafi was killed, foreign assistance disappeared leaving Libya fragile and hostile. The Libyan civil war began as a part of the Arab uprising, with two main opposing forces, the government and rebel militias. The military groups that had once fought to topple Gaddafi began to turn on each other in an attempt to gain power and oil wealth. Libya is now more ideologically divided than ever and in need of a plan to revive its nation.

This led to a full-scale revolt and civil war in Libya, a large North African country which was run by Colonel Gaddafi. The UN Security Council passed a resolution to freeze Gaddafi 's assets later that same month. Gaddafi 'sson warned that if protests continued there would be 'rivers of blood '. Gaddafi had reportedly armed militiamen to kill protestors. The UN Human Rights Council condemned Gaddafi 's actions and expelled Libya outright. The UN Security Council passed a further resolution in March (with a 10-0 vote and five abstentions) to allow member states to establish a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent Gaddafi bombing his own cities. The resolution allowed member states to use "all necessary measures" to prevent civilians being killed. Gaddafi declared a cease-fire, but did not keep to it.

Protest broke out in Libya which is the second largest city, Benghazi, to protest freedom, civil rights and the ousting of Qaddaffi. To corner Qaddafi, the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions against Libya that included arms embargo and many assets were frozen, in which the U.N. Council referred Libya to the International Criminal Court for investigation of crimes against humanity (www.cnn.com). But amazingly Qaddafi did not want to

For years in Libya, there has been a very corrupt government. There was a dictator in power, his name was Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi. This lasted from the years of 1969 to 2011. His dictatorship and

Once in power, Gaddafi’s support for terrorism, supplied by Libyan people, led to global dislike and disdain for this new leader.

I will like to share a brief history of Muammar al-Qaddafi. Qaddafi was born in a Bedouin tent in Sirte, Libya. He joined the military and staged a coup to seize the control of Libya in 1969, he ruled the country for forty-two years before he was eventually killed on August 20, 2011, by the rebels during the battle of Sirte. During Qaddafi regime, even though the country had an extremely bad foreign relation because he went to war with many of the neighboring countries but when it comes to the good economy, Libya cannot be ignored. Libya under Qaddafi was so organized that none of the citizens had an intention of going abroad. Qaddafi was named a dictatorship due to the way he monopolized the economy of the country, the way he restrains the citizen from challenging his authority, free of speech was prohibited and he only made the decisions. Even though the citizens all saw this, but they accepted him as their leader because they had a high standard living condition. In 2009/2010, America under President Barack Obama intervened in the way he ruled the country and they finally supported the rebel and gave them the edge to overthrown and eliminate Muammar al-Qaddafi. Immediately after his death, everything about the country got reversed and the economy dramatically went bad. The people of Libya who are said to have a high standard of living now live in abject poverty. This was so bad that

The Libya Conflict that erupted on March 19th 2011. The United States was actively seen as a ‘’World Policemen” in enforcing peace in Libya through democracy which is the United States main goal to promote.

Libya is an African country that is also being victimized by people of their own country. Libya was involved in a civil war that began in 2011. The war was fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and those seeking to overthrow the government. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was a Libyan politician and revolutionary. In August of 2011, the rebels forced an attack on the government in an

The United Nations take full responsibility for “... the complete restoration of law and order in the Republic of the Congo would effectively contribute to the maintenance of international peace” . This was the beginning of the many resolutions that would occur throughout the years of the intervention.

Compared to the Rwanda Genocide and the Humanitarian crises in Darfur, the United Nations reaction to Libya’s case was powerful and significant. For the first time all the pillars of the Responsibility to Protect were put into practice. Meaning that, if the troubled State is incapable or not disposed to protect its citizens, “the State and the

This documentary follows the events that have occurred in Egypt’s government and civilian lives since the beginning of year 2011 and the documentary ends in the summer of 2013. Protests erupt and occur for almost three weeks. The President at the time, President Mubarak, stepped down, handed over power to military, suspended the constitution, and disbanded the parliament. “The army and the people, hand in hand” became a hopeful chant that the military had no interest in, showing the people this when they crushed another protest. Not too long after this, civilians were taken to the Egyptian Museum. There they were tortured, some taken too military courts and prisons. A few months later, a Christian protest was broken up by armored vehicles

The crisis in Libya came from the wider spread of unrest throughout the Northern parts of Africa and the Middle East. This crisis stemmed from ongoing pro-democracy protests that had been going on throughout a zone that had been under a very long authoritarian rule in all political aspects (Shah, 2011).

Several problems surrounding the basis of humanitarian intervention and RtoP were highlighted with the US and NATO led intervention in Libya. The first major issue with humanitarian intervention is determining if it’s justified on the basis that the government is actually guilty of the crimes it’s alleged of committing. The premise that Gaddafi initiated the violence and attacked peaceful protesters analogous to those in Tunisia and Egypt was false. Furthermore, it was indeed the armed rebels that initiated the conflict and turned the uprisings to violence. It was then falsely reported that the Libyan government responded with lethal force, when in fact

In June of 2011, the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court issued three arrest warrants for individuals accused of human rights violations during that spring: Moammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and Abdullah al-Senussi. In the aftermath of the rebel victory, opposition forces captured and killed Moammar Gaddafi on 20 October 2011, thus terminating the ICC investigations against him (Dicker, 2013). However the cases of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah Senussi have remained in contention. The National Transitional Council (NTC), the temporary governing body of Libya, has appealed the admissibility of ICC jurisdiction in the cases against Gaddafi and Senussi in the ICC’s pre-trial Chamber. On 11 October 2013, the pre-trial chamber judges at the ICC issued their determination that the case of Abdullah al-Senussi was inadmissible before the Court (Bensouda, 2013). The Libyan government, in other words, have proved that they are ‘willing and able’ to pursue an investigation against Senussi and the ICC terminated its investigation.