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It has been 6 months since the intervention in Libya started under the premise of saving the Libyan people from Gaddafi who was said to be on the edge of Benghazi with the intention of massacring his people. At the time of the intervention there was no evidence of this. In fact, and his troops had marched all the way from Tripoli across the desert and put out protest without massacring the people on their way to Benghazi. In fact there was another massacre not often talked about. Namely, there was a massacre of poor unarmed African immigrants by the rebels under the fa�ade that they were mercenaries, a fact never proven with any empirical evidence. Thus, it must be asked, what really prompted this intervention? Was it really to save the Libyans? I am of the belief that the intervention was mainly to enrich the west by creating a war in a prosperous country in order to get oil wealth and new contracts to help rebuild after NATO bombs had blown up the infrastructure. The Libyan Rebels have no integrity. How did the revolution start in Libya? Some would say it started with protests but, in my humble opinion it started with the lie that there were �African mercenaries� imported en masse to kill Libyans. The question must be asked, of all the stories the Rebels could have come up with why choose the poor Africans who, like most immigrants, were often doing the jobs that most Libyans would not do? The answer simply is the Rebels knew that the one thing that would unite the people of Benghazi in fury was a story that Africans were killing Libyans! After all, to them the other Africans were the people that they were unhappy to have in their country! Not the over 1 million Asians, or the European tourists but the poor African immigrants! Out of nowhere these so called �Peaceful protestors� had guns and were chasing around any unarmed person who look to be from Sub-Saharan Africa! There were massive arrest and even killing of poor unarmed people. Source: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01836/Libya_1836406b.jpg Source: http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/03/01/69858-suspected-african-mercenaries-held-by-anti-government-protesters-stand.jpg Source: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110225-libya-mercenaries-hmed-1030a.photoblog600.jpg Source: http://www.thelondoneveningpost.com/africa/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Libyan-rebels-hold-a-capture-African-mercinary-in-Mesirathii-300x180.jpg Some even went out of their way to post youtube videos of what were obviously economic immigrants and presented them as mercenaries! The story was very sophomoric but, it seemed the world community bought it so easily. More likely this was largely due to the dehumanization of the African, especially the Sub-Saharan African, for centuries and which still continues today� It must be noted that there were some people of integrity who caught on to the lie. Human Rights Watch a credible organization clearly came out and said there were was no evidence of mercenaries who had been brought to Libyans! Source: http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/hrw-no-mercenaries-eastern-libya-0 The Sad thing is many people were killed by these so called �Democracy seekers�. This included in excess of 70 Chadian in only one day. In fact, Turkish construction worker told the BBC: that and I quote �We had seventy to eighty people from Chad working for our company. They were massacred with pruning shears and axes, accused by the attackers of being Gaddafi�s troops. The Sudanese people were massacred. We saw it for ourselves.� �!!! Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/rebe-m31.shtml Massacred based on a lie! 70 in one day from one company! Massacred because of the color of their Skin! No trial, unarmed, no mercy, no inquisitive question like perhaps(where is your gun mercenary?)! Nope! Nothing! Just kill the poor unarmed guy! Democracy indeed!! In fact, one has to wonder about the many News organizations who reported on this story! It would seem at the beginning of the revolution many did not even understand the demographics of the country! Libya�s Army had a good number of Black people in it and the Native Blacks of Libya make up 10-20 percent of the population. Thus, why did the �Democracy lovers� proceed to kill unsuspecting Black Libyan Soldiers who spoke the Libyan language sent to restore order? Why would they call Black Libyan Soldiers and Black Libyans foreign mercenaries? Warning some may be Graphic. Source: http://afrol.com/images/symbols/liy_mercenary_doc.jpg Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5c2j78ZX8w Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s91AvXP2XQ&skipcontrinter=1 It is pretty obvious to anyone following this that the Rebels are not innocent people but, many are blood thirty thugs who took the opportunity to attempt ethnic cleansing of the Black Libyan tribes. Some even called themselves �the brigade for purging slaves, black skin. Source: http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/07/07/libya-ethnic-cleansing/ What started out as a clearly anti-Black movement later turned into an opportunity to kill Libyan who did not agree with the Rebel ideology. This even included beheadings!!! Warning Graphic Source: http://www.obamaslibya.com/ Were these people really fighting for freedom as the western media has portrayed or are they radical thuggish Islamist who enjoys killing unarmed civilians and those who don�t agree with them! Luckily Atta Mills took the initiative to get Ghanaians out of Liyba before it got very ugly and he must be commended for that. Atta Mills got 18,000 unarmed Ghanaians out of Libya the highest evacuation of any country in Africa! Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/almost-17-000-ghanaians-evacuated-from-libya-ghana-news-says.html Part 2 The Intervention by NATO: I am certain Western intelligence sources knew the rebels were not credible and had numerous thugs� amongst them but, with no evidence of any credibile threat NATO led by France the UK and USA started a No-Fly-Zone! Shockingly the No-Fly-Zone was requested by the Arab league that did not see it fit to request one for the people of Bahrain, or Yemen who were likewise being killed. Instead, the Arab leave gave a green light to institute a No-Fly-Zone in Libya. It should be noted that Gaddafi was generally not well liked in the Arab league because he had on many occasions belittled other leaders and many must have seen this as a chance to finally get rid of him! They did not do this for Democracy as most still have an absolute monarchy but, due to petty rivalries that exist. The good news for them was the simple fact that the West, especially the countries in the Northern Mediterranean (Europe) had long been after Libya�s resources. Gaddafi had essentially put in place mechanisms which rendered Libya one of the few countries in Africa not being �raped�! If you were digging Libyan resources, Libya was getting the majority of the money, if you offended Libya you got none of Libya�s resources! Common sense stuff but, assertiveness generally not liked in West were Africa is viewed as a backyard to �rape� and mock! Libya essentially was the most free (from external forces interfering in internal affairs) and rich country in Africa! Thus, the opportunity presented itself and the West took it! First it started as a No-Fly-Zone! The propaganda was Gaddafi was going to bomb the people of Benghazi and show no mercy. The problem is there was no evidence of that. As stated earlier Kaddafi�s troops marched from Tripoli to the Edge of Benghazi without committing a massacre in any of the cities they passed through! All the while there was a known Massacre happening in Yemen and Bahrain which was either worse than what was going on in Libya or equivalent at the time of the intervention! Maybe the fact that they are allies played a role in getting over looked because; they were not doing anything different. The big point here is the simple fact that the reasons for the intervention make no sense! What makes sense is the fact that it is an oil grab by the west and has little to do with human rights. The problem is, what started as a No-Fly-Zone, instituted based on what was largely not proven and what has now been proven to be mostly lies turned into a No-Walk-Zone were any Libyan solider who went out to do their job and was spotted by NATO was killed, bombed to death! Now, there are even special forces on the ground searching for Gaddafi Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/08/nato-forces-assist-hunt-for-kadafi.html In fact, overall over 1 billion dollars has been poured into this mission and I can say with the utmost confidence it will be paid back in full times 10 over by the Libyans! In fact, it has already started. There are already discussions about reconstruction. Reconstruction is where the money is! Thus, if you blow it up you can build it back and help failing companies get much needed revenue! Guess which firms are going to benefit? The same ones who were quick to jump to war on shabby excuses and change the mission numerous times!! Source:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-23/eni-lobbies-rebel-leaders-to-maintain-oil-dominance-in-libya-after-qaddafi.html Source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,782359,00.html Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8721283/President-Sarkozy-vows-to-keep-up-Libya-military-operations.html Let me categorically state once again that every country that participated in this bombing either implicitly or explicitly will get paid in full! It is all a game after all to many of these �leaders�! The rules don�t really apply when dealing with countries in African and elsewhere which is why money which was frozen is being handed over to the Rebels� You read that right! A shady armed revolution starts in a country, a make-shift council is put together, and countries that see a benefit jump in and kill what some estimate could be well over 10,000. Then, common sense laws are ignored and state resources are given to a faction in what has been a civil war sustained by NATO! In the end, I feel that Ghana should not recognize the Libyan Rebels because, if this is truly about democracy then, after they have a credible election that would be the time to recognize them. I am not certain they can achieve that with all the arms in the country and the underlying tribalism and other division starting to surface. After all it is always easier to start these things than end them but, it in the end the most important thing for Ghana is to not jump on the bandwagon but, make a decision based on solid empirical evidence and true justice.