Western hypocrisy in Libya

NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011 has justifiably earned its place in history as an indictment of Western foreign policy and a military alliance, which since the collapse of the Soviet Union, has been deployed as the sword of this foreign policy.

The destruction of Libya will forever be an indelible stain on the reputations of those countries and leaders responsible. But now, with the revelation that the people are being sold as slaves in Libya, I find it utterly shocking that in 2017 the slave trade is alive and kicking in Libya.

The  cataclysmic disaster to befall the country has been compounded to the point where it is hard to conceive of it ever being able to recover and certainly not anywhere near its former status as a high development country, as the UN labelled Libya 2010 a year prior to the so called  ‘revolution’.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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