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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