Tragic Libyan NATO agenda exposed

The brief visit of then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Libya in October 2011 was referred to by the media as a “victory lap.” “We came, we saw, he died!” Hillary Clinton crowed in a CBS video interview on hearing of the capture and brutal murder of Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Libya was relegated to the back burner by the State Department, “as the country dissolved into chaos, leading to a civil war that would destabilise the region, fueling the refugee crisis in Europe and allowing the Islamic State to establish a Libyan haven that the United States is now desperately trying to contain.

US-NATO intervention was allegedly undertaken on humanitarian grounds, after reports of mass atrocities, but human rights organisations questioned the claims after finding lack of evidence.

Editor's Comment
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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