In February, 2011, Soliman Bouchuiguir told a lie. It was
a big one. As the head of the Libyan League for Human Rights, Bouchuiguir
initiated a petition that was eventually signed by 70 non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) demanding that the US, EU, and UN “mobilize the United
Nations and the international community and take immediate action to halt the
mass atrocities now being perpetrated by the Libyan government against its own
people.”
The petition invoked the “Responsibility to Protect”
doctrine, a 2005 UN policy shift away from respect for national sovereignty
toward green-lighting “humanitarian intervention,” including with military
force, anywhere human rights are suspected of being violated.
Bouchuiguir’s petition….reported that Libyan leader
Gaddafi was deliberately killing peaceful protestors and innocent bystanders.
He was using snipers to fire on Libyans at random, using helicopter gunships
and fighter jets to attack, and even firing artillery shells into the crowd.
The petition was where we first saw the oft-repeated line that the Gaddafi
regime was employing foreign mercenaries against his own people…..had already
killed 6,000 of his own people and was determined to kill many more. Based on
his testimony and the petition signed by the 70 NGOs, Libya was suspended from
membership in the UN Human Rights Council. On the strength of that suspension
the issue was moved along rapidly to the UN Security Council, where teeth would
soon be put into the campaign for military intervention.
What is behind this human rights NGO? …To Read More….
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