Is there anything like African Union? AU is an association of African haters and looters and should be BOMBED ALONGSIDE GADDAFI

na2day!:

We all agree that Ghadaffi brought this on his own pate, we should also understand that the west is infact  jumping into this fray cos of their thirst for oil, Pls forget d humanitarian excuse they are proffering! Al Bashir's supporter of APC reduced d population of south Sudan and no tomahawk breaks their airspace.
The main architect of this present debacle in d making, Britain and France are looking for a regime change, especially Britain, remember it was same Britain dat made a deal with Ghaddaffi for oil exploration in exchange for d betrayal of d lockerbie victims cry from d grave for justice (also giving up d main accused without finishing his sentence),  same Britain was d first to send special forces (SAS) to meet wit d rebels for oil blocks negotiation and were promptly arrested and deported.
They panicked when ghaddaffi arrived at the gate of bengazi. of course, they know if ghaddaffi wins this one, dats their end in libya.
,  and someone says dis battle is for humanity and not oil, smh  

I rest my case
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1. The government of sudan came out not only to tell the world that it has no association or connection with the supporter of APC but that it was going to figtht it. The mostly condemned the sudan government for not protecting the people of south sudan. In the case at hand is a different case.

2. The British special force that was send to Libya were arrested by the rebels and not the govenment in Tripoli. Their release was negotiated with the rebels and the subsequently deported them.

African Union demands 'immediate' halt to Libya attacks AFP – A Libyan woman shouts slogans against strongman Moamer Kadhafi during a demonstration in front of the …
– Sat Mar 19, 9:55 pm ET

NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) – The African Union's panel on Libya Sunday called for an "immediate stop" to all attacks after the United States, France and Britain launched military action against Moamer Kadhafi's forces.

After a more than four-hour meeting in the Mauritanian capital, the body also asked Libyan authorities to ensure "humanitarian aid to those in need," as well as the "protection of foreigners, including African expatriates living in Libya."

It underscored the need for "necessary political reforms to eliminate the causes of the present crisis" but at the same time called for "restraint" from the international community to avoid "serious humanitarian consequences."

The panel also announced a meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on March 25, along with representatives from the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Conference, the European Union and the United Nations to "put in place a mechanism for consultation and concerted action" to resolve the Libyan crisis.

The AU committee on Libya is composed of five African heads of state. But the Nouakchott meeting was only attended by the presidents of Mauritania, Mali and Congo. South Africa and Uganda were represented by ministers.

The committee said it had been unable to get international permission to visit Tripoli on Sunday but did not elaborate.

Libyan generosity and Moamer Kadhafi's role in the creation of the African Union could explain the continental cautious stand, experts said.

The AU was born in the 1999 Sirte Declaration, named after a summit hosted by Kadhafi in his hometown on the Libyan coast.

The declaration said its authors felt inspired by Kadhafi's "vision for a strong and united Africa."

"The AU as an organisation has benefited significantly from Kadhafi's wealth," said Fred Golooba Mutebi of the Institute of Social Research at Kampala's Makerere University.

The pan-African body has taken a firmer stance on three west African crises: most recently Ivory Coast and previously Guinea and Niger.

Handouts aside, Libya has invested billions of dollars in sub-Saharan Africa.

It has interests in more than two dozen African countries, while its petroleum refining and distribution unit Oil Libya has interests in at least as many.

The African Union had spoken like Africans, full of corruption, greed, selfishness and had exhibited a high level of foolishness. The action of African Union clearly shows while the people of Ruwanda, Liberia, Burundi, Seria Leon and so on massacred themselves when the international world refused to intervene on time how has the AU been able to solve the Ivory Coast crisis? and Gbabo has started killing his people, if not for the intervention of the same UN. Is it because Gaddafi pivoted the forming of the AU that he should be allowed to kill his own people? Oil or no oil it was a right thing to do. The same thing was done in kosovo, Iraq

Are the Africans thinking with their elbows as opposed to their brains? This intervention is lawful and appropriate.

@ O.J Onuh

Why are u posting the same thing over and over again?

The AU has been very vocal in the Ivory Coast issue.I'm surprised you are even insinuating that they did/are doing nothing. The tragedy of what is going on in Ivory Coast is due to the interference of the EU and UN in the elections. I am shocked at your statement. You are Igbo as am I. You should be aware that the same thing the the "international community" a.k.a. western powers are doing in Ivory Coast and Libya is the same thing they did to us during the civil war which caused millions of us to die. You should be ashamed of yourself. Were the "rebels" helped then by the west? Please open your eyes.

Above is Crappiest thing I ever read on this thread. If you don't know what's going on Zip it and quit comparing the Nigerian Civil  War with the Lybian Situation.

Well, I believe everyone has his own opinion on what is happening in Libya, but some facts need to be ironed out,
1. The Libyan People held peacefull protest againt their President
2. Ghadaffi initiated attacks on his people, killing a lot of them using Millitary means including airstrikes against peacefull protesters.
3. The People started an armed revolt against him and he threatened to punish them. He said he will 'have no mercy'

The question we should ask ourseleves is that what would we do if we were in the shoes of the UN. After pleading with someone to implement a ceasefire, and he promises to ceasefire but ample evidence shows that he is still shelling his people.With the imminent slaughter of innocent people, what do you expect the UN to do, what would u do if you were in the shoes of the UN.

The issue of Bosnia, Zimbabwe or Rwanda should not be an issue here. if you can convince yourself that you would sit and do nothing in this case then u can criticize the UN.

I really want to appreciate you for bringing out these facts. It clearly shows that you are following the not just the Libyan crisis but what is happening all around the Arab Nation. It is also important to not that the people of Libya and the Arab League that first called  NU intervention. Allow Him to kill his people in the name of sovereignty. In 1994 the world was accused for the genocide in Ruwanda not because it was responsible for the killings but because it did not intervene when it sould have intervened. The man is inhuman. He called his people protesting peacefully as terrorist. In my opinion is a long awaited response.

This one from Bechex is a more sensible post.

I think you lots need to off your Tell-a-lie-Vision, America/France/UK are the ones supplying the middle east the weapons they are using in the first place, They are their for business purpose, Don't get it twisted they left Rwandans to die, Where were they when Omar Bashir was killing over 2Million Black Africans in their own country?

This is a war they need to create with the help of the media, the economy is bursted already so they need war to make money and if you dint know how that is possible then you should ask yourself why a bank like Barclays bank manufacture weapons.Its a loose loose situation for the people of Libya.

We should all seek caution, this was the lies they told us all before they overthrown kwame nkrumah, history is repeating itself here, the french killed  one of the best leader Africa could ever produce in Thomas Sankara.

Dont ever believe anything untill its officially denied

History we judge us all, Bless scholars

I think they have stopped the amunition supply

deji.ariyo:
I think you lots need to off your Tell-a-lie-Vision, America/France/UK are the ones supplying the middle east the weapons they are using in the first place, They are their for business purpose, Don't get it twisted they left Rwandans to die, Where were they when Omar Bashir was killing over 2Million Black Africans in their own country?This is a war they need to create with the help of the media, the economy is bursted already so they need war to make money and if you dint know how that is possible then you should ask yourself why a bank like Barclays bank manufacture weapons.Its a loose loose situation for the people of Libya.We should all seek caution, this was the lies they told us all before they overthrown kwame nkrumah, history is repeating itself here, the french killed  one of the best leader Africa could ever produce in Thomas Sankara.Dont ever believe anything untill its officially denied
History we judge us all, Bless scholars

Rubbish!! who started this crisis? The West?  The west did not force the weapons on them, its business, every sovereign country have the right to acquire guns that doesn't mean that it should be used to kill their own pple. We Africans are just too greedy and corrupt, we rather kill our own pple than step down when pple demand for a change.  Who in his right mind stay in power for 40yrs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?  When it comes to charity we take our begging plate to the West when it comes to human right we cry imperialism

What has AU done since this crisis started??

@Justwise,you've just said the right thing, i tell you some Africans are too bad.

~Bluetooth:

There was never slavery in africa until it was commercialised by the europeans.

Shame on you for this statement.

Read this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade

An excerpt

Trans-Saharan trade

The very earliest external slave trade was the trans-Saharan slave trade[/b]. Although there had long been some trading up the Nile River and very limited trading across the western desert, the transportation of large numbers of slaves did not become viable until camels were introduced from Arabia in the 10th century. By this point, a trans-Saharan trading network came into being to transport slaves north. Zanzibar was once East Africa's main slave-trading port, and under Omani Arabs in the 19th century as many as 50,000 slaves were passing through the city each year.[30][31] [b]Most historians estimate that between 11 and 18 million African slaves crossed the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert from 650 AD to 1900 AD

@Justwise exactly

justwise:

Rubbish!! who started this crisis? The West?  The west did not force the weapons on them, its business, every sovereign country have the right to acquire guns that doesn't mean that it should be used to kill their own pple. We Africans are just too greedy and corrupt, we rather kill our own pple than step down when pple demand for a change.  Who in his right mind stay in power for 40yrs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?  When it comes to charity we take our begging plate to the West when it comes to human right we cry imperialism

What has AU done since this crisis started??

Take it easy bro, You cant say all what i typed earlier is rubbish, You can tell me its coincidence that 53 African countries cant get things right, Fela knew what was going on and that was why he did the song "Basket Mouth" where he dissed the United Nation, The Imperialist Nations are the one who put most of this dictators into power e.g Mumbarak but you only see their wrath when you go against them, Do you remember the 1986 libya bombing where Gaddafi's daughter was killed during the bombing? common Gaddafi did not become a dictator two weeks ago.

I am not supporting Gaddafi but where is Blair and Bush the two warlords that invaded Iraq ilegally even against the will of the UNITED NATIONS?

But thiis is the approval of UN,not against.

deji.ariyo:

Take it easy bro, You cant say all what i typed earlier is rubbish, You can tell me its coincidence that 53 African countries cant get things right, Fela knew what was going on and that was why he did the song "Basket Mouth" where he dissed the United Nation, The Imperialist Nations are the one who put most of this dictators into power e.g Mumbarak but you only see their wrath when you go against them, Do you remember the 1986 libya bombing where Gaddafi'sughter was killed during the bombing? common Gaddafi did not become a dictator two weeks ago.

I am not supporting Gaddafi but where is Blair and Bush the two warlords that invaded Iraq ilegally even against the will of the UNITED NATIONS?

This got nothing to do with Bush and Blair, the action is backed by UN, the West can't solve the whole world problem only, if they do nothing dam it! if they do dam! what have we Africans done for ourselves? You don't expect the West to invest their money. time and lives of their minitary men amd women all the time for nothing. Talk shop is all we get from AU, no action, just hot air.

For once the AU is doing the right thing.

justwise:

This got nothing to do with Bush and Blair, the action is backed by UN, the West can't solve the whole world problem only, if they do nothing dam it! if they do dam! what have we Africans done for ourselves? You don't expect the West to invest their money. time and lives of their minitary men amd women all the time for nothing. Talk shop is all we get from AU, no action, just hot air.

Tell me one single country America has invaded and brought change in favour of the citizens of the said Nation??

deji.ariyo:

Tell me one single country America has invaded and brought change in favour of the citizens of the said Nation??

What has the above to do with

a) The discussion?

b) What was said in the piece you are supposedly responding to?

Kobojunkie:

What has the above to do with

a) The discussion?

b) What was said in the piece you are supposedly responding to?

?? This is ongoing discussion and am i talking to one person with many IDs? , I asked a question and i do have a reason for that, thanks

hmmm lets see. support a bunch of people who loots their countries and whose children buy 400 million dollar yachts while the avg citizen lives in abject penury

or support a bunch of people who steal from developing countries but share the wealth generously amongst its indigenes (including africans who live amongst them)

the lesser of the two evils. bomb ghaddafiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh   GO WESTTTTTTTTTT

Men are most of you just plain stupid or what, most of you just talk without thinking am sorry to be insulting you guys but God have had it up to my head level, JESUS, first of all what Gaddafi has done is wrong don't get me wrong but if you think the western world is getting involved because they want to free people from Libya you are f--king sick, the same western world that went to Iraqi to destroy the weapons of mass destruction which till today we are yet to see, the only thing we see is there companies going there to get contracts to rebuild what they have destroyed, there companies taking oil and putting in a government that would allow them do whatever they want, there has been on going fights in order parts of Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKG9kJeLxP8
why are they not there why Libya simple because of the oil, so open your eyes before you open your mouth

deji.ariyo:

Tell me one single country America has invaded and brought change in favour of the citizens of the said Nation??

Keep ranting about America, lets talk about African prob, what are we doing for ourserlves? What has AU done since this crisis started in Tunisia?  Leave American out of this

justwise:

Keep ranting about America, lets talk about African prob, what are we doing for ourserlves? What has AU done since this crisis started in Tunisia?  Leave American out of this

Bro am not going to stop talking about America cos they are involve in this invasion and you gladly supporting them, So just give me one single country their invasion has done good for its citizen, please

4real:

Men are most of you just plain silly or what, most of you just talk without thinking am sorry to be insulting you guys but God have had it up to my head level, JESUS, first of all what Gaddafi has done is wrong don't get me wrong but if you think the western world is getting involved because they want to free people from Libya you are f--king sick, the same western world that went to Iraqi to destroy the weapons of mass destruction which till today we are yet to see, the only thing we see is there companies going there to get contracts to rebuild what they have destroyed, there companies taking oil and putting in a government that would allow them do whatever they want, there has been on going fights in order parts of Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKG9kJeLxP8
why are they not there why Libya simple because of the oil, so open your eyes before you open your mouth

conspiracy theory.

how him go talk because he has nothing to say,

Pls AU should stay clear. When people were dying they did not talk.

@justwise am use you have cnn if you dont they have a website www.cnn.com or www.bbc.co.uk, you need to read more or better still mention one country the us or its friends has gone to that they dont have oil, am not against the us as a country dont get me wrong am just against the war that will kill innocent lives because of there selfish need how are they different from Gaddafi

4real:

Men are most of you just plain silly or what, most of you just talk without thinking am sorry to be insulting you guys but God have had it up to my head level, JESUS, first of all what Gaddafi has done is wrong don't get me wrong but if you think the western world is getting involved because they want to free people from Libya you are f--king sick, the same western world that went to Iraqi to destroy the weapons of mass destruction which till today we are yet to see, the only thing we see is there companies going there to get contracts to rebuild what they have destroyed, there companies taking oil and putting in a government that would allow them do whatever they want, there has been on going fights in order parts of Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKG9kJeLxP8
why are they not there why Libya simple because of the oil, so open your eyes before you open your mouth

bruv you have to get over your myopia. you are very short sighted. i recommend an ophthalmologic dr. you have to look at the bigger picture here. wealth is useless if concentrated in one hand. this is what obtains in africa. this is why we are all dying in abject squalor, penury and poverty. if it takes an ogre to go in and liberate that wealth from the hands of that one person and then spread it around ? it is good for the world. you have to get over your ego sometimes. let me ask you this, how many rich africans live in america and europe ? how many african scientists and professors and nurses and doctors are paid gazzilions of dollars in the west ? tens of millions. these people would have been in abject penury in their own african countries. so let the ogre go in and steal the wealth from the hogging african kleptocrats and then spread the wealth around. BIGGER PICTURE, EGO ASIDE.  

THESE MILLIONS OF AFRICANS IN THE WEST MAKE THAT MONEY BACK AND THEN SEND SOME TO THEIR POOR RELATIVES IN NIGERIA. HENCE WEALTH FINDS ITS WAY BACK TO THE POOR IN AFRICA FROM THE THIEVES IN AFRICA. ITS A NECESSARY CYCLE. THE 'OGRE' IS NEEDED TO DO THE STEALING.

deji.ariyo:

Bro am not going to stop talking about America cos they are involve in this invasion and you gladly supporting them, So just give me one single country they their invasion has done good for its citizen, please

Is America  invading  Libya now? America refused to get involved untill the UN sactioned it. Is not America that started shelling innocent Libyans, its not America that used African mercenaries to slaughter his own pple. I ask again: What has the AU done when all these were going on?

i can't help but feel that the reporting around libya makes me feel real nervous. i see a whole lot of agenda and with it misinformation too

Anyway am done with this thread cos i have seen some people on here disrespecting each other and i guess that is why Africans cant have simple argument wihtout resulting to abuse, Bless you all

justwise:

Is America  invading  Libya now? America refused to get involved untill the UN sactioned it. Is not America that started shelling innocent Libyans, its not America that used African mercenaries to slaughter his own pple. I ask again: What has the AU done when all these were going on?

Still dodging my question, anyway am done with this, bless you

4real:

@justwise am use you have cnn if you dont they have a website www.cnn.com or www.bbc.co.uk, you need to read more or better still mention one country the us or its friends has gone to that they dont have oil, am not against the us as a country dont get me wrong am just against the war that will kill innocent lives because of there selfish need how are they different from Gaddafi

You are not making any sense, u are against war but u don't see anything wrong with Libyan govt killing his own pple. Lets top blaming America and face our prob.