Mogadishu (24/10/2011) - Since the change of military tactics by Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen on the 6th of August 2011, the battle for Mogadishu has taken on an entirely new dimension. The recent battles have lured the AU forces, who previously sought refuge behind their heavily fortified bases and underground bunkers, out into the open; thereby exposing their intense vulnerabilities and proving their inability to fight in an urban area.
The massacre of more than 150 Burundian troops in the battle of Dayniile, Northern Mogadishu, on Thursday 20th October marked the success of the Mujahideen's enhanced military strategy and stands as a true testament to the diversified military operations raging in Mogadishu.
And while the media, both local and international, have recorded the video footage of the 76 slain Burundian soldiers displayed by the Mujahideen, complete in their AU uniform and badges, AMISOM propagandists chose to deny the deaths of their own comrades in order to mislead the families of the dead soldiers.
The recent Mogadishu massacre is indeed exemplary of the unforgiving fate that awaits every foreign invader in Mogadishu, but our message is now specific to the people of Burundi.
Your sons continue to perpetrate unspeakable atrocities against our innocent families in Somalia. And despite our persistent demands for the withdrawal of your troops, you remain obliviously adamant that your sons are serving a just cause by killing thousands of innocent men, women and children. The indiscriminate shelling carried out by your troops has displaced over a million people from their homes and has rendered them refugees in their own country.
Half of our children do not attend schools as your troops continue to demolish and destroy our buildings and infrastructure. And in the course of these battles, hundreds of your sons have been killed in Mogadishu while fighting as mercenaries for a worthless cause and some are still being held captive.
The recent deaths of your sons in Mogadishu serve as a just reward for the carnage that they have caused in the streets of Mogadishu and their corpses are now rotting in a distant land without even a funeral ceremony. Know that the indomitable people of Mogadishu will continue to massacre your troops as long as the streets of Mogadishu remain steeped in the blood of their loved ones.
You now have a choice to make. Either you call for the immediate withdrawal of your troops from our country or you shall receive the bodies of your remaining sons delivered to you in bags. Think long. Think hard. Think of your son's futures.
United Nations (CNN) – The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to end military operations in Libya. The council adopted a resolution that rescinded its mandate for military intervention in Libya, effectively canceling the NATO mission there as of Monday. Libya’s interim leaders declared their nation liberated last Sunday after the capture and death of deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
“Today, in a sense we are completing a sequence which was started by the vote of Resolution 1973 when the international community decided to act to prevent Gadhafi from slaughtering his own people,” said Gerard Araud, the French ambassador to the United Nations. “During the seven months that have followed, we have seen dramatic events where the Libyan people have succeeded to free themselves with the support of NATO.”
In March, the council adopted Resolution 1973, which imposed a no-fly zone in the country’s airspace and authorized member states “to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack in the country … while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory.”
There were no opposing votes on the 15-member council, but China, Russia, Germany, India and Brazil abstained. Germany said it was concerned about a protracted military conflict.
In ending the mandate Thursday, the Security Council expressed concern at the proliferation of arms in Libya and said it intends to address that issue further. The resolution also expressed “grave concern about continuing reports of reprisals, arbitrary detentions, wrongful imprisonment and extrajudicial executions.”
Last week, U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, commander of NATO’s military forces, recommended that NATO wrap up its mission in Libya by October 31. NATO ministers gave preliminary approval to that plan.
But U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said this week that Libya’s National Transitional Council wanted NATO to stick around until it could establish governance.
However, Libyan Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi told the 15-member council Wednesday that the Libyan people were looking forward to ending the NATO mission.
While Libyans were grateful for the international community’s support, he said, such measures felt like an infringement of Libya’s sovereignty.
The relatives of former Libyan leader will file a suit to the International Criminal Court against NATO forces’ “war crime” - the deliberate killing of Muammar Gaddafi, their lawyer Marcel Ceccaldi has reportedly said. The relatives are aware of the circumstances of the killing, RIA Novosti said, citing a report on the French station, Europe 1. The convoy Gaddafi was moving in “posed no threat to civilians,” and it was rather “an operation to eliminate the Libyan leader, planned by the alliance,” the lawyer was quoted as saying.
And also an unknown source from one African Union member-country quoted by saying "that the African Union will support Gaddafi's family to filled a war crime lawsuit against NATO and Libya's NTC government".
Libyan leader's wife says she's proud of courage displayed by husband, Syrian TV reports; UN concerned Gaddafi may have been executed. A television station based in Syria that supported Muammar Gaddafi said on Friday that the slain Libyan leader's wife has asked for a United Nations investigation into his death.
The wife of Gaddafi "asks the United Nations to investigate the death of the fighter Muammar and Mo'tassim," Arrai television said in a news headline, referring to one of Gaddafi's sons as well. The headline also said Gaddafi's wife was proud of her husband's courage and her children who, it said, stood up to 40 countries and their agents throughout six months and considered them to be martyrs.
The United Nations human rights office called on Friday had already called for a full investigation into the death of Gaddafi and voiced concerns that he may have been executed.
Paraded: Bystanders watch over Gaddafi's body as it lies in a storage freezer in Misrata
Images filmed on mobile phones before and after Gaddafi's death showed him wounded and bloodied but clearly alive after his capture in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, and then dead amidst a jostling crowd of anti-Gaddafi fighters.
"There's a lot of uncertainty about what happened exactly. There seem to be four or five different versions of how he died," UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told Reuters Television in an interview.
"If you take these two videos together, they are rather disturbing because you see someone who has been captured alive and then you see the same person dead.
"We are not in a position to say what has happened at this point but we feel that it is very important that this is clarified, that there is some sort of serious investigation into what happened and what caused his death," he said.
Asked whether the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay was concerned Gaddafi may have been executed while in captivity, Colville replied: "It has to be one possibility when you look at these two videos. So that's something that an investigation needs to look into."
Gaddafi's body lay in an old meat store on Friday as arguments swirled over his burial and the circumstances of his death.
With a bullet wound visible through the familiar curly hair, the corpse shown to Reuters in Misrata bore other marks of the violent end to a violent life that was being broadcast to the world in snatches of grainy, gory cellphone video.
On Oct 20, 2011, Libya's ex-leader and African strong warrior- hero Col. Muammar Gaddafi was captured and unlawfully killed by the hands of the NATO backed now Libya legitimacy government ( Libya's National Transitional Council- NTC). BeeAfrican Networks look back on some of the greatest movements of Col. Muammar Gaddafi 's regime included the World most powerful man and African greatest hero of all time Nelson Mandela calling the late Col. Muammar Gaddafi (May Allah Bless Him) "My Brother Leader" in his 2007 speech.
A grandson of Nelson Mandela is named Gadaffi - a sign of how popular the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi once was in South Africa and many other African countries.
Nelson Mandela's Honored Muammar Gaddafi:
"I shall therefore take the liberty to invite our guests to rise and raise their glasses with me in salute to Muammar Gaddafi, our Brother Leader of the Revolution of the Libyan Jamahariya"
South Africa (Zuma) said that the NATO-backed revolt has undermined the "African Union's efforts and initiatives to handle the situation in Libya." Mandela made a high-profile visit to Libya in 1997 when he presented the colonel with South Africa's highest award, the Order of Good Hope.
Nelson Mandela once said:
"Those who feel irritated by our friendship with President Gaddafi can go jump in the pool".
It was pure expediency to call on democratic South Africa to turn its back on Libya and Gaddafi, who had assisted us in obtaining democracy at a time when those who now made that call were the friends of the enemies of democracy in South Africa.
Had we heeded those demands, we would have betrayed the very values and attitudes that allowed us as a nation to have adversaries sitting down and negotiating in a spirit of compromise. It would have meant denying that the South African experience could be a model and example for international behaviour. More
Issued by the Office of the President, June 13 1999
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A LUNCHEON IN HONOUR OF MUAMAR QADDAFI, LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION OF THE LIBYAN JAMAHARIYA, Cape Town, 13 June 1999
Mogadishu (24/10/2011) - Since the change of military tactics by Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen on the 6th of August 2011, the battle for Mogadishu has taken on an entirely new dimension. The recent battles have lured the AU forces, who previously sought refuge behind their heavily fortified bases and underground bunkers, out into the open; thereby exposing their intense vulnerabilities and proving their inability to fight in an urban area.
It has become known that several days before his killing, Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gaddafi left a will.
United Nations (CNN) – The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to end military operations in Libya. The council adopted a resolution that rescinded its mandate for military intervention in Libya, effectively canceling the NATO mission there as of Monday. Libya’s interim leaders declared their nation liberated last Sunday after the capture and death of deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
The relatives of former Libyan leader will file a suit to the International Criminal Court against NATO forces’ “war crime” - the deliberate killing of Muammar Gaddafi, their lawyer Marcel Ceccaldi has reportedly said. The relatives are aware of the circumstances of the killing, RIA Novosti said, citing a report on the French station, Europe 1. The convoy Gaddafi was moving in “posed no threat to civilians,” and it was rather “an operation to eliminate the Libyan leader, planned by the alliance,” the lawyer was quoted as saying.
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