Democracy in Action: 7 Years Ago Libya Was Blown to Pieces in the Name of Liberal Values


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On September 10th, the office of National Oil Corporation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli was attacked by a group of armed people.

On September 10th, the office of National Oil Corporation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli was attacked by a group of armed people. There was an explosion. As a result, two people died on the spot, dozens were injured. Two days later, the only operating international airport in the country, Mitiga, was attacked. Witnesses reported explosions and shootings around the airport. No information about casualties has been provided. The capital of Tripoli is cut off from the outside world.

Seven years ago, today — in September 2011 — the Western coalition supported by the United States, bombed the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya with the French and the English Air Force. A prosperous country with the fastest GDP growth among the countries of the Arab Maghreb was destroyed, as they say, for the sake of democracy. The Leader of the country, Muammar Gaddafi, was killed. Rebels were supported, the country was turned into a hotbed of terrorism.

 

Libya used to be a buffer for refugees, now it is their main supplier to Europe. Nowadays, slave-trade is prospering in Libya. The reports horrified the whole world. The country is divided into three centers of power.

Fayez Mustafa Al-Sarraj, prime minister of the Government of National Accord, is now in Tripoli. He has been recognized by the UN and the European Union. Last December he was in the White House. Officially, his mandate expired a year ago. He does not have military power. Aguila Saleh Issa, President of the Libyan House of Representatives, is in Tobruk. His official term has expired, too. The third and probably the most powerful center of power is Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar, the head of the Libyan National Army. His forces control the East of the country. They stand for the secular way of Libya's development. Haftar is supported by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and the Arab League. A graduate of a Russian military college, the Marshal speaks Russian.

It is a time of chaos and injustice in the country. Lybia's major territory is up for grabs for ISIS terrorists, Al Qaeda's militia members, and for all other sorts of criminals. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, thinks that Russia saved Syria from such a scenario. It's hard to disagree.

Maria Zakharova: "I'd like to say that this is a clear and very tragic example of an absolute fiasco of the Western countries in their attempt of geopolitical modeling. A world-scale modeling that, no doubt, has influenced the entire region of the Middle East and North Africa and that has simply destroyed, annihilated Lybia's statehood. Lybia's scenario is something that had been expected to occur in Syria if it weren't for the support provided to the legitimate government by the Russian Federation after Damascus' respective request".