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Rene Beaudin , Special
Le Soleil (Quebec) Thus, Colonel Gaddafi chose to die a martyr rather than be ousted Libya. In fact, he does not give much choice. He is a man for whom there is no forgiveness, for which there will be no forgiveness, and he knows it.
What country, including and especially in the Arab world, Qaddafi wants to host, even in the context of a hypothetical "crisis" after his "green light" explicitly given the carnage that is known in Libya? He is persona non grata par excellence.
"Big Brother Muammar," because this is one of the nicknames he likes to be dressed up, is even more isolated than were its two neighbors, ex-presidents Ben Ali and Mubarak, Tunisia and Egypt, on the eve of their fall.
They finally abandoned the excessive repression or war without thank you, in short, to draw on the people, and threw down the gauntlet. Ben Ali was able to find refuge in Saudi Arabia Mubarak, meanwhile, live happily in Sharm El-Sheikh, in his own country.
Gaddafi himself has designated as a "marked man" for his opponents, the suppression of rare savagery to which its last supporters seem to engage in Tripoli. More than a hundred people injured in recent demonstrations have been slaughtered in cold blood in hospitals in the capital, still under its control. The thing is likely. A previous revolt in 1996 in Libyan prisons, has resulted in the deaths of 1,200 prisoners, killed during the crackdown as such, or revenge after. This tragedy, it is said, has permanently marked the Libyan society.
past champion of the Palestinian cause - at least when he was counting on her to pose as possible leader of the Arab world in whose eyes the same cause is, in principle, a "sacred cause" - Gaddafi has finally turned back when the former leader Yasser Arafat has refused to hunt down and remove its own opponents out of Libya. He then closed the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) of the same Arafat in Tripoli, cut all subsidies previously paid to the same PLO and expelled all its militants.
In 1995, following the signing of the Oslo accords between the PLO and the Israelis, Qaddafi expelled 30,000 Palestinians from Libya to "punish" Arafat.
In September 1970, however, he wanted the herald of those same Palestinians. At the Arab summit in Cairo to discuss the crash while being of the Palestinian resistance by King Hussein of Jordan, Gaddafi had called for the internment then literally the young monarch, his immediate arrest, handcuffed and locked in a straitjacket.
"Only a fool can order to open fire on his own people," thundered the boiling was then Colonel, stating that "they were all crazy in this family," referring to the abdication of the father of Hussein, King Talal, in 1951 for "mental incapacity".
To end this discussion, the summit host, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, half fig, half grape, had proposed that "things are going as they are happening in the Arab world, we will put all under psychiatric observation.
Nasser died a few days later and his suggestion was ignored. This has not prevented 15 or 16 years later, U.S. President Ronald Reagan to appoint Gaddafi as the "mad dog" of the Middle East, and well before the massacre of Libyan prisons or hospitals in Tripoli. What would he say today?
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