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People Protesting Outside Libyan Embassy in London
The Libyan charge d’affairs was called to the UK Foreign Office and was told the entire diplomatic group must leave. The National Transitional Council was asked to appoint new diplomats. UK follows the example of France and the United States.
Previously, the United Kingdom had stated that it recognized countries not governments. Officials said that this is still the case, given that the recognition of TNC is a political one, not a legal one.
On Wednesday afternoon, the flag of the Libyan regime was still flying on the embassy’s building in London, while supporters of the Libyan rebels were gathered in front of the embassy.
At a press conference, William Hague, UK’s Foreign Minister, said that the Transitional National Council pledged a more open and democratic Libya in contrast with Qaddafi’s regime, whose brutality toward the population stripped it of any legitimacy.
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As a result of this decision, the United Kingdom will now deal with the TNC as with any other government in the world. For that reason the diplomats of Qaddafi’s regime were asked to leave the embassy and their stations as ambassadors.
The diplomatic complement will be given three days to pack and leave the embassy. UK authorities announced that by this move it will be possible to provide more attention to the needs of the people of Libya, and assured that the funds of the Libyan students will be paid regularly.
At the same time, efforts are being made to unfreeze the goods of the former regime that will help the TNC provide for the people of Libya and cover their basic needs.
Thus, 91 million pounds belonging to an oil company now controlled by the rebels will be directed toward the Transitional National Council. Further efforts will be made to make sure that more goods pertaining to the Qaddafi family will be directed toward the rebels.
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The UK embassy in Tripoli was closed in February but a diplomatic mission has been kept in the rebel city of Benghazi.
Struggle for power continues in Libya, five months after the beginning of demonstrations against the regime, met with a very brutal and criminal crackdown by Qaddafi’s supporters, who were reported to have bombed and gunned down the rebels and to have left their corpses in the streets to rot.
The French-led coalition of the willing ensured a no-fly zone over the territory of Libya, thus making sure that no governmental aircraft will be there to kill more people.
The first strike was continued by a mission led by NATO, which imposed an embargo on weapons in the Mediterranean Sea, preventing Qaddafi from receiving weapons and help.
NATO refused the idea of a terrestrial invasion, and so did the United States, which kept a very low presence in this conflict. They did however support the rebel units fighting in Benghazi, the place where all started.
Russia was one of the countries that strongly opposed such intervention in Libya, especially when the French military admitted that they had airdropped weapons in Libya to help the rebels.
As the conflict drags on, and no outcome can be seen in the immediate future, the fate of the leader of the country is brought into question, now that it became apparent that he is the key to solving the standoff.
No one has seen Qaddafi for a few weeks, and a debate is being conducted on whether he should continue to live in the country, when the conflict is over.
William Hague said on Wednesday that what will happen to Qaddafi after the civil war is over is up to the people in the country.
It becomes more and more clear that unless he wins this fight, Qaddafi is likely to face jail and God knows what else, since leaving the country would render him vulnerable to the international arrest warrant issued on him, and remaining inside Libya would make his life impossible, since many people bear him a grudge for the wrongdoing committed in 42 years of ruling the country indiscriminately.
Qaddafi pledged to fight to the death, and to never leave his own country; that is a promise Mubarak made and kept about the same time as Qaddafi, and Mubarak is now due to face trial next week, being accused of crimes against humanity, and corruption.
It is thought that Mubarak will not face a death sentence, since he comes from the military ranks and the national council that now rules the country, and convinced him to step down so that he may avoid “an end like the one of Ceausescu,” will not let that happen.
Another leader of an Arab country, Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, fled the country, and was sentenced in absentia, being stripped of all the goods he had in possession.
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His official status in Libya is that of Leader and Guide of the Revolution in Libya and of Secretary General of the People’s Congress.
For two years, he was even the chairman of the African Union, the continental body that resembles the European Union in Europe.
In 1977 he established the “jamahyriya,” which translates “mass government,” that is some sort of republic with a direct representation of the people in the state’s affairs.
He based his own political philosophy on Arab nationalism combined with the idea of welfare state.
He was accused by the European countries of having forged an immense financial empire out of exploiting the nation’s oil richness.
He supported the pan-Arab movement and was involved in different terror acts that made his regime a pariah state. However, in 1998, he turned away from pan-Arabism and embraced the idea of pan-Africanism.
In that capacity he supported former dictators like Idi Amin, Charles Taylor, and even contemporary Bashir al Assad.
Many Western leaders were received in his famous tent, especially after the country admitted its guilt in the Lockerbie case and paid compensation to the families.
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