Col. Muammar Gaddafi, leader of the Libyan people for 42 years, was brutally targeted, tortured and executed in a series of events on October 20 in the coastal city of Sirte. The city is a bastion of resistance to the U.S.-NATO war in Libya which has gone on for over eight months.
Gaddafi, 69, was in Sirte directing the resistance fighters who have defended the country against an imperialist engineered civil war and bombing campaign that has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Libyans and other foreign nationals. Even though the corporate media and the western states believed that the Libyan government would have fallen in a matter of weeks, the state and its supporters have heroically been able to hold out for eight months.
The "No Fly Zone" was a pretext for total war against the state of Libya. A naval blockade was imposed by the NATO countries, over $US120 billion in foreign assets belonging to the government were frozen, the NTC rebels were armed, financed, promoted politically and given military cover by the U.S.-NATO countries and their allies in the region, the Pentagon-NATO air and naval forces conducted over 20,000 sorties and 9,500 bombings, and corporate-government media campaigns were conducted against the Libyan government to justify the deliberate destruction of the most prosperous country on the African continent.
Despite the objection of the 53-member African Union continental organization, the U.S.-NATO states refused to negotiate a settlement to the war and demanded that the government resign. The NATO puppets in the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands issued unsubstantiated charges and indictments against the Libyan leadership to further isolate the government amid a massive military invasion and bombing campaign.
The assassination of Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim no matter how illegal and brutal must be viewed within the broader context of the atrocities engineered against the Libyan people by the U.S.-NATO Alliance and their NTC rebels.
A systematic racist campaign targeting Black Libyans and Africans from other states on the continent who are living and working inside the country has exposed the true nature of the opposition to Gaddafi.
Why Was Gaddafi Killed?
Gaddafi was lynched in a vain attempt to end the resistance of the Libyan people against imperialist aggression. The extra-judicial killing is also designed to send a message to other opponents of imperialism in Africa where the U.S. and NATO states are intervening at a rapid rate.
Africa is increasingly supplying larger amounts of oil and other strategic resources to the U.S. and western European states. This attempt at regime-change in Libya is also designed to impede the increasing cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the African continent.
If the social justice and anti-war movements inside the United States and Europe are going to achieve any results aimed at ending militarism and austerity imposed by the banks and transnational corporations, they must seriously address the escalating imperialist aggression against the African continent, its people and leaders. The massacre of Libyan people and the attacks upon its government can only be viewed as a setback to working and oppressed people within the imperialist states who are suffering as a result of low-wage capitalism and wars of occupation abroad.
It will take an alliance of the working people in the capitalist states and around the world to bring down world imperialism. Only with the destruction of imperialism will there be an opportunity to achievement genuine peace and development throughout the planet.
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