2011-09-27

A New Regime, Same Crimes

The Qaddafi regime fell in Libya simply because the Colonel was too committed to ruling a country by crimes, injustice and personal aspirations. His regime brought down thousands of innocent Libyans who simply wished to be governed more democratically. Now the new government, after Qaddafi’s fall, seems to be conducting the same political game with the people in Libya and regime crimes are simply becoming a usual occurrence in the country after the protests that brought down the fanatic leader.

A report by the BBC looks deeply into the social conditions of Libya after the so called liberation from the dictatorship - and what the BBC reporters found goes far beyond democracy and has nothing to do with the true reasons that induced many Libyans to stand for a better country.

Several people from Benghazi have complained in front of the cameras of the media that after rebels took control over the city, these people have been the subject of immense and unbearable torture. They have been forced to chant insulting slogans, they have been trapped and they children and women abused. Prisons were quickly filled by new prisoners - this time people that have been good citizens during the regime of the military leader.

Workers have also been forced into the jails. Many of the people working on oil factories (supplying Europe’s demand for produced fuels such as white diesel, gasoline and so on) have been trapped and jailed for not joining the rebel army. People from other nationalities and mainly from Central Africa have been forced to flee back to their countries. More serious problems were indicated in Tripoli after the city had been taken by rebels. Eye witnesses report that rebel armies tortured and jailed many of the rich people in the city or the ones that were working in the financial services and banking sectors.

So is Libya recovering from the dictatorship of a cruel leader or is it imposing a governance pattern of cruelty yet again upon its own population? Facts indicate the country is not in a need of new leader, but in need to deep social and public changes.

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