{"id":258857,"date":"2017-12-02T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=258857"},"modified":"2021-02-13T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:53:16","slug":"slave-markets-in-liberated-libya-and-the-silence-of-the-humanitarian-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/slave-markets-in-liberated-libya-and-the-silence-of-the-humanitarian-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave markets in \u2018liberated\u2019 Libya and the silence of the humanitarian hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
If Libya had nuclear weapons that would have never happened. Black Africa, take notice before it\u2019s too late! “The life of one human being is more important than all Humanity.”<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The reports that black Africans are being sold at slave markets in \u2018liberated\u2019 Libya for as little as $400 is a terrible indictment of the so-called \u2018humanitarian intervention\u2019 carried out by NATO to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
\nIn March 2011 virtue-signaling Western \u2018liberal\u2019 hipsters teamed up with hardcore neocon warmongers to demand action to \u2018save\u2019 the Libyan people from the \u2018despotic\u2019 leader who had ruled the country since the late 1960s. \u201cSomething has to be done!\u201d they cried in unison.<\/p>\n

Something was done. Libya was transformed by NATO from the country with the highest Human Development Index in the whole of Africa in\u00a02009\u00a0into a lawless hell-hole, with rival governments, warlords and terror groups fighting for control of the country.<\/p>\n

Under Gaddafi, Libyans enjoyed free health care and education. Literacy rates went up from around 25 percent to almost 90 percent. A UN Human Rights Council report on Libya from January 2011, in which member states praised welfare provision, can be read\u00a0here.<\/p>\n

It was clear that while there were still areas of concern the country was continuing to make progress on a number of fronts.<\/p>\n

In the Daily Telegraph – hardly a paper which could be accused of being an ideological supporter of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya – Libya was\u00a0hailed\u00a0as one of the top six exotic cruise ship destinations in June 2010.<\/p>\n

Cruise ships don\u2019t have Libya on their itineraries today. It\u2019s far too dangerous.<\/p>\n

The only surprising thing about the return of slave markets (and it\u2019s worth pointing out that before\u00a0the CNN report, the UN agency, IOM also\u00a0reported\u00a0on their existence in Libya earlier this year) is that anyone should be surprised by it. Human rights and social progress usually go back hundreds of years whenever a NATO \u2018humanitarian\u2019 intervention takes place. And that\u2019s not accidental. The \u2018interventions,\u2019 which purposely involve heavy bombing of the country\u2019s infrastructure and the subsequent dismantling of the state apparatus are designed to reverse decades of social progress. The \u2018failure to plan\u2019 is actually the most important part of the plan, as my fellow OpEdger Dan Glazebrook details in his\u00a0book\u00a0Divide and Destroy – The West\u2019s Imperial Strategy in an Age of Crisis.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/411562-libya-slave-markets-nato\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: If Libya had nuclear weapons that would have never happened. Black Africa, take notice before it\u2019s too late! “The life of one human being is more important than all Humanity.”  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":297821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}