Libya: Mother’s point of view

the sky and when buildings and property are reduced to smothering, spare a thought for Libya’s women and children. And, when the smell of death is all over Libya, what is becoming of innocent women and children? The question is do they deserve to be on the run all the time, because America, France and Britain want to get to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

The amount of violence ever since Nato set foot in Libya is a thousand times more than what Col Gaddafi himself would have caused in his 42 years of rule.
Not that Gaddafi is a saint himself, No! But when facts are laid bare, women have heard the difficult task to feed and keep an eye on children in the raging war, life becomes something else. In the bloody skirmishes women, some of them with children clad on their backs, some of them handling the young ones by their hand, are useful in their uselessness.

They bear the brand of the war. For many Libyan women, it has been difficult to prepare food for the family, to suckle babies while ducking bullets and shrapnel yet the United Nations, claims to the erstwhile vanguard of the people’s rights.
When are we going to spare a thought for these women and children? When are we going to spare a thought for these innocent people on the receiving end of the war? When bombs rain and flatten

structures, there no home to run to, there is no hospital or place to seek refugee at. All the women do is huddle together with their children at the nearest hideout.

Every women in the world is a mother and when events take nasty turns and twists like what has been happening in Libya over the past five months, a mother is the most troubled. Fine, a few women are an exception. For women and children the situation is getting worse everyday, especially now that Gaddafi is cornered and fighting for his life.
There is no doubt that as Col Gaddafi uses every method to cling on to power, women and children are caught in crossfire! The harder the battle the worse the situation. From a learned and empowered African woman’s point of view Nato and rebels are a shame. They created the war and the United Nations is an accomplice in the murder of innocent women and children. From the same point of view the African Union has proved useless and a toothless bulldog.

The rebels have no cause and are bunch of confused sellouts working to return Libya’s oil resources to former colonialists, imperialists and plunderers at the same time exposing their own wives, children, brothers and sisters to an unnecessary war.
France, Britain and America are guilty of murdering civilians and of trampling on the rights of children. Where are the children’s rights to good life, where are their rights to freedom, peace and tranquillity. The rebels are not patriots, they are not nationalists, they do not have Libya at heart. The rebels are conduits, carrying American and British ideology on plundering of Libyan resources. An analysis shows that the rebels are mere smokescreens, behind which America and its allies are hiding their heinous acts of regime change and outright hegemony on another country’s natural resources.

For America it is the second chance and probably, the last one, to finish off, the “rogue and eccentric dictator” after a failed attempt in 1986. They legitimised the rebels, brought in state-of-the-art and technologically superior bomber planes, latest artillery, poured in money, organised and re-organised the rebels.

But they did not think of the children and women. What makes it unfortunate is the fact that the rebels are not ashamed to be used and abused by the Americans, the French and the British. Nato made it impossible for the Libyan government since February, to fly a single plane, yet it has stood its ground against the disorganised rebels, whose common cause is that Gaddafi must go. It is Nato’s bombs that killed civilians – women, men and children – and not Gaddafi’s planes. Even if he falls today, Gaddafi managed to hold his own for a commendable time and even stretched Nato forces to the limits. Nato had to defile and manipulate UN Resolution 1973 as removing Gaddafi became a distant mirage.

Each day that passed, the rebels disagreed more and more as their unity of purpose was challenged and crippled nut Nato reorganised them. After removing Gaddafi, the rebels will still fight each other and kill each other too, so America and its allies will have to handle the rebels, mould and re-mould them, through and through.

We must not forget that the killing of General Abdel Fatah Yunis Al-Obeidi sparked a lot of controversy and even armed clashes within the Libyan opposition which in turn demonstrates the complete failure of the Western coalition’s diplomatic efforts aimed at consolidating Gaddafi’s opponents.

So, even when Gaddafi is gone, women and children will have to brace for another period of violence as America and its allies try to bring sanity to the rebels.