If we all lived in a Cartoon World the story of the Colonel Gaddafi and his 'stunts' throughout his presidency would be one of the funniest ones. However we do not live in a Cartoon reality, and even in the domains of the mad and deranged Dictators the people's bleed the real blood, and all the dead people do not get revived.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi who has been Libya's Dictator for 42 years provided the spectators with a very questionable and consistently idiotic "entertainment" all the time. The farce continued for decades every time the "megalomaniac demi-god" had any public appearance. He was a master of reinventing the history, accusing all the Western countries of completely ridiculous crimes. He was a "master" of all arts and sciences, and "taught" the doctors how to perform surgeries, taught actors how to act, painters how to paint... In this narcissistic self admiration he joined some other Dictators like Iraq's Hussein, and North Korea's Kim Pyong-il... He talked "trush" to the Western Leaders for years at the same time letting the terrorist training camps function on the Libyan territoriy. He has been ridiculed, bombed, sanctioned against, ridiculed again... He, and his system survived all that and finally in 1999 he had a "change of heart", and became the ally of the West in the "war on terror". He was still ridiculous and incoherent in his speeches (like his 95 minuets long rant in the UN less than 2 years ago, in 2009), but stopped openly acting against the Western Civilization.
All, what I described above would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.
Unfortunately, we can't even guess the number of the people killed in 4 decades by the Libyan apparatus of terror. What we can estimate is only what has been unfolding if front of our eyes in these few days since the unrest stared in Tripoli, Benghazi, and other cities. The tweeted reports about the casualties on the streets reached more than 300 dead and thousand or more wounded. It's difficult to confirm them since the Internet is not working, and the hospitals do not keep the track of the brought victims.
A son (second oldest) of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has admitted the country's military over-reacted when dealing with protesters. He is the more moderate son of the Dictator, who rejected the father's policies in the past. But, speaking on Libyan TV, Sayf al-Islam accused the opposition of trying to break up the country. He said troops had opened fire on protesters because they were not trained to handle civil unrest. He said that "some" people had been killed, but accused foreign media of exaggerating the violence. He said that reports of high death tolls were "imaginary". He continued accusing the whole unrest to be a work of foreign paid thugs (on drugs) who wanted to split Libya in 3 sections - Libyan Arab Emirates (?!). He denied any accusations of using the foreign mercenaries against the protesters - contrary to the multiple reports of the witnesses.
He warned the nation that at this time there were only 2 options for tomorrow: stop the bloodshed and return to peace, or this would end up in years of a civil war and would be much worse than Iraq, or Yugoslavia etc. He threatened that the sedition would be "destroyed" and said:"we will not give up any inch of the Libyan territory".
He dwelled for a long time on the possible devastating result of the unrest, unavailing in front of the spectators the diabolical scenario of the foreign (European and American) military intervention to prevent losing the Libyan supply of oil, and as a result occupying the country for years, depriving the people of the "freedoms they enjoy now".
Libya is a country of about 6 million people, functioning in a mostly tribal society. It's predominantly a desert country with the oil fields in the center part of the territory.
The tribal leaders in the areas where the oil is being explored have set the ultimatum threatening closing the fields if the government continued with the violence toward the demonstrators.
The Libyan envoy to the Arab League left his post in the protest to the brutal crackdown on the protesters. The same did the Libyan Ambassador to India. It's obvious that even among the Libyan official representatives there are people who do not condone the repressive actions of the Colonel Gaddafi and his regime.
Some, growing in frequency reports from the Eastern, industrial city of Benghasi (1.5 million inhabitants), where so far the most of the deaths occurred, claim that the Army joined the protesters and the city is now in the hands of the demonstrators.
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How is the situation in Libya going to unfold? It seems that Libya has passed the point of no return. It seems, that the last days of the Dictator are approaching. Unfortunately, the peaceful solution is slipping out of reach, especially when the Non-Libyan mercenaries are used against the Libyan citizens. The Dictator's son promises didn't leave any uncertainty. The regime will try every tool in their disposal to return to the 'status quo' (however artificial, and short lived might be ).
The condemnation of the violence by all the Western government doesn't seem to have any effect.
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