Some African traditional rulers bestowed the title "king of kings" on Gaddafi in 2008
An interesting Vanity Fair photo collection of the dead Libyan leader, Gaddafi. Muammar will be remembered for his outlandish garb and outrageous ideas, no doubt about that. Remember he coaxed some 200 African kings and traditional rulers to bestowed the title “king of kings” on him in 2008.
With all the billions of money and assets acquired over four decades of his dictatorial reign, I thought Gaddafi would have taken the smartest way out – sneak out of the Libya and buy/negotiate himself a safe landing somewhere, like the Tunisian president did. Ben Ali left Tunisia with his family for Saudi Arabia.
It’s about time someone told Gaddafi to keep his guns and goons at home, it feels good that the Nigerian security forces told him and his posse off.
This man surely gets a kick out of being guarded by women in uniform; I’m sure there is a DSM code for this; this is certainly a mental disorder!
“Western countries and America are not busying themselves out of sympathy for the Sudanese people or for Africa but for oil and for the return of colonialism to the African continent…To be occupied by the Sudanese army is better than to be occupied by UN forces, and the biggest disaster is if the Atlantic army came and positioned itself in Sudan.”
This is from no other person than the Libyan strongman – [tag]Muammar Gaddafi[/tag], speaking in Tripoli during a ceremony celebrating the signing of yet another peace agreement.
What is there to celebrate about Sudan/Darfur, I ask?
A place where “screaming toddlers were ripped from their [mothers'] grasp and shot; older children who tried to save their brothers and sisters were hunted down.”
“Five peace treaties have been signed and torn up since conflict erupted in Darfur in 2003. Local tribes, mostly “African” farmers, formed rebel movements to protest against the neglect of their region and the arming of Arabic-speaking nomadic militias. The government responded by encouraging the militias, known as the janjaweed, to target civilians it suspected of supporting the rebels.”
Would Africa and the entire universe be better off without the likes of Gaddafi, dictators high on empty pride and suffering from chronic cases of grandiose delusion? This is a question that begets no answer, I suppose.
Despite Rwanda [tag]genocide[/tag], and with the 200,000+ deaths in Darfur, it is gut-wrenching that the likes of Gaddafi would prefer to sit on their high horses and continue to play the meaningless game of politics! If only Reagan’s bomb didn’t miss in 1986…