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Libyan Constitutional Union
http://www.libyanconstitutionalunion.net Advertisement L.C.U's
FORMULATION OF THE
LIBYAN CASE AND THE WESTERN RESPONSE
For
three years now, the Libyan Constitutional Union has
been trying
to put forward a very simple message: that the
ruling dictatorship in Libya must be replaced not by
another
military or pro-military government, but with the
restoration
of full democracy to the nation. We
took our stand upon sound precedents in the face
of an
illegitimate/police state which had grown to become
a hateful
scourge to the Libyan people and a constant menace
to the
security of other nations as well. Indeed, its openly
contemptuous
attitude to the norms of civilised international
conduct has
now reached the new low of taking innocent postages
under false pretences in an attempt to bargain
for the
release of convicted criminals of its own making, The
military junta that came to power in our country
back in 1969
could never, by any stretch of the imagination,
be regarded
as a " revolutionary vanguard " of the people In fact, its
coup has proved to be nothing but a subversive
movement
bent on destroying the whole structure of a nationally
endorsed political system whose foundations had
been laid by
the UN itself. For it was under the auspices of
a United Nations special commission that Libya gained
its
hard-earned independence as a constitutional democracy
over thirty
years ago. To
a certain extent, the extraordinary fact that a proven
terrorist
regime could get away with so many atrocities for
such a long
time can only be ascribed to the reluctance of
some
democratic governments to live up to their own fundamental principles on
principle alone. We
have to say this with particular reference to the
United States. From both our own experience and observation, we have
come to the conclusion that (for all its rhetoric
on the high ideals of democracy and human rights
and so
forth) the US Administration does not really concern
itself with
the question of democratic civil liberties in Third
World
nations. Apparently, the American government would
rather deal
with established military cliques or would-be insurgents
in relation to such countries.
Advertisement from The Libyan Constitutional Union -Manchester 16
The Guardian
: Saturday 6th October
1984
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