[Debate] Vengeance in Tripoli: "Almost all of the victims were black men"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

What about a simple protest against the rebels' lynching of black men?
 Is that too difficult a concept?  Or will leftists remain silent on
this?  Have you, for instance, written a word about this problem?
Could the rebels be doing this in part because few -- even on the Left
-- are vocally condemning it?

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
> On 8/27/2011 6:33 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> IMHO, it's insane for leftists to give political support to the rebel
>> force who are lynching black men
>
> Agreed! Right then, shall we lobby for the King of African Kings to be
> reinstated?
>
> "We don't know what will be the reaction of the white and Christian
> Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans," the
> Libyan leader told a Rome meeting attended by Silvio Berlusconi, the
> Italian prime minister. "We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced
> and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the
> barbarian invasions."
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/01/eu-muammar-gaddafi-immigration
>
> EU keen to strike deal with Muammar Gaddafi on immigration
>
> Commission chiefs to hold talks with Libya over Gaddafi's demand for
> €5bn a year to stop Europe turning 'black'
>
>     * Ian Traynor in Brussels
>     * guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 17.58 BST
>
> The European Union is keen to strike a pact with Muammar Gaddafi to stem
> the flow of immigrants across the Mediterranean, officials said today,
> after the Libyan leader put a price tag of €5bn (£4.1bn) a year on the
> deal.
>
> "There is great scope to develop cooperation with Libya on migration,"
> said Matthew Newman, a commission spokesman. Other officials said three
> negotiating sessions were expected by the end of the year between
> Brussels and Tripoli as well as the staging of a summit of EU and
> African leaders in Libya in November.
>
> In a highly theatrical visit to Italy this week, Gaddafi warned that
> Europe would turn "black" unless it was more rigorous in turning back
> immigrants. Libya is a key transit point for illegal migration from
> Africa to Europe. The Libyan leader said the bill for sealing the
> crossing routes would be at least €5bn a year.
>
> While the commission in Brussels said that much could be achieved with
> Libya "for lesser amounts than that named by Colonel Gaddafi", Franco
> Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, supported the Libyan leader. He
> said European government chiefs would discuss the proposed migration
> pact at the Tripoli summit.
>
> Frattini went to Libya today to chair a meeting of Mediterranean-rim
> countries, five from the EU and five in the Maghreb.
>
> "Gaddafi was making an argument all the other Arab leaders in north
> Africa have made, which is that they don't want to be the gendarmes of
> Europe," Frattini said. "The issue of the 5 billion [euros] has not been
> looked at up to now. We will look at it in European meetings and I
> imagine it will be considered at a European-African summit in Libya in
> November."
>
> Libya is already taking part in three "pilot projects" set up by the EU
> and Italy on migration, and Tripoli has received almost €20m in EU
> funding, the European commission said.
>
> While in Rome Gaddafi advised Europeans to convert to Islam and sought
> to bolster his claim for billions from Europe by warning that millions
> of Africans were seeking to migrate to the EU.
>
> "We don't know what will be the reaction of the white and Christian
> Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans," the
> Libyan leader told a Rome meeting attended by Silvio Berlusconi, the
> Italian prime minister. "We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced
> and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the
> barbarian invasions."
>
> Relations between Berlusconi and Gaddafi are strong, based on booming
> business ties and repression of immigrants. Under a much-criticised deal
> struck two years ago, Italian border patrols in the Mediterranean are
> turning back thousands of migrants at sea. They are returned to Libya
> without being screened for legitimate political asylum cases.
>
> "Europe needs to finally get a migration policy, giving plenty of funds
> to the migrants' countries of origin and helping transit countries
> facing a huge burden," Frattini said.
>
> The Rome-Tripoli accord has decreased the numbers of illegal migrants
> coming into the EU. According to one set of EU figures, the number of
> illegal immigrants last year fell by more than three quarters to 7,300.
>
> But a confidential internal security report from EU police and border
> agencies, leaked to the Statewatch whistleblower this week, said 900,000
> illegal immigrants were entering the EU every year.
>
> "The risk of illegal migration by north, east and west African nationals
> to the EU remains high," said the report. "Libya remains a focal point
> despite recent success in disrupting entry into the EU by this route."
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