The latest news is not good. The leader says he will not step down and is encouraging civil war between the citizens. Many have died in a cause to bring reform to the country.
I was able to visit the country on two occasions and each time I found the Libyan people to be kind and just like anyone else. They wanted equality, jobs, decent wages and freedom to be human. At the time I was there you had to be careful of what you said because you never knew where security forces were. We visited the ruins in Leptis Magna and Sabrata. These ruins have been around since the time of the Phoenicians, Greek and Romans.
In Leptis Magna there is this great Arch, cannot remember the name on the arch but these are very old sites and with what is going on now, the way the ones in charge are reacting, people are dying and history is being deleted from the land. The leader, I will refer to him as G. says he will die a martyr in his country. The problem is he will not be a martyr, he will be remember like Hitler and Mussolini, the great evils of our memories.
One of his sons stated there would be rivers of blood, the blood of those who only wish for a better life as the powers in charge have no wants or needs. The oil supports what they want but not the people.
I am deeply saddened that one or a small group of people have so little respect for human life they would turn against their own people and commit mass murder but we have seen this in the past and as long as humanity tolerates oppression, these actions will continue.
It is not the right of the west to take over a country to dictate our ways but it is the obligation of all of humanity to stand against brutality against those wanting change.
Oil is not an excuse to allow this to continue. Please pray for those who are in harms way and pray for an end to the bloodshed.
I was able to visit the country on two occasions and each time I found the Libyan people to be kind and just like anyone else. They wanted equality, jobs, decent wages and freedom to be human. At the time I was there you had to be careful of what you said because you never knew where security forces were. We visited the ruins in Leptis Magna and Sabrata. These ruins have been around since the time of the Phoenicians, Greek and Romans.
In Leptis Magna there is this great Arch, cannot remember the name on the arch but these are very old sites and with what is going on now, the way the ones in charge are reacting, people are dying and history is being deleted from the land. The leader, I will refer to him as G. says he will die a martyr in his country. The problem is he will not be a martyr, he will be remember like Hitler and Mussolini, the great evils of our memories.
One of his sons stated there would be rivers of blood, the blood of those who only wish for a better life as the powers in charge have no wants or needs. The oil supports what they want but not the people.
I am deeply saddened that one or a small group of people have so little respect for human life they would turn against their own people and commit mass murder but we have seen this in the past and as long as humanity tolerates oppression, these actions will continue.
It is not the right of the west to take over a country to dictate our ways but it is the obligation of all of humanity to stand against brutality against those wanting change.
Oil is not an excuse to allow this to continue. Please pray for those who are in harms way and pray for an end to the bloodshed.
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