Reply #88: Urgent help needed in Nafusa mountains [View All]

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Regarding the origin intention of UN resolution 1973 it becomes more and more inevitable for NATO to do something for the villages of Yefren and Zintan. According to several reports people are surrounded by Gaddafi troops and since weeks under heavy grenade fire. Drinking water was polluted by oil, food and medics ran out of shops, streets are blocked so they cannot get any fresh supply via the road connections.

If NATO is really acting with that surgical precision they always report of so why don't they use this strategic concept to help the suffering population of Nafusa region by organizing humanitarian air drops just as they did in the mid 90's in Bosnian civil war? One TransAll machine can carry urgently needed goods for hundreds of people.

The strategy behind the actions the pro Gaddafi forces pursue seems to be clear: facing that they have no real chances in gaining territory around the coastal region they retreated in the mountain areas and terrorize now the Berber tribes who were even discriminated in the whole Gaddafi era.

Beating the weak instead of taking care by regarding the military codex is the ultimate sign of merciless cowardice. We've seen acts like that when General Mladic's soldier troops stepped forward to the massacres of Zepa and Srebrenica but we also imagine the newly arranged tactics by NATO answering that genocidal violation of human rights.

Time's running against Muammar and Saif and I desperately hope they will face soon the judges of ICC at The Hague confronting them with all the war crimes they have to respond. Until then it is NATO's first and most important duty to take care of the endangered civilians all over Libya, not only in certain strategic areas around the coast ..