Reply #40: When the west encourages genocide and xenophobia (the persecution of blacks by rebels continues) [View All]

[Cali_Democrat]

When the west encourages genocide and xenophobia
September 15, 2011 - 2:59am | By Fred Nwonwu

Any Igbo man, who has had the unfortunate experience of spending substantial time in any of the cities, villages or towns in the far North of Nigeria, and recently Jos, knows firsthand how it feels to be hunted, to have bloodthirsty gangs on the prowl for your blood. They know too well, that sudden dryness of the oral cavity and the clinching of the tummy, which comes from acute fear that arise from the knowledge that one’s life hangs in the balance, and could end within the minute.

In the North, the fear of sudden death is not a constant one, but one that comes and goes with each seasonal blowout of violence and ends soon after it is over or one finds succour in the nearest army or police barrack, constant enough that many have gotten used to it.

Having witnessed sectional violence and the madness that is unexplainable xenophobia, I know a little bit about what my compatriots and other blacks are facing now in Libya. They are being hunted, killed and treated worse than beasts; all because they have skin colouration that are pixels darker than that of the average northern Libyan.

It is not that these killings and ill treatments of blacks in Libya started today. For sure, it also occurred under Gaddafi who was bent on keeping his relationship rosy with Europe by controlling the number of illegal immigrants that pass through Libya to Europe. However, since the uprising in March, the rebel forces have shown a higher capacity of hatred for black Africans and have being lynching them with abandon, under the nose of their NATO masters.

Read more: http://dailytimes.com.ng/blog/when-west-encourages-genocide-and-xenophobia