Archivo etiqueta «Libia»
Par Jean-Yves Moisseron, économiste à l’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), rédacteur en chef adjoint de la revue “Maghreb-Machrek” (LE MONDE, 22/02/11):
Jamais deux sans trois. Après la Tunisie et l’Egypte, la Libye, Bahreïn, le Yémen s’embrasent à leur tour. Le fait nouveau est que la révolte arabe s’étend à des pays riches. La richesse par habitant à Bahreïn est identique à ce qu’elle est en France ! Mesurée par le produit intérieur brut (PIB), la richesse de la Libye dépasse celle de la Turquie, ou même de la Roumanie et du Brésil. La Libye est deux fois … Seguir leyendo
By Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya (THE GUARDIAN, 21/02/11):
The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt took us all by surprise, and have still not played out. Libya is the least transparent country in the Middle East at the best of times. Just now, with most communications down, it is truly a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Disturbances started on Wednesday, apparently triggered by the arrest of a lawyer and human rights activist. This was the warmup to a planned “day of rage” on Thursday, commemorating a demonstration in Benghazi in 2006 in which a dozen or … Seguir leyendo
By Hisham Matar, the author of the novel Anatomy of a Disappearance (THE GUARDIAN, 21/01/11):
In the 1970s, the young Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was the most impatient exponent of Arab unity. In 1973, he flew to Tunisia in order to convince his next-door neighbour to form a union with Libya. What happened during that summit says a lot about why Tunisia is the first Arab nation to overthrow a dictator through peaceful mass protest.
The first president of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba, 70 years old by then, sat at a simple table with a microphone in front of him … Seguir leyendo
By Pamela Mix, a founder member and executive director of Disaster Action (THE GUARDIAN, 21/07/10):
Yet again Lockerbie has hit the headlines. The latest twist is the role BP might have had in the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, leading, ironically, to a call for an inquiry into the circumstances of his release. This while the families’ calls for an inquiry into the atrocity itself are denied.
The families have faced years of denials and obfuscation, as we have painstakingly sought answers to the many unanswered questions about Lockerbie. The BP issue is just another element in the shameful … Seguir leyendo
By Heba Morayef, a researcher for Human Rights Watch (THE GUARDIAN, 04/01/10):
As a researcher for Human Rights Watch, I travelled to Libya last month for a press conference marking the publication of our latest report about the country. It was an unprecedented occasion. The press conference was attended by Libyan and international journalists, former prisoners and by family members of prisoners – and it was the first time an independent human rights organisation had been allowed to publicly criticise Libya’s human rights record in Tripoli.
In the days before we arrived, I received emails and calls from Libyans. … Seguir leyendo
By Geoffrey Robertson, the author of Media Law and The Justice Game (THE GUARDIAN, 21/09/09):
Tomorrow brings excruciating embarrassment for the United Nations. It will honour the worst man left in the world, who now devotes his time to thwarting its attempts to bring other international criminals to justice. Colonel Gaddafi will make a triumphant address to the assembled dignitaries (including a humiliated President Obama), unless a district attorney in New York arrests him for murder, or torture, or conspiracy to cause explosions – or for any of the various crimes against humanity committed during 35 of his 40 … Seguir leyendo
Por Fred Hallyday, profesor investigador de la Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) en el Institut de Barcelona d´Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Traducción: JoséMaría Puig de la Bellacasa (LA VANGUARDIA, 14/09/09):
La celebración del 40. º aniversario de la revolución libia, de hecho un golpe de Estado a cargo del coronel Gadafi y un puñado de colaboradores y parientes, me recuerda una conversación que sostuve poco después con un amigo, un veterano diplomático argelino. El Gobierno argelino se había sentido presa de asombro y pasmo – como cualquier otro-por la aparición en escena de este grotesco, radical y … Seguir leyendo
Por Peter Singer, profesor de Bioética en la Universidad de Princeton y profesor emérito en la Universidad de Melbourne. Traducción de Kena Nequiz. © Project Syndicate, 2009 (EL PAÍS, 03/09/09):
La reciente liberación de Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, la única persona condenada por la explosión del vuelo 103 de Pan Am sobre Lockerbie (Escocia) en 1988, generó indignación. Aproximadamente al mismo tiempo, las Águilas de Filadelfia, un equipo de fútbol americano, le ofrecieron una segunda oportunidad a la ex estrella Michael Vick, que había sido condenado por dirigir una organización de peleas de perros en la que se torturaba … Seguir leyendo
By Oliver Miles, a retired diplomat and the chairman of MEC International (THE GUARDIAN, 01/09/09):
The 1999 Lockerbie trial arrangements, including a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands, was a brilliant example of British diplomacy at its most creative, for which Robin Cook and FCO officials share the credit. The negotiations following Blair’s visit to Libya, on the contrary, seem to have been the height of incompetence (I was involved in neither). Megrahi’s release on compassionate grounds, politically neutral, would naturally have been a positive point in Britain and Scotland’s relations with Libya, but against all the odds it … Seguir leyendo
By Marcel Berlins, a lawyer turned journalist (THE GUARDIAN, 31/08/09):
What if Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was innocent of the Lockerbie bombing? The furore over his release has concentrated on two issues: whether or not he deserved to be freed on compassionate grounds – the reason given by the Scottish justice secretary – and whether, behind the scenes, lurked the real motive for granting his freedom, which was all about oil and Britain’s trading relationship with Libya.
Megrahi’s return to Libya seemed conveniently to have sidelined another potentially embarrassing question: was he the victim of a miscarriage of justice? Was the … Seguir leyendo
By Saif Al-Islam El-Qaddafi, the chairman of the Qaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/08/09):
Contrary to reports in the Western press, there was no “hero’s welcome” for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi when he returned to Libya earlier this month.
There was not in fact any official reception for the return of Mr. Megrahi, who had been convicted and imprisoned in Scotland for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. The strong reactions to these misperceptions must not be allowed to impair the improvements in a mutually beneficial relationship between Libya and the West.
When I arrived at … Seguir leyendo
Par Huguette Chomski-Magnis, présidente du Mouvement pour la paix et contre le terrorisme (LIBERATION, 27/08/09):
La libération du Libyen Al-Megrahi a fait grand bruit. Il faut dire d’emblée que la libération pour des raisons humanitaires liées à son état de santé d’un criminel, fut-il terroriste et condamné à la réclusion à perpétuité, n’est pas choquante en soi. Mais, dans l’épilogue de l’affaire de l’attentat de Lockerbie, tout donne la nausée : véritable gifle pour les familles des 270 victimes, en grande majorité américaines, mais aussi britanniques, en particulier 11 habitants du village écossais de Lockerbie, un accueil triomphal a été organisé par … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall, an assistant editor of the Guardian and a foreign affairs columnist (THE GUARDIAN, 13/08/09):
The return to Libya of the Lockerbie bomber would mark another stage in the remarkable rehabilitation of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and a regime formerly shunned by Britain and other western countries as a dangerous pariah. But relations with Tripoli remain tentative in other respects, with issues such as the 1984 murder outside the Libyan embassy in London of PC Yvonne Fletcher still unresolved.
Gaddafi can be expected to make political capital out of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi‘s release. September will see celebrations marking … Seguir leyendo
By Mohamed Eljahmi, a Libyan American activist who lives in Massachusetts (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/11/08):
Today, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan Col. Moammar Gaddafi and the regime’s point man in dealing with the United States, is scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the State Department. The visit by Saif, who also heads the Gaddafi Foundation, will be the first trip to Washington by a member of Moammar Gaddafi’s immediate family. Sadly, it comes as Libyan democratic dissidents suffer in the dungeons of his father, their plight ignored by the State Department.
After … Seguir leyendo
By Mohamed Eljahmi, a Libyan American activist who lives in Massachusetts (THE WASHINGTON POST, 02/01/08):
Tomorrow, Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam is to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Their sit-down at the State Department will come nearly seven months after President Bush declared himself a “dissident president” and promised active support for dissidents around the world. “I asked Secretary Rice,” Bush said during a speech in Prague, “to send a directive to every U.S. ambassador in an un-free nation: Seek out and meet with activists for democracy. Seek out those who demand human rights.”
Nothing of the … Seguir leyendo