Gaddafi must be charged for war crimes now!

Feb 23, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I do not believe in the death penalty. In a referendum I would vote for its abolition. That doesn’t mean I was unhappy when Saddam Hussein was hanged. If I had to vote on his execution, I probably would have abstained. Hussein was an unfit leader who had no moral redemption in him.
Only an ugly mind would admire Hussein. Just imagine, his country is at war, his soldiers are fighting and dying and he hid like a rat in a mud-hole. When they found him, his condition at the time made him look like a wild animal.
Dictators love to kill people but they cherish their own lives and that of their families more than other human beings. It is like the mafia. Killing is an obsession with the mafia but if the child of one of the godfathers is murdered, he would cry for months. His kid’s life has more value than the dozens of others he exterminated.
Dictators put no premium on the lives of opposition leaders and their critics. When their own demise is facing them, they run like dogs to save their skin. Noriega in Panama killed opposition leaders but behaved like a coward when his country was invaded by US troops. Instead of fighting, he ran from place to place looking for shelter. I hope he rots in a French jail.
The world must be inflexible with the punishment of dictators because they are killers. The interim government in Tunisia may ask for the death penalty for ousted dictator, Ben Ali. The irony about Castro and Chavez is that they were both charged for treason, found guilty and were given light prison sentences.
The rulers of the day in Cuba and Venezuela did not execute them. When Castro came to power, he put thousands before the firing squad for crimes that were far less severe than treason. Castro has been a pathetic failure in that for fifty years Cuba has not moved into the modern world. And to think the Cuban people have not removed this man and his brother and put them on trial
The world has a chance of removing Gaddafi by charging him for crimes against humanity. This absurd, eccentric figure of a human being (who from the Wikileaks cables has chosen as his lover a Ukrainian nurse whom he trusts with his life more than his fellow, close companions) has been in power for over 42 years. Now his moral and political bankruptcy is about to come to an ignominious end. His ossified dictatorship is under siege and his cruelty has become primitive.
Muammar Gaddafi is Genghis Khan in the computer age
Snipers from rooftops have been shooting to death innocent, unarmed protestors in the current demonstration. There have been more hundreds of brutal killings by machine guns and sniper rifles of unarmed protestors in Libya. Jet fighters were called in to fire on the protestors.
Some countries must issue war crime warrants against Gaddafi. The American Government immediately put out a travel advisory on Gaddafi. Charging brutal dictators with crimes against humanity is the only way to stop them. Spain is the country that leads the way in trying to put war criminals like Gaddafi on trial.
The United Nations has to step in. How can snipers sit on a rooftop and just pick off people like that? It reminds me of the death camp commander in Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award winning, Schindler’s List. He and his fellow Nazis would have fun by just picking off Jewish workers in the camp with sniper rifles as the Jews went about their work. That was the part of the film I found most sickening
I hope Obama is able to use American foreign policy to help the people of the Arab world who have risen up against their dictators. Muammar Gaddafi is a monster. He has been a monster a long time now. This is a human being who needs to be put in a prison and left there to die.
I never liked any of the governments in the Arab world. I believe the Palestinian people have a right to their homeland and that Israel must stop its aggression against them and return their land unconditionally.
I suspect Obama is going to flex his muscles against Israel if he gets a second term. But I will close my eyes and support any Israeli Government in preference of all the Arab leaders.
These bestial Arab dictators have gone on for too long. Gaddafi must be put on trial.

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