Tuesday 31 May 2011

Wage War for Libyans,

The young pan Africanist said with a unanimous voice,and called on the african union to unite more than ever and pull up thier military might and intervine in the libyan conflict,a conflict that amid president zuma`s visit saw more raid on Libya as if Saif al-Adel was visiting.In as much as we would like to intervene in these condlict our track record in democracy and transparency is not reliable,and Libya being part of the Arab league our power as black African is limited and many attimes we are reminded of pressing conflicts in Africa by which our force could serve better use,conflicts such as those in Congo,Uganda,Sudan and now Somalia where we have seen a seemingly ineffective AU peace keeping force much of its drowsiness resulting from a range of factors such as lack of military hardware,lack of contribution by member states,untrained personel,indispline e.t.c.All these factors emanate from a well established status of africa namely poverty.So does this mean that african countries armies are incompetent of fighting in self defence if attacked by another state?,A good example where this was demonstrated was that of Uganda-Tanzania during general Al-Hajj Idi Amin Dada in 1978 that resulted in the diposition of one of the pan africanist initiators,this act of self defence is a sure reason why every single country in the world has an army.One of the aims of AU is "to promote peace, security, and stability on the continent"which entails that appropriate action can be taken by the assembly to meet this goal.On the other hand NATO having been formed with a cold war aim of waging war against the soviet union,its objectives have not changed much,such like "an attack on one member state means an attack on all NATO states" i wonder if such was the african union slogans eventhough we do not have a common enemy.
The calls by  youth Pan Africanist for a demonstration this saturday in disgust of the continual bombing game in Libya raises much excitment in the veins of a pan africanist,me obviously hardly not included,.Libya especially has been a testing ground for the african Union,and its silence for the uprising in Tunisia and Egypt has clouded the Union`s efforts to mediate in the Libyan conflict and the recent shaking of the Libyan capital in the presidential presence of one of the powerfull nations on the african continent does not only undermines our power (AU) but it is a demonstration of thier power (NATO) and our weakness.
Egypt is not Libya,If it happened in Egypt does not mean it will hapen in the same way in Libya,Yemen is another mouth watering case study so is Syria Bharain,Qator and Saudi Arabia all have failed to depose their encumbent dictators.If the west want to see democracy in action in africa they should look at South Africa,Nigeria,Uganda,Rwanda  and the ivory coast whose unity has led to the transition to democracy that has unfolded in the eyes of the world.

No comments:

Post a Comment