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The ICC notoriously serves Western interests. As a result, it absolves or ignores their crimes while targeting their enemies like Gaddafi.
Former World Bank vice president Mark Malloch Brown and former US diplomat Morton Abramowitz co-founded the ICG. Now headed by former US diplomat Thomas Pickering and former International Criminal Tribunals chief prosecutor for Yugoslavia and Rwanda Louise Arbour, it functions the same way.
Its Executive Committee and advisors include former US and Western officials, former NATO commander Wesley Clark, and corporate figures like George Soros. They, in turn, reframed responsibility to protect authority in Libya to lawlessly intervene belligerently to establish neo-colonial rule. In fact, UN Charter provisions explicitly prohibit military force for humanitarian interventions.
Investigators also mischaracterized Jamahiriya governance, calling it "an elaborate facade" to hide Gaddafi's sole authority. Quoting the ICG, they described it as "a highly complex formal ruling system containing a plethora of congresses and committees, often with overlapping powers, that have contributed to a sense of orchestrated and perpetual chaos."In addition by calling himself "Brother Leader," Gaddafi "avoid(ed) accountability."
They quoted the ICC saying "the Libyan State apparatus of power - including political, administrative, military and security branches - consists of a complex set of units and individuals, all of which are ultimately subject to the orders and control of" Gaddafi.
They ignored Washington's longstanding regime change policy. As a result, an externally generated insurgency followed. In addition, the National Transitional Council (NTC) was illegitimately established with interim puppet authority for Western interests. Libyans are entirely shut out.
Nonetheless, investigators called it "internationally recognized as the Government of Libya....to oversee the transition to representative democracy."
In fact, Washington, NATO partners, and complicit regional states don't tolerate democracy or international law. Ignoring that denies reality.
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