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April 28, 2011
Representatives of 61 Tribes from across Libya Call for Gaddafi to Step Down
By Mac McKinney
While trying to tell the world that all Lybians (except for the "rats", he decries) love him while simultaneously slaughtering thousands of them thus far, now we have yet another monkey wrench thrown into his propaganda machine: chiefs or reps from 61 Lybian tribes have signed a document asking him to step down, although some tribes are 100% behind their rep, others only partially, to be exact.
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It is getting harder and harder for pro-Gaddafi apologists and propagandists to spin the core conflict in Lybia as anything other than what it has always been, a nationwide uprising against a brutal tyrant, as one can discern from this latest news, which was originally broken by AFP and has been picked up by the media globally.
Even so, many spinners will keep trying.
From al Jazeera Live Blog of April 27:
"Faced with the threats weighing on the unity of our country, faced with the manoeuvres and propaganda of the dictator and his family, we solemnly declare: Nothing will divide us," said the text, drawn up in Benghazi on April 12.
"The Libya of tomorrow, once the dictator has gone, will be a united Libya, with Tripoli as its capital and where we will at last be free to build a civil society according to our own wishes," it predicted.
He told the AFP news agency the statement had been prepared in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi, but had been circulated around the country, and had now been endorsed by many influential tribal leaders in areas where Gaddafi still holds sway.
"Each of the tribes in Libya is represented by at least a representative. In this list of 61 signatures, some tribes are represented 100 per cent, others are still divided," he said.
Levy has published the statement on the website of his magazine, La Regle du Jeu, including scans of the original handwritten signatures in Arabic (pictured below).
"We form, we the Libyans, a single and united tribe - the tribe of free Libyans, battling against oppression and the wicked genie of division," it reads, according to the French translation of the text.
Authors Bio:
I am a student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and a tempered advocate for the ultimate manifestation of peace, justice and the unity of humankind through self-realization and mutual respect, although I am not a pacifist, nor do I believe in peace at any price, which is no peace at all but only delays inevitable conflict. There are times when the world must act. Planetary consciousness is evolving, but there are many retrograde forces that would drag us back down.
I have also written one book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck. Go to the store at http://sanfranciscobaypress.com/ to purchase. And I also have a blog called Plutonian Mac.