The mission, according to a U.N. mandate, is to protect civilians in Libya from attacks by Mr Qadhafi’s forces. The price which is paid by Libyan citizens for that safety is so high.NATO’s military intervention is creating problems by heavy bombing and shelling support to rebel body, the transitional national council (TNC); and atrocities by both sides have been reported. Talking about loss or price paid by western countries interfering in Libyan civil war, outcome of United Nations Security Council resolution1973- which bars landings by foreign forces but allows member states to use “all necessary means”(diplomatic terminology for military action) to ensure Libyan compliance with Resolution. Humanitarian interventions conceived by U.S., the United Kingdom, and France under cover of the U.N. has meant using highly advanced weaponry in helping the TNC, which includes militant islamists of the sort who have been fighting NATO and other western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan for a decade, to bring about violent regime change.
The entire rebellion and the NATO campaign are riddled with inconsistencies. Western proponents initially claimed the campaign would be over in days. It has lasted six months, is yet to end , and has cost the U.S. alone more than a billion dollars, secondly, there are severe tensions among the TNC’s three main factions; it is still not known who murdered the rebels’ top officer, General Abdel Fattah younes. Furthermore, many leaders among the Libyan 140 tribes, including long standing Qadhafi supporters, will want office in the new order. Above all, the western powers will almost certainly exact a heavy price for supporting the uprising. Their demands are likely to include-as they did in Iraq- preferential, if not monopoly, access for western oil corporations. It is no coincidence that as reports emerged of the rebel advance on Tripoli, the price of Brent crude fell 1.7 per cent to 106.8 dollars per barrel in futures trading. There are also likely to be lucrative contracts for western companies to rebuild Libyan cities; and the European Union members of NATO may want the new government to impose tight controls on Libyan migration to the EU. In effect, the U.S., Britain and France, with help from Italy, have used the U.N. and NATO to bring about regime change and pull off a gigantic oil-grab.
Violence in Libya is the main concern of worry for Libyan citizens and NATO. Violence has been renewed in Tripoli because of military intervention going on in Libya so NATO and western countries are also responsible for violence in Libya but it is creating problems for citizens living in those violent areas. The crackle of gunfire and the rumble of explosions spread across Tripoli in fighting going on between qadhafi’s supporters and rebels.Saif-al-Islam, muammar qadhafi’s son is heading those counterattacks on rebels. On basis of some recent videos released by some press reports or T.V. channels, videos showed billows of smoke rising above several districts and heavy clashes around Mr Qadhafi’s compound. The waves of gunfire drowned out the rebels’ earlier euphoria after their lighting strike into Tripoli .NATO officials in Brussels and London said the alliance’s warplanes were flying reconnaissance and other missions over Libya but declined to say whether the planes had bombed the fortified Qadhafi compound in Tripoli. Colonel Roland Lavoie, a NATO spokesperson said that their mission is not over yet and at a news conference in Naples, Italy, urging pro-Qadhafi forces to return to their barracks and said they would carry on the mission. He also acknowledged that urban environment in Tripoli, a city of some two million, was “far more complex “for air strikes. While rebel leaders professed making progress in securing Tripoli and planning for a post –Qadhafi government, and international leaders hailed the beginnings of a new era in Libya, the immediate aftermath of the invasion was a vacuum of power, with no cohesive rebel government still in evidence.Published by VIKAS YADAV.
