Libyan UN diplomats say Gadhafi should step down (& urge International Criminal Court investigation)

[Turborama]

Source: AP Via The Washington Post

The Associated Press
Monday, February 21, 2011; 1:17 PM

UNITED NATIONS -- Libya's ambassadors at the United Nations are calling for leader Moammar Gadhafi to step down as the country's ruler.

Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi said Monday that if Gadhafi does not reliqniquish power, "the Libyan people will get rid of him."

Dabbashi urged the international community to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent mercenaries, weapons and other supplies from reaching Gadhafi and his security forces.

Dabbashi also said he was not resigning.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022102953.html

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Read on for the details about them calling the ICC to investigate Gadhafi's "crimes against humanity".

[maddezmom]

1. kick

[maddezmom]

2. Libya’s U.N. Diplomats Break With Qaddafi

Members of Libya’s mission to the United Nations publicly repudiated Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Monday, calling him a genocidal war criminal responsible for mass shootings of demonstrators protesting against his four decades in power. They called upon him to resign.

The repudiation, led by Libya’s deputy permanent representative at a news conference at the mission’s headquarters in New York, amounted to the most high-profile defection of Libyan diplomats in the anti-Qaddafi uprising that has convulsed Libya over the past week.

“We are sure that what is going on now in Libya is crimes against humanity and crimes of war,” the deputy permanent representative, Ibrahim Dabbashi, told reporters in the ground-floor lobby of the Libyan mission on Manhattan’s East Side, adorned by a large portrait of Colonel Qaddafi in tribal dress atop a white horse.

About a dozen of Mr. Dabbashi’s colleagues stood behind him as he spoke, looking tense and nervous.

more:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world/africa/22nations.html?src=twrhp

[DLnyc]

3. UPDATE 1-Libyan U.N. mission declares allegiance to people

Source: Reuters

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 21 (Reuters) - The staff of Libya's mission to the United Nations declared allegiance to the people of Libya, instead of to its government led by Muammar Gaddafi, a mission spokesman said on Monday.

"The members of the Libyan mission are representing only the Libyan people and not anyone else," the spokesman, Dia al-Hotmani, said by telephone.

. . .

Hotmani said that at a meeting on Monday at offices in New York, members of the mission "expressed our sense of concern about the genocide going on in Libya."

. . .

Hotmani said he was speaking on behalf of all members of the Libyan mission up to the deputy permanent representative, Ibrahim Dabbashi. He declined comment on the attitude or whereabouts of the permanent representative, Abdurrahman Shalgham.



Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFN2122551120110221

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Deputy Ambassador was on Aljazeera Live Stream. Has NOT resigned. Calling for
o Gaddafi to step down.
o A no-fly zone to be imposed over Libya
o Says he serves the people of Libya, not Gaddafi

(No link yet, I will keep looking)
Here is one:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201102219941/Libya-Politics/libyan-ambassador-to-un-urges-international-community-to-stop-genocide.html
. . .
"We are calling on the UN to impose a no-fly zone on all Tripoli to cut off all supplies of arms and mercenaries to the regime.
. . .

I also posted this second article directly:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4742019

So, my point, there ARE things that can be done.

[HereSince1628]

4. It's better than having them NOT back the people.

:thumbsup:

I am not sure they can stop the killing of people seeking to be FREE.

[gtar100]

5. Very good sign.

[Solly Mack]

6. knr

[Turborama]

7. Statements made by various defecting Libyan diplomats from around the world

Here: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201122275739377867.html

[pampango]

8. UN facing calls for action over Libya

http://www.euronews.net/2011/02/22/un-facing-calls-for-action-over-libya/

The Security Council is to meet in closed session amid calls for international action to protect Libyan citizens from the wrath of their rulers.

Libyan diplomats who have broken away from the regime have been explaining their decision. “We have never been with Gaddafi, we are with the people,” said Ibrahim Dabbashi, deputy ambassador to the UN. “We just made a statement to ask the international community to intervene to do something to help the Libyan people who are facing genocide in Tripoli. Also (they are) facing crimes against humanity in all the eastern cities of Libya.”

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he spoke to Gaddafi yesterday and urged him to stop the violence. “I have seen very disturbing and shocking scenes where Libyan authorities have been firing at demonstrators from warplanes and helicopters,” he said. “This is unacceptable. This must stop immediately. This is a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”

The international community is voicing concern but it is facing calls for immediate measures, such as a no-fly zone above Libya to stop mercenaries from coming in.

[Overseas]

9. K&R! //nt