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Post-Gaddafi Era Already In Sight?



Gaddafi must go - but where to? The Libyan rebels are planning for post-Gaddafi era already --


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2011-5-31 09:37


Libyan rebels applauded a G8 call for Moammar Gadhafi to go ahead of a visit on Monday by South Africa’s president for talks that officials said will focus on an "exit strategy" for the strongman. The rebels are confident that the situation will be set within just one week and Gaddafi will definitely be defeated.


"I emphasise the council's decision that prohibits any of its members from running for any post in the period following Gaddafi's fall," he said, adding: "Gaddafi has no place in Libya in the future.”


"The entire world has reached a consensus that Colonel Gadhafi and his regime have not only lost their legitimacy but also their credibility," rebel leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said in a statement from the rebels’ Benghazi bastion late on Saturday.



"I would like to welcome the position taken... by the G8 where members emphasised the necessity of Colonel Gadhafi’s departure," the statement said.



"The position taken by the G8 is reflective of the will of the international community as well as the demands and aspirations of the Libyan people."



On Friday, G8 leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States called for Gadhafi to step down after more than 40 years in the face of pro-democracy protests turned full-fledged armed revolt.



In the May 27 article by AFP, it is pointed out that in Benghazi, meanwhile, rebels are already planning for a post-Gadhafi future, appointing ambassadors and preparing a draft constitution amid fears in some quarters that the rebel National Transitional Council risks becoming a short-term government for only half the country.


In Michael J.K. Bokor’s article “Libya’s Gaddafi must go—but where to?”, it is argued that it is now clear that the political leaders serving as the driving force behind NATO’s military campaign in Libya are determined not to listen to reason to use other means than the military campaign of devastation to resolve the conflict between the legitimate government headed by Muammar al-Gaddafi and the Benghazi-based rebels and their Transitional National Council.



Despite much criticism of their insistence on using only the military option—and in spite of the massive devastation of Libyan infrastructure, innocent civilians, and military capabilities already carried out—these political leaders still think that what they have chosen to tackle the Libyan crisis is the best and must not be supplanted with any other option.



NATO can step up its bombardment and hope to end the fighting in Libya but that’s not likely to happen soon. Asking Gaddafi “to go,” is simple but getting him to go is the real problem. Now torn between death at the hands of NATO or stepping down only to be hauled to the International Criminal Court, it is obvious that Gaddafi has nowhere to seek relief. He won’t offer himself to his enemies. The best option for him is to prolong the fighting by any means possible.



The latest batch of proposals that he has offered has been rejected, as we can tell from Spain’s response to it. Gaddafi knows that whether he steps down or not, he has no future and will choose to die a martyr as he has already indicated.





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