Gaddafi's Genocide Against Libyans'

Libya's Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Ibrahim Dabbashi says UN Security Council's statement on Libya "not strong enough" and that genocide is underway in the country.

9:59AM GMT 23 Feb 2011
Courtesy Of "The Telegraph"



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Hours after a defiant Gaddafi vowed to crush a growing revolt against his 41-year rule, the UN Security Council urged the Libyan authorities to act with restraint, respect human rights and grant immediate access to rights monitors and aid agencies. Libya's government should also respect freedom of assembly, of expression and of the press, it added.

Mr Dabbashi went further to say he has confirmed that Gaddafi has launched an attack on the people and even called it a "genocide".

"He managed to have some of his colleagues in the army and they gathered some units and now they are attacking the people in all the cities in western Libya," Mr Dabbashi said.

"Certainly the people have no arms and I think now the genocide started now in Libya, and the code was the Gaddafi statement was just a code for his collaborators to start the genocide against the Libyan people" he added.

Despite Mr Dabbashi's comments, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant defended the statement, calling it strong because it had the backing of all 15 council members.

Mr Dabbashi and other staff at the Libyan mission to the United Nations first broke ranks with Muammar Gaddafi's regime on Monday to condemn the Libyan leader's use of force against his people.