Reply #81: I don't hold out much hope. [View All]

[tabatha]

Gaddafi has bought and paid for all the leaders of Africa, including South Africa. (Much like the Koch brothers have bought and paid for a bunch of politicans.)

“If Africa’s leaders held their peers to account there would be no need for the people of Libya to suffer human rights violations,” said founder of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. “And there would be no need for United Nations sanctioned military interventions in Libya.

“Instead, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has for more than 40 years honed his skills in the art of resource management to win friends and influence people. And as a result, Africa seems powerless to stop him.

“The scenes of brutality being meted out with sophisticated weaponry by Libyan security forces against their own civilian population make God weep. With every blow they strike, each human rights abuse they perpetrate, they bring shame on Africa,” Archbishop Tutu said.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201103210790.html

Tutu knows Africa and its leaders. He calls a spade a spade.