Under the puppet Libyan Monarchy, Libya had one of the lowest standards of living on the Planet. Small wonder they were exiled.

Read the story below.

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Exiled Libyan monarchy shamelessly admit their role in fomenting Libyan war

‘The Libyan monarchy of Idris, which was based in Benghazi, was installed by the United States and British in the 1950’s to oversee their economic and military interests in North Africa. Libya in 1951, under the leadership of King Idris, officially had the lowest standards of Living in the world. The Idris monarchy was overthrown in a bloodless revolution led by Muammar al-Gaddafi in 1969. This led to the American Wheelus Air Base (The largest American base outside of US at that time) being dismantled and the American and British armed forces stationed in Libya evacuating. The western oil companies were then nationalised.’

‘The uprising in Libya, which has been portrayed by many in the west as a democratic movement, has been symbolised by the tri-coloured rebel flag. The flag is in fact the flag of the oppressive, undemocratic, monarchy of Idris. At the start of the conflict elements of the rebels in Benghazi held aloft pictures of King Idris. Whilst by no means are all the rebels monarchists, it is however important to highlight the overthrown Libyan monarchy’s history,  influence in Benghazi and relationship with the West. It is of no surprise then that the exiled monarchy of Idris has played a hidden hand in this conflict. Closely working with their old allies in NATO in an attempt to regain their lost status in Libya and ‘return to democracy’ as his Royal Highness Prince Idris bizarrely and unashamedly declares in his CNN interview.’

taken from the website of the Global Civilians For Peace In Libya

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As a colony of the United Nations, it shouldn’t take too long before Libya has once again one of the lowest standards of living in the World.

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Africans United In Defense Of Libya

They give the real reasons for this attack on Libya. Below I will provide an excerpt from their webpage.

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 …  The real reasons for attack on Libya

The claim that the imperialists are attacking Libya for the purpose of rescuing the people of Libya from Gaddafi’s oppressive rule is a lie and a contradiction in terms.

It is like the Israeli State going to war with Hamas in Palestine, to free Palestinians and Palestine from the Israeli settler State.

France or the U.S. cannot save anybody from imperialist control, because they are the problem.

The primary obstacle to democracy everywhere is U.S. government; Gaddafi’s rule is a secondary issue.

Is it the fault of Gaddafi that the native Indians in America have been wiped out?

Is it Gaddafi’s armies who occupy Iraq and Afghanistan?

Is it Gaddafi who keeps 65 percent of CFA currencies used by 14 African countries in an operational bank account in France for the benefit of France?

Is it Gaddafi who funded the genocide of over five million people in Congo?

No, it is the U.S. and French governments that have done and are doing these things.

It is in this context of balance of power that the attack on Libya and Gaddafi’s regime must be understood.

An imperialist Europe and North America and an independent Africa cannot exist together; one comes at the expense of the other.

Gaddafi is known to be unpredictable, which means he is not a reliable puppet of the West.

Gaddafi is petty bourgeois, but he is his own man, and the potential of this man to be independent is also the potential of Africa and the African working class to be independent.

Libya is being invaded in order to bring it back under a compliable, malleable neocolonial rule.

French, Britain, German and other imperialists do not care about the Arab masses in Libya — or in Palestine, Iraq, Bahrain or anywhere else.

The attack on Libya is a desperate white imperialist attempt to end Gaddafi’s power over the region, which already recently has purged itself of two of the white capitalist powers’ key allies.

The west has a problem with Gaddafi because he is anti-Zionist, because his influence in sub-Saharan Africa is on the rise, and because they know he would readily purchase influence wherever such an opportunity and the possibility of alliances with emerging powers might present itself.

For example, it has been reported that Gaddafi “set up the $5 billion Libya Africa Investment Portfolio in 2006, investing in countries as far apart as Madagascar and Rwanda.

“Gaddafi was willing to back up his rhetoric on Africa with money.

“The Libya Africa Investment Portfolio has stakes in gasoline stations in Cameroon and Ethiopia, mobile-phone networks in Rwanda and Ivory Coast and a 506,000-hectare logging concession and sawmill in the Republic of Congo, according to its website.

“[The portfolio] also has shares in mining companies in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and poultry farms in Togo and Madagascar.”

All these factors explain the decision by the United States, Britain and others to invade Libya.

The aggression on Libya is the response by the western capitalist powers to the rise of popular movements throughout the region. It is also an extension of the colonial war policy started in Iraq by George Bush that has now been extended by Obama into Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia.

The U.S. counteroffensive also includes military aggression against democratic forces in Bahrain.

The U.S. uses democratic aspirations and “demands of the masses” of Libya as a cover while it pursues an imperialist agenda, which is the maintenance of a balance of power in the region that is favorable to itself.

Clearly, these aggressions are about maintaining colonial control over African’s resources.

If western imperialists are so concerned about the plight of Arab masses, wouldn’t they bomb the Israelis, who have used F16 jets to bomb defenseless Palestinians, or enter Bahrain, whose people are currently suffering a serious crackdown by an absolutist monarch?

It has been reported that after weeks of demonstrations, protesters, largely Shiites, which make up 65 percent of the population asking for a ‘constitutional parliament’.

They have come under a brutal assault in Bahrain where Hamad Al Khalifah, the Sunni King of the Bahrain regime now has the extra support of the Saudi Arabia who has sent over 1000 troops to help to crack down on freedom protesters, mostly Shiite, following them even to the hospital to finish them off.

One doctor said troops and police had been conducting constant searches, entering wards with sniffer dogs, and that they had split the casualties off from other patients.

“‘I went in on Thursday to operate and soldiers came into the room with their boots on and machine guns, right into the operating theater,’ said another doctor.

“‘We tried to tell them this is not acceptable. While I was operating they came three or four times. We were reconstructing the jaw of a man who had been shot in the face and had a shattered jaw… and it was affecting our concentration’.”  …