Colonel Gaddafi, who s'accorche dangerously in power in Libya since its population has switched the protests in the wake of Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions is a test for the international community.
In the 1990s, a series of interventions called "humanitarian" have been authorized by the UN to protect civilians identified as victims or targets of armed conflict. The operation was launched the most famous in the former Yugoslavia to "protect" populations against Bosnian Serb militias ... These missions have been and with reasons, strongly criticized, because they often favored the expansion target territorial application of a Greater Serbia by helping to move the civilian population to avoid the massacres ... Their ineffectiveness and ridicule of their mandate (mission of "peace" in war zone!) Is also very important in any revaluation of such missions. Therefore we no longer speak of "right of humanitarian intervention " but the "Responsibility to Protect " civilians face of regimes that fail to do so or threaten their populations.
Still, the ambition of the international community and the role of the UN remain associated with this responsibility : preserve peace and security, enhance human life and protect civilians in conflict zones . The air exclusion zones authorized by the UN in Iraq throughout the 1990s were intended to prevent the regime of Saddam Hussein bombed his Kurdish origin, known as hostile to his authority.
The bloody and arrogant Colonel Qaddafi has a political career like that of Saddam Hussein. He came to power in 1969 under an Arab nationalist label instead. In the 1980s, Libya became a state funder and promoter of international terrorism, a notorious anti-Western. Gradually, the Gaddafi regime has slipped réislamiser its political space. Then, his rhetoric has become pan-African and anti-terrorism after September 2001, to become a creep ... Today, before this extraordinary show of strength of character and courage of the Arab peoples, he is about to die a martyr ...
There is another parallel between Saddam and Qaddafi Mouhamar: both have, over time, established an authoritarian and focused on their clans. ( See this excellent article on the issue of tribes in Libya )
What will the international community? And the Arab regimes in transition like Egypt and Tunisia, the two immediate neighbors? It is a real test for the credibility of the UN, the U.S. and the Arab League ...
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