Thursday, March 24, 2011

A letter to the Arab League

Recently the Arab League asked the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone over the skies if Libya. After the United Nations agreed and put together the forces of many nations to implement this very complicated endeavor the Arab League complained about civilian casualties and wanted the bombing mission to stop. Arab League leaders, where have you been in condemning the following issues:
Tunisia- In February police shoot into a crowd of protesting killing 2.
Egypt- More than 360 killed in revolution by government forces.
Syria- Syrian police kill 15 anti-government protestors in March bringing the death toll to 22.
Yemen- In March 50 anti-government protesters killed by Yemeni forces.
Bahrain- At least 12 killed by government forces.
Oman- In February 6 protestors killed by security forces.
Libya- In February Libyan forces fire on a funeral killing 12 of their own citizens. Human Rights Watch claims the death toll in Libya is over 170.
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During all these atrocities by Arab governments where was the Arab League to condemn the activity of the Arab Dictators? Not one word from the Arab League to denounce the use of force by an Arab government killing their Arab citizens.
Why is the Arab League silent to these atrocities? If the Arab League wants to be a major player in the Arab community they need to show some courage and support the Arab people that are brutalized by Arab rulers. It is remarkable that the Arab League calls upon the west to solve an Arab problem and then is first to condemn how the west does it.
The Arab League needs to start to police its own issues so that the west can stay out of their regional issues. The villains in this situation are not the west that is there cleaning up what the Arab League would not do, the villains are the dictators that are brutalizing their own Arab citizens and the only people willing to stop the atrocities are the western powers. This must change if the Arab League wishes to be considered a legitimate entity in the region.

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