A delegation of Libyan tribes is visiting Moscow. Bassem al-Hashemi Sol, the press secretary of a Libyan tribal association, spoke about the aims of the visit and the current situation in Libya in an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia.
Continue after the break."The aim of our visit is to give the Russian side the true picture of what is happening in Libya. In other words, we came to Russia to seek media support because the situation in Libya is heavily distorted in world media.
Gross
and ubiquitous violations of human rights have become part of our daily
life. Prisoners are tortured in our jails and our streets have turned
into a black arms market. When asked whether a democratic government
came to power in Libya after the death of Gaddafi, we answer that armed
groups, mostly radical Islamist organizations, came to power in our
country.
This
and many other things displease Libyans. We are planning to hold a
large rally in front of the Libyan embassy in Moscow on Friday. There
have been lively debates in mass media lately about the alleged
forthcoming cession of Cyrenaica from Libya. But I assure you that all
the Libyan tribes are now preparing for a countrywide unification, so
all questions of secession and division will be closed once and for all.
We will put an end to this madness that swept our country after the
false ‘Arab Spring’. The United States and al-Qaeda which have recently
played a piece of buffoonery, first kidnapping and then releasing Prime
Minister Ali Zeidan, will cease to rule our country.
It’s
unclear what precisely they threatened to do with the premier, but he
was not talkative after the release and even failed to describe his
abductors. The incident is further proof that one is free do anything in
our country: rob banks or kidnap ministers – all unpunished…
The
international community does not send human rights experts to us
because they know what kind of report they will receive from Libya. The
international community knows well that there are exclusively Gaddafi
supporters in our prisons and they are tortured daily and held in
abhorrent conditions. Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners are
suffering from diseases caused by the absence of hygiene and medical
services.
A
question arises why not a single country in the world attempts to find
out what’s happened to the $200 billion of Libya’s assets frozen in
foreign banks. The answer is clear – because the money has long been
divided between Western politicians and al-Qaeda which helped them
conquer Libya.
Today,
Libya is part of an international mechanism used by al-Qaeda to achieve
its goals. Abdel Wahab al-Qayed, a member of the General National
Congress [Libya’s parliament] is the third man in al-Qaeda. He and
premier Ali Zeidan work together as a smooth mechanism.
We
have unpublished video tapes of youths, including teenagers, being
trained for subsequent fighting in Syria. The pseudo mufti of Libya is
paid for his radical fatwas in which he urges people to kill the
‘unfaithful’ in Syria and join terrorist ranks.
We have collected all
that video evidence and it will be published soon.
The
Libyan people are fed up with that. I can assure you that large-scale
changes will occur in our country soon. Those changes will be carried
out by all the people of Libya, all its tribes."
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