THE GUIDE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTION CALLS FOR AN AWAKENING THE SUB-SAHARAN
AFRICAN COMMUNITIES IN THE GREAT SOCIALIST PEOPLE’S LIBYAN ARAB
JAMAHIRIYA – February 23, 2005.
Gathered together on last Monday February 7, 2005 in the conference
hall of the large building of the Mahari hotel of Tripoli, the
chiefs and representatives of the African communities of the
southern Sahara got the privilege of sharing a few moments of
discussion with the international guide of the Revolution, the
brother-comrade Moammar Al Kadhafi.
It is around one o’clock that the guide Moammar Kadhafi accompanied
by some protocol members did his entry in the conference hall where
almost a score of African delegations made up of three members each
waited him already. He is welcome by a flame of acclamations and
intromission of revolutionary slogans accompanied by movements of
arm, symbol of resistance and revolution.
Shortly, He took place on the seat that was reserved to him in a
conference decor, that suddenly the protocol indicated to a
representative of the Sudanese community to present his speech in
front of all the guests in order to present the speech that was
prepared for the circumstance. Speech of a few minutes full of
eulogistic words referring to the defeats inflicted to the foreign
occupying forces in Libya, to the advent of the revolutionary
regime, the great philosophical achievements of Moammar Kadhafi
touching the Green Book, to the creation of a Jamahiriya State and
to his historical desires to unify the people and to make Arab world
and Africa a dynamic block in front of the American and European
imperialisms.
Taking the speech, the guide of the revolution makes sure that the
entire device are completed to allow all the chiefs and
representatives of the communities to listen to him well. From the
start, he excused himself owing to the fact that he would have liked
this meeting to be done at the presence of all the Africans of the
southern Sahara residing in Tripoli but he should be come up against
the difficulties of languages. He thus exhorted them to accurately
transmit the message as well as he delivers to the other Africans
established in the Great Jamahiriya field as with those who are in
Africa or in Diaspora, which content is the follow:
"African Brothers and sisters,
Representatives of the African countries established in the Great
Jamahiriya,
I am delighted to make this meeting with you because it is for our
interest to meet together at times to share things that are common
to us. I exhort you to transmit my today’s comments to all our
fellow-members and colleagues of your countries. I would have
wanted to meet everyone but I solicited you particularly because of
the difficulties of languages, since there are enough in our
countries and it is difficult for me to speak in all the African
languages.
Libya is in Africa and the Africans are on their premises in any
African country. You are here in Libya on your premise as you are
on your premise anywhere, where you go in the African continent,
which is yours. It is in this favor that I plead each time the
occasion is offered to me in the multiple conferences on top of
Africa; freedom of movement of the people, the goods, the animals in
Africa for the interest of all the Africans. All my proposals in
this direction remain and remained empty until this day.
I said to my Brothers-African leaders to be unaware of the borders
that divide us; that no one has any belief in the African borders,
product of the colonization. I also said to them that it is
necessary that we exceed the questions of passport, of customs tax,
that we treat our business in Africa without colonial borders. All
answered me and still answer me up to now, it is too early to speak
about it, and it is not possible...
When I see America with more than 50 States making the weight on the
whole world, when Europe is consolidating its power while unifying,
I say where Africa goes. Let us look at Senegal and Gambia, two
country-brothers who are consisted by the same population and the
same historical past; Rwanda and Burundi the same example; that a
Senegalese or Rwandan to reach his brother of the other Berlin
Congress’ frontier it requires a passport or any other identity
paper, I said, that should not be done. We don’t move!
What are we going to do when we are different respectively to the
borders, which bind us? You have only to see Chad and Libya, two
fields and the same environment where nothing opposes us, neither
rock, sea, nor barriers but we must be delivered papers to mutually
meet.
This is where for the moment, the hypothetical failure of the
African Union resides, the failure of the United States of Africa.
It means that the failure of the United States of Africa does not
come from Libya nor of me, but of the African governments, of your
leaders.
The African situation and that of Libya worry me too much. For your
situation in Libya or in any country in Africa, it is necessary to
accuse your leaders because they refuse to give you freedom to
move. In the case of the Great Libyan Jamahiriya, they say to me,
if an African is in Libya without a paper; that looks upon him and
not them. They must have papers that justify their nationality.
What is meaning that you are foreigners on your ground in Libya in
Africa, your continent... Thousands of Natives of Niger are here
without an official paper, which proves their origin. They live
peacefully and work even in greatest companies. Nobody disturbs
them, even the police of the proximity.
It is obvious today that the Libyans are opposing themselves to you
who do not have papers and that they regard you as foreigners in
Libya since your leaders ask of it. It is wretched to see how in
the southern Sahara, the Africans are treated in a third country. I
do not want to return any more on the episode between Nigerians and
Ghanaians at the time of President Rollins... We want that all the
Africans who are in Libya should be treated with dignity and
respect, in the same way in other African countries.
There are infamous crimes that Africans made here in the Great
Jamahiriya; between the Libyans and them and between themselves. We
want to safeguard your freedom in Libya while ensuring your medical
safety by a control of the medical expertise and your civil security
by fighting against fictitious identities, robbers, criminals and
those who do not have any official documents which cover them here.
One can be forgiven for a food he stole to eat but not the
criminals. It should be stopped what I listen to, what I watch in
the television... That a Libyan employs an African and that this
one turns over against him by raping his daughter in front of him
and by slaughtering him like an animal, carrying with him all its
economies (...)
I request that each community present here engage itself to protect
me while avoiding committing the crimes and cruelty and all that is
against Libyan manners. You should all stop; dope, murder, fake and
use of fake.
We want to all offer to the Africans who are here. We want to grant
you stays to all those who make a point of giving up cruelty and to
conform themselves. There are projects of insertion of the skilled
workers or not. Prepare the lists of your people, those who want to
work and put them at our disposal. We have many projects in
progress and Libya needs the labor. There is for example the
construction of a roadway connecting Libya to Niger and Chad. There
is a program of timbering in the area of Jouffra. All this requires
workers. Let us organize labor forces and banish the crimes.
(Talking to the secretaries of the Libyan popular committees in
charge of the foreign affairs, public security, and territorial
administration present in the conference hall), all that I have just
said here must pass to the act. I ask you to ensure the follow-up
of all that I have just said with these representatives who are
present here with us ". I thank you."
It is on this thank that the guide left the conference hall. A
conference hall mortified by the speech of the guide, thrilled by
the disappointments which were committed these last years by some
intrepid Africans of the southern Sahara.
We should remember that in one part this message of the guide
intervenes at the time when many Africans of the southern Sahara
wondered about the question of their return in their respective
countries since the Western pressures of last year against Libya
about the matter of clandestine immigration where we observed in a
gap of a few months the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
making shuttles near the Guide for his implication in this Western
fight against illegal immigration. And that in other part, the rate
of criminalities and acts of cruelties increased since 2000 all over
the Libyan territory and precisely in the zones of regroupings of
the Africans of the southern Sahara where certain communities -
without quoting them - involve themselves in criminal operations,
acts of vandalism in a country with Moslem cultural predominance
being unaware of a simple rule of politeness even when one is out of
his home.
RCM
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