?Please, save Libya?

“We are being systematically wiped out. Gaddafi is doing to us what Hitler did to the Jews. He is killing us one by one.”

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Benghazi - ‘Please, please. We need doctors, medicines and guns. We need to end this massacre. We need to stop this now.”

This was the impassioned plea of Professor Mohammad Hussain to the international community from his office in Benghazi’s Hawari General Hospital.

Hussain, addressing South African media, fought back tears as he made his call for Libya to be saved. Hussain is the hospital’s head. “Please save us. Please help us. Don’t let us die. Don’t let this madman murder any more of our children.

‘Give us guns so that we can stop him. Give us the tools so that we can end this once and for all,” he cried as his emotions overcame him.

For Hussain, like his cousin Mahdi Zaiwa who blew himself up in a car bomb attack on the government’s secret police Al Fadael compound in the battle for Benghazi in February, the tyranny of dictator Muammar Gaddafi has become to much. “I cannot take it. It is just too much. Every day I see the broken bodies of men, women and children, shot, kicked and beaten.

“We are being systematically wiped out. Gaddafi is doing to us what Hitler did to the Jews. He is killing us one by one, street by street, corner by corner, house by house.”

Recalling his cousin’s actions, Hussain said he blew himself up in his car which was filled with cooking gas bottles, oil and explosives.

“He was not a fanatic. He was a kind, decent person, but he just had too much. He was sick of seeing the children dying, the women being killed and men being maimed.

“He snapped. All he wanted was for it to stop. He just could not take it any more. Things build inside you. The drive for freedom, the sadness for your friends and family. But, no more. Boom!” he said.

Hussain said they had tried talking “kindly”, but no one was listening to their message. “Gaddafi holds our future in his hands. He is closing his hands and crushing us to death. We will stop this, if not today or tomorrow then next month. We will stop this madman because we have no other alternative.

“If we are to live then we are to stop him,” he said.

Recalling witnessing the hanging of nine university student representatives in public in 1976, and the massacre of 1 276 imprisoned soldiers who rioted for better food and medical attention, Hussain said thousands of people had been killed without the world knowing.

“Gaddafi has committed crimes against humanity. He has killed again and again and will continue to kill until he is stopped. We will never forget what this animal has done. We will remember the terror. Our children will remember and our grandchildren will remember.”

Sarcastically, fellow doctor Zaroug Nabous, who heads the hospital’s emergency room, said February was a special month for Libya – the month of terror.

“This country is being destroyed. It is being pulled apart bit by bit and everything inside it killed off.

“Every day for two weeks I have picked up the bodies and pieces of bodies of children. They are shot, butchered, beaten and tortured. When we try to help, Gaddafi stops us by closing hospitals.

“Why has the international world not done anything? What are they waiting for, more people to die, more children to be massacred?

“These delays are like adding benzine to the fire. Libya will continue to burn until something is done to stop this murder,” he said. - Pretoria News

Source: http://www.iol.co.za/please-save-libya-1.1042481

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