“The PSC decided to authorize the current authorities in Libya to occupy the seat of Libya in the AU organs,” the PSC said in a statement late Thursday.
NTC fighters reportedly captured the former leader alive before killing him, during the battle for his hometown of Sirte.
Earlier, the AU had insisted that it would only lift the suspension of Libya after the NTC agreed to protect the interest of the migrant workers, mainly from the sub-Saharan Africa, who have been harassed, arrested and detained by the NTC fighers.
Pana 20/10/2011
Source: http://www.afriquejet.com/photo-gaddafi-death-video-2011102125501.html
Special Comment: Gaddafi’s death: African Union lifts Libya’s suspension
Very strange news! It looks like the PSC was looking for the slightest opportunity to recognize the NTC ‘without prejudice’ to the relevant laws, which ban unconstitutional governments from occupying power. The fact that they would use the case of the treatment of the human rights African migrants as a precondition for the recognition ought not to be exclusive of mandated constitutive obligations of the PSC. It is not in the power of the PSC to overrule its own constitutive resolution.
Furthermore, there should be no reason to suppose that the kind of barbarism associated with the capture and extra-judicial execution should be allowed to invade and contaminate the African Union and throw the Rule of Law out of the door! Is the PSC saying that it is not right for any group of people, soldiers or civilians, to take up arms and stage a coup d’etat or a civil war, but if they manage to capture and execute the President, then it is right? Is that this precedence not more in favour of war and insecurity than what the AU Peace and Security Council ought to be seen to be promoting?
Would it not have been better to maintain the suspension until the NTC has successfully conducted the elections they themselves have been talking about in a few months? The claim that because the rebels of a country have been able to extra-judicially execute a head of state, they can now walk in and take their seat as a new government is an insult to the struggle for the rule of law, the respect for human rights and the Peace and Security of every African! One may find nothing wrong with the recognition itself because the AU has virtually done so, but the reason given by the PSC to circumvent their own terms of reference is mind boggling!
They must be made to rectify this as quickly as possible! This is a challenge to all those who love peace and security to reign in Africa. Our vision of Africa should not include rebels rushing to Addis Ababa with the heads of their Heads of state on a silver platter as the sole qualification for membership of the club. One would have thought that the AU would in addition to the issue of the treatment of migrants, added a call for investigations into the manner Col. Gaddafi who it appears was captured alive and dragged through the street, died.
The killing of Gaddafi is certainly not the best pretext to reward the NTC with a membership of the PSC. The International Solidarity Committee of the Pan-Africanist International condemns this contamination of the PSC by the way they have admitted the NTC into their midst. We call on all Africans who care about the gravity of such a precedence to oppose it.
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
Nana Akyea Mensah
International Solidarity Committee
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