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The European Union itself refuses to recognize the democratically elected leader of venezuela i think our viewers will understand that you know there is a commonality of oil most of your resources all of these countries what mistakes were made say in terms of media and what should these countries be very aware of as they fight certainly the European Union as far as as well as concerned let alone the superpower of the middle east or rather we were very aware of internal weaknesses and khadafi was aware of the problems we had inside libya 1st of all libya is a revenue economy relying on oil and we did not succeed and changing the economy into a productive participatory economy after decades it was an environmental revolution didley very solar panels well we had many developmental projects and we did build many houses schools the Health System the libyan Human Development index conducted by the un places libya very very high at the time but our main failure is that people remained reliant on oil and the fluctuations of oil prices and when you have a revenue economy people fight over it because it feels like like the spoils and if people are productive workers and if they own what they produce they will feel differently about their country and about their place in society i think the 2nd mistake is that we did not deepen our political democratic system. To be as inclusive as possible and to be localized we did this for a while successfully in the seventys eightys and good part of the ninetys but because of foreign pressure outside and because of mistakes were made we centralized the political process in the capital tripoli and we realized a little bit too much on tribal structure and instead of civil one. In coordination with the libyan culture i think the 3rd mistake was that we relied on the revolutionary context in africa that did not exist. Its the nature of being subordinated to not have a revolutionary conscience consciousness and can rely on the african nations and the ordinary African People to rise up with him and to support him and defend the liberation project that he had but we were not brought tech to the how did this possibly happen because i mean you can rejigger virus diaries about israel did in congo yes why did you and other members of the Libyan Government not recognize that these failures were now in demick in a system that the north was for the 1st time i mean there are many great leaders like. Nasser mandela but they did not have the actual a project on the ground in libya we were fortunate enough to have a stronger evolutionary system we had the economic means and we have the position to start these genuine liberation projects like the African Central Bank and the unified currency on the african army and the organization for the African Resources and the Satellite Network unified as well and we did achieve the initial stages of these projects and we believed that with the presence of some good African Leaders in evolutionary leaders that we would be able to work something out and we succeed we had a Great Success with the African Union which was declared in the city of certain 999. 00 in the month of september. But i think the west recognized the danger of all of this and they realized that this is not just singing and music and dreaming this is real work on the ground that would make africa independent and would deprive the capitalist global capitalist machine from the oil that. Keeps it going namely the african wealth to have an african continent strong productive with participatory politics and democracy and with a unified army and instead of the american. Command in africa and the french g 5 s. Force this is something that the system cannot digest the global system of capitalism this is something that needs to be stopped and we heard this from european diplomats and we heard this from people all around the continent this is known and understood by everyone in africa it might not be as understood by ordinary people in the west but it is the case libya was destroyed for its african liberation dream make no mistake about that was another mistake thinking that moscow and beijing would support. The revolution this is another lesson we could the 4th lesson is that you need to fight in unity with others one of the mistakes of libya is that it was alone we did not have an alliance that would support us in any sudden confrontation. With syria for a year for example although he was aware of this he visited venezuela in 2009 and he proposed the establishment of saito as opposed to nato you know so the north atlantic its south atlantic between africa and latin america and who got the initial agreement by a few latin american countries with the revolutionary governments and also he worked very hard to convince some african nations to join this effort so he was aware of the need of a global context of unity but he did not have the time they attacked him on. A year and a half after he proposed saito have some connection there so what is the Green Resistance Movement today what does it do because the news about libya centers on the british and un mandated government of National Accord and general haftar when you establish afshin and national government. In a foreign land im a libyan is a can well thats so when security comes over or said. You brought supposedly there was brought democracy. Everything that is good to the country you know in the back of iraq it was a real Resistance Movement rejects and it rejects general haftar is well 1st of all the real Resistance Movement is not just like a political fraction of the country we represent the vast majority of the libyan people even our enemies inside libya the asians of nato they admit that and there isnt say publicly oh no they sung the big no you mean you know they say it publicly on libyan media they admitted to it they know that the majority of the libyan people fought on the side of khadafi. If you listen to them their leaders they say this they say ok duffy use the tribal structure of the country to have an alliance between tribes for him but this is the culture of the country and if the people are on one side the vast majority then you should be on the side of the people how did the generals how did you serve well its just sheer luck i mean we fought for me my rule of course was a political one was not a fighting one but with the collapse of tripoli i had to withdraw to the city of many will eat and there we. Were lead and the city of sirte we led the military resistance for 3 months lets remember that libya stood very tall for 8 months facing 44. 00 countries including the mighty nato now if gadhafi was isolated and no one was with him and the libyan people wanted to rebel against him how could he have is qaddafi is some sort of magician how could he sed staub netas attack and face it for 8 months. If the libyan people were not on his side we where the many we were the majority and we fought and most you know many comrades and many friends died and by sheer luck we survived i left the country in the month of november 2011 a whole month after the martyrdom of the great leader khadafi and i left to reorganize ourselves and we did that and we have a great figures of the resistance we have safe. Duffy who is a great guy with a great vision for the country you believe years supporting the country and hes going to reserve to election if you listen to libyan t. V. And if you read libyan media they know even those who are against us or the agents of the west they know safe in islam is allowed to enter the political context that he will get the support of most libyan people but why should people take my word for it lets have an inclusive political system as they claimed from the beginning and lets allow all libyans to decide their future without International Intervention which we called for in 2011 we called for a National Conference led that conference be only libyan land supervised maybe by the African Union. And nick libyans decide what they want for the future the west doesnt want that because they know what the libyans which they know they were true is the green the resistance they would choose. A path to the future that does not suit what the west wants so they chose to manage the crisis manage the chaos keep it growing was able stop you there. For this break. Not long ago it was russia russia russia now its Ukraine Ukraine ukraine what partisan hacks in biased media wont tell you is why ukraine has become part of americas Political Drama you always hear a cheer. For this collection too long to last him should ask for the last company and seeing him down the rest of the match. Branching just. Leaching long. You look or so said im not going much to me mama just back ya know. Welcome back im still with was abraham former spokesperson to Muammar Gadhafi i know i dont have to tell you that the cia has a long history of assassination attempts against revolutionary leaders you know frightened and that Moammar Gadhafi is unsafe such a unifying figure as you make him out to be will be the subject of an assassination attempt we are all under threat as i said we have been politically going to security would we have been many attempts to silence us to imagine their eyes us and there are fears for the life of many of our leaders we. Our own leaders of resistance die every day in libya they are in the fight and their main target are the agents of nato what we call nato is contras in libya and we know that within a particular time not far into the future we will gain libya back not in favor of a political ideology or about particular political regime but in favor of all libyans of an inclusive political and Economic System that would guarantee that libya goes back to its liberation to its projects of african liberation of being a sovereign state of being an independent state dignified state not a state in chaos managed by the west and there is your understanding that Moammar Gadhafi is unsafe will run in any future election and in a democratic vote here. Would win the vote well its very important 1st to establish what kind of political context will exist because we are very much aware of how the west manipulates the political process and how they manage to keep the crisis going while benefiting from its consequences so for us the heart of the matter is not for safe to run for presidency but for see if they agree in the resistance to represent their alternative to the crisis and to gather the libyan people around them and to defeat the foreign conspiracy against the country and to get libya back how is he how is he survived a tall is it your understanding he was attacked by british backed islamists who have been trying to kill him would you say after the nato. He was with his comrades he was bombed by nato in 2011 in which he was injured and then he was captured by a militia but they treated him quite well and then the militias became their his very own supporters and protectors and of course the terrorists and nato contras are trying to get to him because they know here presents a very popular alternative in the country. Safe is a very intelligent man he is a truly decent human being he is not seeking power as such what he is seeking is the protection of libya and hes using his credibility as the son of the leader to gather people around and to have a dialogue he has called nonstop in the last few years for our National Conference for everyone including the islamists including his own enemies and he said lets sit together as libyans discuss our. Differences and reach a point of agreement and he is very genuine about this i mean safe is famous for leading discussion and dialogue with the islamists at the time of our evolutionary system and he was successful at that time in making many hundreds and hundreds of reviews terrorists leave their weapons aside and their ideologies and come and become integrated in Libyan Society but can any National Movement like the scene without. You and we are against that reaction we are against what do you think of syria than syria were told very nearly fell into the hands of. Western support moderate rebels socalled moderate rebels. What can possibly turn the tide in your country do you think because its still. Our point of strength is the libyan people we need to continue building up a culture of revolutionary consciousness and we need to convince the very small fraction of the libyan population who work for the west that their choices are wrong we have succeeded immensely in this many many people who are part of the conspiracy against their own country they have left that behind and we are comrades now we talk we discuss we collaborate with Work Together so we need to continue building up this culture of of our revolution and it liberation and we we need to organize on the ground not just the Green Resistance Movement but also coordinate our actions with other sections of the Libyan Society how will they trust you ever again as far as they are already trusting us well as that gadhafi in his final years what he was negotiating with shelby peak a local. For all well im not sure where all the money is trusting called lisa rose trusting to enable her trusting you know across the duffy wanted to make. The front fighting front with the west quite so you could win on the african front he knew libya is a small country of 6000000 he cannot have wars all over so he made the decision in the 2 thousands to open up the western embassies in tripoli and to have some limited economic deals with some european and american was a mistake. I dont think it was a mistake or such i think it was a clever idea. To quite to make the western front quiet and to Pay Attention to the african context but as i said we had some internal weaknesses and we had some african weaknesses and we were not able we did not have enough time to build our strength up you know if the 2011 conspiracy was delayed a little bit like for 5 years we would have been much stronger and we would have built some african and institutions like the african unified force military force that would have held us to be protected and to stop any such conspiracy the west understood that thats why they rushed in. Creating the color revolutions in the area and they supported it in such high speed rhythm i mean the conflict in libya started on the 15th of february within a week they were in was involved within a month the bombardment started and hared off those in a quicker than with move egypt ok but where is the billions with the billions of dollars of libyan peoples money that was in the sovereign wealth this is 1. 00 of the most wonderful and beautiful things about our revolutionary system after 8 years no one has been able to prove that we mismanaged any funds for the libyan nation they havent been able to find a single penny in conduct his name or his familys name or his sons or officials every single penny of the libyan wealth has been found and known about 360000000000. 00 and they are all in Western Banks and this is a mistake they have been. Frozen of course controlled now by the you know you and apparently tell me about the colleges you made alleged to be able to cause we were told in western Mainstream Media channels that it was surgical strikes weather was advanced air forces navies in the world later. In 2011 more than 50000 libyans were killed by nato many of them thousands were innocent civilians children wifes mothers sons the western media was able that actually i led them around and showed them the massacres in the town of maje for example more than 80 children and mothers were killed. In tripoli in sirte in the lytton every one of them has 2345 massacres and many of these where documented directly and immediately by the western media but then no one talks about them no one takes nato to court no one accuses them of war crimes and these people who were massacred unknown are known by name known by family by location by photo even the government of National Record had to admit to these massacres and they organized a few conferences and a few press events to commemorate them as you know nature would always say these are examples of Collateral Damage while targeting military. Targets unlike what. Was choosing to this is just silly this where continuous systemically attacks on civilian areas inside libyan cities in different locations at different times the continuation. And the system as systematic nature of this tells other story but how did you psychologically recover after seeing bombardment and i did what i did i did see the bodies of children mutilated i saw mothers hugging their kids so dead and the rebels i saw my friends and comrades civilians some of them are journalists were journalists libyan and i saw them you know killed in front of my eyes i saw destroyed houses cars neighbor who is you were good every spokesperson but you were the royal all the way college and university of london because of you havent finished your thesis on building a digital Film Industry in africa the economics of culture and politics your world as of last week you ended up here being given every spokesperson during a full blooded war with later. How well i finished my ph d. In media arts Royal Holloway College in 2009 and i was officially awarded my degree in 2011. And i did political economy and at the university of exeter and i did philosophy islamic law and sufism at so us school of oriental and African Studies in london. My academic study always led me towards the same direction which is a cultural economic political artistic understanding of the world for me the main fight in life is for justice economic mainly but also political is for freedom of the soul freedom of the body freedom of the mind and i was so easily able to see especially when i did my ph d. Which is about Building Digital technologies in africa how the african context is completely robbed robbed of its ability to develop robbed of its freedom to. Bres itself kept under the thumb of the west and kept capitalist machine so for me it all comes together the arts the film making the media the philosophy the economy to serve one goal which is how to break the individual and and how to liberate the nation the african nation the african human being from the sub of the nation of the of the imperialist machine was ever thank you thank you that ends the special edition of going on the ground from the german Capitol Building will be back in london for a show on wednesday keep in touch much as the media will forget to try to write it yourself. Because the swarms of them someone. Who was before. Much of those who heard its a preview of the most you ever see him will. We will. Move. Move but it. Will show you just look beautiful the media collector a good. Old slum also who is dull so good you have gone for good girls. Dont go to school so look i do the same you believe. The story should go. 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