[Marxism] Muammar Ghaddafi, new AU president, defends Somalian "pirates"

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Some lines out of an article in the Kenian newspaper "Daily Nation": 

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<http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/525348/-/13rtrgiz/-/index.html
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February 5, 2009:
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The Libyan leader further said he believed that piracy was a way of counter 
defence against the greedy Western nations.

Col Gaddafi expressed the sentiments Thursday morning when he paid his 
first day official visit to African Union head quarter in Addis Ababa. He 
addressed AU officials and staff.

Col Gaddafi wore a colourful shirt decorated with Africa Union founding 
fathers portraits including Tanzanian Julius Nyerere, Ethiopian Haile Selassie, 
Kenyan Jomo Kenyatta, and Ghanaian Kwame Nkrumah.

During the inaugural tour, Col Gaddafi revealed his plan for the next seasons, 
saying he doesn't believe that Somalia piracy was a crime.

"It is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's 
water resources illegally,'' he said.

"It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's 
food," Col Gaddafi argued.

He pointed out that some countries, particularly Western nations, were 
penetrating into a Somalia's sovereign water territory, against the 
international law .

European, the US and China fleets are entering in the sovereign Somalia 
territory, because Africa doesn't have strong and modern defence to push 
them back, Col Gaddafi said.

Nowadays, Somalis are reacting for justice and trying to defend their country 
against the unfair exploitation of resources, but Western countries have 
labelled it as piracy, Gaddafi explained.

The long-serving Libyan leader said he planned to convince other African 
leaders to claim compensation from colonial masters for their crimes and 
exploitation during the colonial era. 
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 See also "Under Gaddafi, Africa could explode" from the same newspaper at
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Comradely yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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