Has the international community failed Libya?
| 09:48 UK time, Wednesday, 8 June 2011
This topic was discussed on World Have Your Say in 8 June, 2011. Listen to the programme.
As the Nato bombing campaign intensifies in Libya, defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to review the results of two months of air strikes in the country.
The meeting will not only look at the success of the bombing campaign, but also what would happen in any transition period, post Gaddafi. That in itself isn't easy. Gaddafi has vowed to remain in the country "dead or alive", saying martyrdom would be a "million times better" than surrender.
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Nato is bombing Libya because it can. This senseless destruction and vandalism of a sovereign state by partisan invaders invites civil war.
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Let them accomplish the mission & give room for a new beginning
But the Nato campaign is only part of the story.
There have been separate diplomatic efforts to attempt to bring an end to the crisis.
Last week President Zuma of South Africa went on a mission to Libya to speak with Col Gaddafi, but left empty handed.
Meanwhile, China and Russia are involved in separate diplomatic efforts to try to end the conflict.
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi has been visiting Beijing, and a Russian envoy is in eastern Libya's rebel stronghold of Benghazi to meet opposition leaders.
We'll be speaking to Libyans and supporters and opponents of the intervention by Nato, including blogger and activist Jody McIntyre.
Should the Nato campaign continue, or must it change course? Should the wider international community be doing more, like South Africa, Russia, China and the Gulf states? Or should Libya, a sovereign country be sorting out it's own problems?
