Eu Intervene with Libya
Why the EU decided to intervene and what they aimed to achieve from doing so is a huge topic and still an on-going discussion between many politicians
One factor of the intervention was learnt from previous mistakes for example the non-intervention of Rwanda and Srebrenica massacre
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people over the course of approximately 100 days, in the small East African Nation of Rwanda. This came about because of the longstanding ethic and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959–62 and overtaken the Tutsi monarchy
The Srebrenica massacre refers to the July 1995 killings, during the Bosnian War, of more than 8,000 Bosnians, mainly men and boys were murdered
The EU had meetings to discuss whether they should intervene with Libya or not and United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay called for the intervention to prevent mistakes that had previously happened. She was a powerful figure who influenced many people’s opinions
A lot of people say that the EU intervened because Libya have a lot of Oil and gas, however this is not a huge deciding case and in fact maybe irrelevant because Libya has only less than 2% of the world’s oil reserves, while technology is about to make gas available in such abundance that it hardly matters which country has it
Immigration was and still is causing the EU problems, instability in Libya tends to make people flee the fighting and head over North, especially to Italy from Tripoli via fishing boats, More than 15,000 people have arrived from Libya since its unrest began, the EU obviously wanted this cutting down, the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said that the Qaddafi government had long used immigration as a form of “retaliation toward Europe and Italy.”
The EU intervention in Libya should be part of a long term and comprehensive approach of the
One factor of the intervention was learnt from previous mistakes for example the non-intervention of Rwanda and Srebrenica massacre
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people over the course of approximately 100 days, in the small East African Nation of Rwanda. This came about because of the longstanding ethic and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959–62 and overtaken the Tutsi monarchy
The Srebrenica massacre refers to the July 1995 killings, during the Bosnian War, of more than 8,000 Bosnians, mainly men and boys were murdered
The EU had meetings to discuss whether they should intervene with Libya or not and United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay called for the intervention to prevent mistakes that had previously happened. She was a powerful figure who influenced many people’s opinions
A lot of people say that the EU intervened because Libya have a lot of Oil and gas, however this is not a huge deciding case and in fact maybe irrelevant because Libya has only less than 2% of the world’s oil reserves, while technology is about to make gas available in such abundance that it hardly matters which country has it
Immigration was and still is causing the EU problems, instability in Libya tends to make people flee the fighting and head over North, especially to Italy from Tripoli via fishing boats, More than 15,000 people have arrived from Libya since its unrest began, the EU obviously wanted this cutting down, the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said that the Qaddafi government had long used immigration as a form of “retaliation toward Europe and Italy.”
The EU intervention in Libya should be part of a long term and comprehensive approach of the