Roméo Dallaire: Intervention in Libya — Transcript

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1. 0:00when I look at uh how the International
2. 0:03Community responded on the periphery of
3. 0:06liby that is to say isolating it
4. 0:09economically isolating it politically uh
5. 0:12getting uh the the international
6. 0:14criminal court in involved uh
7. 0:17recognizing the massive abuses of Human
8. 0:19Rights uh by state leaders and so on uh
9. 0:23and uh they're continuing to pressure
10. 0:27and also try to offer options maybe uh
11. 0:31to Gaddafi to to step down and at the
12. 0:35Rhythm that that happened I think that's
13. 0:37quite
14. 0:38outstanding I mean they were doing
15. 0:41fine
16. 0:43until until Gaddafi said I am going to
17. 0:48stay in power and if it means crushing
18. 0:51every one of those cockroaches to do it
19. 0:53I
20. 0:54will that was the signal for military
21. 0:59intervention
22. 1:01and that was a signal to protect to
23. 1:05protect the innocent who were well
24. 1:08identified in the eastern part mostly
25. 1:10and so on uh and as such it called for
26. 1:14boots on the
27. 1:15ground that's what protect is not
28. 1:19aircraft at 10,000 ft they're in support
29. 1:22of that and so we're 7 weeks late in
30. 1:26providing the protection zones to permit
31. 1:29the moderates to coales in a better
32. 1:32sense of security and probably come up
33. 1:35with a lot log better sort of structure
34. 1:37of how they want to conduct this
35. 1:39operation and and where they want to go
36. 1:41with it and let the uh Gaddafi's Army
37. 1:46and let the rebels fight that's okay go
38. 1:48and fight but don't enter these
39. 1:50protective zones we're running that but
40. 1:53we really do not want to prove to him
41. 1:58that whatever is going to happen we're
42. 2:00on the ground we're protecting the
43. 2:02innocent and don't you even come close
44. 2:06and because of that we are failing and
45. 2:09now now what do we
46. 2:11do what do we do do we sustain a
47. 2:15nutrition
48. 2:17war and how long is that going to take
49. 2:20before we actually break Gaddafi's back
50. 2:24and will we ever and what happens if he
51. 2:25starts to find friends who are going to
52. 2:28start to supply him
53. 2:30how long will we sustain that and will
54. 2:32the rebels be able to sustain longterm
55. 2:36without uh more deliberate
56. 2:39support so we we were doing so
57. 2:43well and when just like in Rwanda on
58. 2:47that radio station said the tootsies are
59. 2:50nothing more than
60. 2:52cockroaches and all we have to do is
61. 2:54stomp them
62. 2:55out that was the signal to really
63. 3:00implement the r2p and we failed
64. 3:04miserably