Revised Article on Libya by The Rt Hon Lord Owen for The Independent on Sunday
Published 22 August 2011
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What Makes a Dictator Pack His Bags?
What makes a dictator pack his bags?
Article by Lord Owen published in The Independent, Sunday 21 August 2011.
“We all want to see Gaddafi and Assad face their just desserts, but politicians have to reconcile justice with pragmatism.”
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We Must Hold Firm on Libya
Civilian deaths have led to doubts over Nato’s Libya campaign. Yet to stop now would be a huge defeat for humanitarian order
Article by David Owen, published in The Guardian, Thursday, 23 June, 2011
Nato’s operation in the air over Libya started on 19 March under a UN resolution and at the specific request of the Arab League. Its immediate effect was to ensure that Benghazi was not overrun by …
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Declare Misrata A Safe Haven
Article on Libya by The Rt Hon Lord Owen Published in the The Times Tuesday, 19 April 2011
When I first advocated on Monday, 21 February a no-fly-zone over Libya to protect Libyan citizens from the overwhelming military superiority of the Gaddafi regime, liberation forces were in control of most of the cities and towns that bordered the Mediterranean coast apart from Tripoli.…
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Our shameful mishandling of evil
Published in the Sunday Times Sunday, 27 February 2011
For now the priority must be safeguarding the people of Libya, but Western powers must take a long, hard look at how it got this far at all
The appalling handling of Gadaffi since he came to power in 1969 raises some fundamental questions. In the next few weeks, the priority must be to safeguard people’s lives in Libya. National governments …