The bravery of Ahmed

This testimony directly from the front of Benghazi is worth a thousand theories and discussions. Still not going to help against the ideological prejudices. The report is a committed young journalist and blogger for Peace and reporter for the Gruppo Abele Don Ciotti, Gabriele Del Grande, who also important books in defense of migrants' boats.

" I leave to him the word, hoping (but relying very little) that someone try to reflect. Tours of Benghazi, March 23, 2011 His wife had told him to talk to him. It also insisted that the brothers were locked up. But the truth is that Hasan had never been so proud of his son Ahmed as that day when he said that was joined to the front to leave the country.

Reason of state (Libya)

Democracy means "government by the people" and its premise is the existence of an appropriate structure to manage the social and political conflicts. In a democracy, that structure is called the rule of law. The rule of law, those conflicts are considered and resolved, in fact, through the law and not of violence.

They are dictatorships, on the contrary, that use violence and the law on privilege. And the structure of dictatorships is indeed capable of managing conflicts, but does so precisely with the violence and repression. In many countries, this is reality. Libya is a dictatorship, it has been for 40 years.

The Accomplices

Suddenly breaks out the least expected of the riots in the Arab world, by far the most violent against the people of Libya's dictator Gaddafi. The world is witnessing a terrible spectacle: the political demonstrations of unarmed demonstrators were exterminated by military units mercenary. The United States condemns, even if the voice of the world's leading power is too weak.

Europe has said that what happens in Libya violates every principle of political and human and can not be accepted by any of the member countries. None? But Italy is linked to Libya's dictator, who is wiping out his people by a treaty which binds it to the point - it is said in Article 4 - "Italy is committed to refrain from any form of interference, direct or indirect , in the internal or external affairs affecting the jurisdiction.