пятница, 8 июня 2012 г.

The fall of the dictators


The editor of the Polish «Gazeta Wyborcza» Adam Michnik says about the fate of Gaddafi and other despots who are still in power.
Indecent glad someone's death, even if it was a tyrant, guilty of the suffering of thousands of people. So the death of Muammar Qaddafi for me - it's not a reason for joy, and an occasion to reflect on the essence of the world in which we live and we, and dictators.
Qaddafi seemed eternal. He is blackmailed and humiliated the whole world. With a firm hand, he terrorized the Libyan despot, and was able to negotiate at the same time ( after years of staying in a state of conflict ) with the world of Western democracy and not just put on their knees guide European countries.
In his long career he had been a conspirator, a green initiative of the Islamic Revolution, from which he retired. Dictators, he was always. He believed in violence and lies, and believed that it is enough. and calculate. His subjects in the end decided it was time to say enough is enough!.
And that was the end of Gaddafi. He defended himself for a long time, because his side was the army, as it is now at the Syrian dictator. And he would have defended himself further if it were not for the military operation in France and England, supported by other countries. Democratic states at this time sided with the oppressed, speaking out against the despot. It was a signal to the peoples under the yoke of tyranny: the dictatorship will not go unpunished, the dictators are not immortal.
They are, however, remain an integral part of our era, but their fall - is also an essential fact of. The fall of dictatorships is accomplished through negotiations and democratic reforms, but also - through violence and bloody revenge.