With yet another very major defection, that of the regime’s Foreign Minister Mussa Kusa followed closely by another important personage, it is becoming increasingly clear that the infamous Libyan regime is getting closer to an advanced stage of collapse and disintegration.

For the concluding act to be successfully enacted, what remains imperative to take place is the immediate honourable abandonment of the sinking state by the military command. Following this, the command should embrace as allies the patriotic font struggling heroically with almost bare hands against a well-equipped army provided with all modern weaponry that oil riches, stolen from the people’s mouths, were able to buy.

Everyone inside and outside Libya, especially those with high pecuniary interests in the country, should realise once and for ever that Libya is endowed with more than sufficient natural wealth, including an astronomical, inexhaustible potential for export of renewable solar energy from its desert territory. These vast riches are much more in excess to cater for the needs of every single living and future citizen of Libya. 

This guaranteed pecuniary security is equally open and available to all the topmost governing class dedicated to leading the entire country with honesty on the road to peace, liberty, democracy and progress throughout every phase of their lifetime.

It should thus be amply obvious that the continuation of the horrendous fratricidal struggle taking place is only and purely in the selfish interests and ambitions of a megalomaniac and his few remaining equally inclined entourage.

A self-appointed and proclaimed leader, Gaddafi has proved himself highly unworthy and eminently incompetent to govern such an incredibly wealthy nation in a humane and, still less, democratic and free mode befitting its riches.

By his barbaric actions, he has also often in practice flouted the noble tenets of the holy Koran, of which he is supposedly a disciple and follower.

The post-regime, free, democratic administration in Tripoli ought to bestow special honour and respect to three very special and significant letters in the Roman alphabet: RIP. These surely deserve prominence of view in Tripoli’s popular Town Centre – as a national gesture to the unforgettable memory of a desperately departed dictator.

Perit Edwin Calleja

Balzan