{"id":15949,"date":"2011-08-30T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2011-08-30T04:14:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:14:49","slug":"dear-rebel-people-this-is-transition-calling-kindly-return-the-weapons-or-face-death-dismemberment-andor-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15949","title":{"rendered":"Dear rebel people &#8211; this is transition calling &#8211; kindly return the weapons or face death, dismemberment and\/or imprisonment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AU Refuses to Recognize TNC, Citing Human Rights Abuses<br \/>\nThe United States and NATO still enthusiastically support the rebel council, pledging further assistance for transition<br \/>\nby John Glaser, Antiwar.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/08\/29\/au-refuses-to-recognize-tnc-citing-human-rights-abuses\/\">August 29, 2011<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the African Union refuses to recognize the rebels\u2019 legitimacy on human rights grounds, the US and NATO \u2013 after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/a-problem-of-legitimacy-the-us-role-in-libya\/\">winning an insurrection for them<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/08\/04\/libyan-transnational-council-gets-embassy-in-d-c\/\">quickly recognizing<\/a> them as the legitimate government of Libya \u2013 are now engaged in further direct assistance, disregarding the AU\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>US Admiral Samuel Locklear, representing NATO, <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/africa\/2011\/08\/2011829144518559805.html\">pledged assistance<\/a> to disarm pro-Gadhafi forces and opposition militias, as well as securing weapons stockpiles. The US has also <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/08\/25\/us-libyan-assets-to-be-unfrozen-a-few-days\/\">worked hard to fund<\/a> the rebel transition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/08\/29\/misrata-rebels-protest-against-new-regime\/\">Misrata Rebels Protest Against New Regime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AU Refuses to Recognize TNC, Citing Human Rights Abuses The United States and NATO still enthusiastically support the rebel council, pledging further assistance for transition by John Glaser, Antiwar.com, August 29, 2011 As the African Union refuses to recognize the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-49f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15949"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15958,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions\/15958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}