Madam Deputy Speaker, we condemn the Butcher of Tripoli and the brutal repression taking place in Libya. We also condemn the complicit silence of our government, the ANC, on the matter. We cannot but wonder what the price of that silence has been. With what price - of election contributions, favours and outright corruption - have the dignity of this country and the moral conscience of this government in this international matter been bought?
We call on the South African government to establish an immediate embargo on weapons to Libya, so that freedom fighters in Libya will no longer be killed by weapons produced by South Africans.
We hope that the time has come for the leader of the revolution, as he wishes to call himself, to be swept away by a real revolution of freedom- aspiring people, as in Tunisia and Egypt, and finally in Libya may he be relegated, after 40 years of tyranny, to the same category as Pol Pot, Fidel Castro and Joseph Stalin. Thank you.