Zitate von Muammar al-Gaddafi
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Geburtstag: 7. Juni 1942
Todesdatum: 20. Oktober 2011
Muammar Muhammad Abdassalam Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi oder Muʿammar Muhammad Abdassalam Abu Minyar al-Qaddhafi war seit einem unblutigen Militärputsch vom 1. September 1969 bis 1979 das Staatsoberhaupt von Libyen. Als Revolutionsführer bestimmte er von 1979 bis 2011 diktatorisch die Politik Libyens. 1975 veröffentlichte Gaddafi Das Grüne Buch, in dem er seine politischen Ziele darstellte, ein Eklektizismus aus Sozialismus, Anarchismus, Naturrecht und Nationalismus.Gaddafi war der am längsten regierende Herrscher Libyens und einer der am längsten herrschenden Machthaber außerhalb von Monarchien überhaupt; etwa 80 Prozent der zum Zeitpunkt seines Todes lebenden Libyer waren unter seiner Herrschaft geboren worden. Gaddafi sicherte seine Macht auch durch ein rentenökonomisches, auf den Exporterlösen von Erdöl und -gas beruhendes Verteilungssystem nach innen ab. Außerdem instrumentalisierte und politisierte er die Stämme nach dem Prinzip Teile und herrsche.Im Februar 2011 kam es in Libyen zu landesweiten Aufständen, gegen Ende des Monats verlor Gaddafi die Kontrolle über weite Teile des libyschen Ostens an Rebellen. Im März begannen, auf der Basis einer UN-Resolution, die Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada und mehrere westeuropäische Staaten mit Luftangriffen auf Libyen mit dem Ziel, eine Flugverbotszone durchzusetzen . Ab dem 27. Juni 2011 wurde Gaddafi als mutmaßlicher Kriegsverbrecher und wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit per Haftbefehl weltweit gesucht. Er galt ab dem 22. August 2011 als abgesetzt und wurde von der neuen Regierung polizeilich gesucht, am 20. Oktober 2011 wurde er getötet. Die genauen Todesumstände wurden nicht aufgedeckt und bleiben ungeklärt.
Zitate Muammar al-Gaddafi
„Thus the working class turns out to be a separate society, showing the same contradictions as the old society.“
— Muammar Gaddafi, buch The Green Book
The Green Book (1975)
The Green Book (1975)
Kontext: Any class which becomes heir to a society, inherits, at the same time, its characteristics. That is to say that if the working class crushes all other classes, for instance, it becomes heir of the society, that is, it becomes the material and social base of the society. The heir bears the traits of the one he inherits from, though they may not be evident at once. As time passes, attributes of other eliminated classes emerge in the very ranks of the working class. And the possessors of those characteristics take the attitudes and points of view appropriate to their characteristics. Thus the working class turns out to be a separate society, showing the same contradictions as the old society.
„I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam – mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam.“
Interview with Al Jazeera (27 March 2007)
Interviews
„Those rats … were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them.“
Radio address on rebel forces in Tripoli, as quoted in "Libya conflict: Col Gaddafi faces rebel uprising on streets of Tripoli" in The Telegraph (21 August 2011) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8713761/Libya-conflict-Col-Gaddafi-faces-rebel-uprising-on-streets-of-Tripoli.html
Speeches
„Revolution is when the masses make the revolution. A people’s revolution. But even when the revolution is made by others in the name of the masses, expressing what the masses want, it can be revolution. A people’s revolution because it has the support of the masses and interprets the will of the masses.“
Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corriere della Sera
Interviews
„We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism.“
Time (8 June 1981) " An Interview with Gaddafi http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922551-2,00.html"
Interviews
„In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.“
Video lecture at Columbia University (23 March 2006), quoted in BBC News (23 March 2006) "Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy"
Speeches
„Hitler and Mussolini exploited the support of the masses to rule the people. We revolutionaries enjoy the support of the masses to help the people become capable of ruling themselves on their own. I myself am constantly appealing to the masses to govern on their own. I say to my people: ‘If you love me, listen to me. And govern yourselves on your own’. That’s why they love me because, unlike Hitler, who said ‘I’ll do it all for you’, I say ‘Do it on your own.“
Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corriere della Sera
Interviews
„We have been hurt more morally that physically because of what had happened against us in both deeds and words by you. Despite all this you will always remain our son whatever happened. We still pray that you continue to be president of the U. S. A. We Endeavour and hope that you will gain victory in the new election campaigne. You are a man who has enough courage to annul a wrong and mistaken action. I am sure that you are able to shoulder the responsibility for that. Enough evidence is available, Bearing in mind that you are the president of the strongest power in the world nowadays, and since Nato is waging an unjust war against a small people of a developing country. This country had already been subjected to embargo and sanctions, furthermore it also suffered a direct military armed aggression during Reagan’s time. This country is Libya. Hence, to serving world peace … Friendship between our peoples … and for the sake of economic, and security cooperation against terror, you are in a position to keep Nato off the Libyan affair for good.“
— Muammar Gaddafi, buch The Green Book
The Green Book (1975), Letter to Barack Obama
„I staged a coup d’état and the workers staged the revolution, occupying the factories, becoming partners instead of employees, eliminating the monarchic administration and setting up people’s committees. In short, they liberated themselves. Students did the same. Today in Libya, only the people count.“
Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corriere della Sera
Interviews
„I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!… The stupid fool is a zealot, a warrior, and a clever one. But he doesn't accomplish anything.“
Remarks quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 110
„We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.“
Audio message broadcast on the pro-Gaddafi Syrian Al Rai TV on 1 September 2011, quoted on Al Jazeera live blog http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/09/201191141151339449.html.
Speeches
„You — yourself — said on many occasions, one of them in the UN General Assembly, I was witness to that personally, that America is not responsible for the security of other peoples. That America helps only. This is the right logic.“
— Muammar Gaddafi, buch The Green Book
The Green Book (1975), Letter to Barack Obama
„I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way.… I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth.“
Interview with Al Jazeera (27 March 2007)
Interviews
„I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.“
Televised address to the nation
Speeches
„I want provocation. People should take to the streets. Smash those dogs, and tell them: "you traitors will bring us the British."“
Statement (8 March 2011), as quoted in "Libya on the Line: An interactive timeline Browse through a collection of conversations between Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam and other senior Libyan officials" at Aljazeera (11 May 2012) http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/libyaontheline/2012/05/201251173614897923.html
Al Jazeera's mobile phone wiretaps
„I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.“
Remarks after insulting King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and having his microphone cut (30 March 2009), quoted in The Scotsman (31 March 2009) " Gaddafi walks out of summit after attack on Saudi king http://news.scotsman.com/world/Gaddafi-walks-out-of-summit.5123610.jp" by Salah Nasrawi
