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As mass anti-government protests flare across several countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Amnesty International is urging all state authorities in the region to respect human rights, including the rights of those now demanding change.
Repressive governments across the Middle East and North Africa are under pressure and face surging demands for political, economic and social reform. Already, protesters have been killed on the streets by police and thousands have been arrested or beaten as state security forces try to quell the unrest. New curbs on freedom of expression have been imposed with online social media, a vital organization tool for activists, being targeted.
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Perhaps the way forward for these horrific losses of lives is to seek ways of restructuring the repressive governments who are driving the citizens to leave their own countries.
The world is run on principles of democracy today and obviously if the governments can,t enforce the law in terms of those principles then they are not doing their job properly.
It seems that the social order has collapsed because crime has reached
appalling levels which the police couldn,t control.However the government should be held to blame in the first place because they knew that democracy wasn,t running the way it should be.
That really is the kernel of it all..why was democracy in such a flagging state..the only answer must be that there are people sabotaging it,and they have been doing so for years.
For when Democracy works ..it works really well,It,s obvious it does because it provides laws to ensure the well being and safety of all.
My conclusion is therefore that therewas already a large amount of organised crime in Libya and it culminated in protests and violence because the people felt that it was ruining the Libyan constitution
The levels or organised crime in the World today are disconcerting,but they are very much aware in the United Nations and in Amnesty that the problems caused to innocent people from it,are not insurmountable.
So it is tolook at the central governments and make sure that the Laws
of the Libyan Constitution are being properly administered.
Sometimes this takes more time than people would like it to.However there is much more scope for restoring the proper administation of the law now,where it is in a state of collapse.
Meanwhile,personally I can understand why the people want to flee,as no person wants to live in an uncivilised hell and I assume that Amnesty
workers and colleauges will look at past situations in the world where
citizens are seeking political refuge and find ways to use and improve the solutions
which were used then.