The "official Libyan news agency JANA", the sycophant mouthpiece of Gadhafi, reported as on each occasion of an "official" Libyan day of mourning, that:"The movement of the people inside and out side their homes was completely stopped. The movement of machineries and equipment in all airports, harbors, and roads were also stopped."
Never mind that few people and few machines stopped work or sadly even gave the occasion any thought.This time the occasion for the Libyan news propaganda being in total diametric opposition to reality, was "the 74th anniversary of the martyrdom of Sheikh of the martyrs, Omar al-Mukhtar", who was a genuine national hero in leading resistance against the brutal Italian fascist occupation of Libya.
On other occasions, similar pronouncements are made each year in JANA, such as each April 15th, when "all people wear black and public vehicles are draped in black flags" in mourning of the Anglo-American attack on Libya which murdered hundreds of Libyans in their sleep in 1986. However, you would be hard pressed to find a single person or public vehicle in black on those anniversaries.
On the other hand, Black Africans you will see entering those public vehicles being sprayed by air fresheners, by racist Arab drivers, or stopped in the street by police, herded off to police stations and beaten up for having heeded Libya's "open borders" policy and ended up in that country surviving hand to mouth while dreaming of streets paved with gold in Europe.
As a result of Arab racism, lack of facilities, training and support (even the Green Book is not made available to them nor any facilitation to set up their own people's congresses), thousands of Africans die in the Mediterannean Sea each year after sinking on overloaded vessels which set sail with the connivance of corrupt Libyan officials, or being thrown overboard by the crew and told to swim ashore in rough seas.
Source: Comment from Mathaba.net
