See the following article re the position of the AU on this issue.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-23/african-union-says-libyan-crackdown-violates-human-rights-1-.html
African Union Condemns Libyan Crackdown, Says It Violates Human Rights
The African Union Peace and Security Council condemned the Libyan government's crackdown on pro- democracy protests, saying it violated international humanitarian law.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has used "indiscriminate and excessive use of force and lethal weapons against peaceful protesters," the 53-member African Union's security body said in a statement e-mailed today after a meeting in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.
"The aspirations of the people of Libya for democracy, political reform, justice and socio-economic development are legitimate," the council said in the statement. Libya's "territorial integrity and unity" should be preserved.
The council is planning to send a mission to Libya "as soon as possible" to assess the situation in the North African country, council Chairman Kakena S.K. Nangula said earlier.
To contact the reporter on this story: William Davison in Addis Ababa via Johannesburg at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net.
The Arab League has taken their stance and it is not as if the African
nations care less about the fate of Libya and Libyans.
An important question for us in this forum, and indeed for the rest
of Africa and diaspora, is why the gaping silence from the Africa
Union, about the lastest antics of the man who has played such a
pivotal role in African Union matters, not least of all in his
largesse in providing funding for a few projects in Africa and also
not least of all his well known ambition to become the first president
of the United States of Africa?
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2011/02/23/revolutionary-gaddafi-promises-a-bloodbath-shows-his-true-face-to-the-world-and-to-his-own-people/
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