RT-Engels: 21-02-2025,
The British House of Commons in 2016 investigated the UK’s involvement in Libya’s 2011 civil war. The parliamentary report found that the British conservative government, led by David Cameron at the time, failed to “explain” its Libya policy, describing it as uninformed “by accurate intelligence,” overstated “the threat” to Libyan civilians and diligently overlooked that the rebel forces fighting the Libyan government “included Islamist element.” When the report was published in September 2016, David Cameroon had already left office and Libya was in tatters, sinking further into regional and tribal divisions, dominated by militias.
Yet Cameron, who refused to give evidence to the parliamentary committee, kept defending his policy. In January 2016 he tried to blame Libyans for the failure. They had been, he said, “given the opportunity” to transform their country into a “stable democracy” but had ignored the offer. Back in September 2011, when the war was winding down, he promised that he would not allow Libya to become another “Iraq” but that is exactly what happened. The parliamentary report highlighted Cameron’s “failure” to learn the lessons from Iraq’s invasion in 2003.
As veto powers the UK, France and the United States used UNSC resolution 1973 as a cover for their intentions to force regime change in Libya, contravening the resolution itself, which neither allowed regime change nor any boots on the ground in Libya.