“Soon one day, Monarchy will be restored, against the dictatorship and against the anarchy” said Eugène Ionesco.
This is probably what should be said about the tragic and bloody events that happen nowadays in Libya.
The demonstrations have first started in the province of Cyrenaica, and its capital city Benghazi, which have since the beginning remained hostile to the power of the “Libyan Guide”.
This eastern province has always been a stronghold of the old Monarchy which has been overthrown by Muammar al-Gaddafi in 1969. After the coup, this province remained Monarchist, and has always been in opposition with the new republican authorities in Tripoli, as it was noted and mentioned in the international press those last few days.
It should then not surprise anyone, that the rebellion has chosen the old flag of the Senoussi Dynasty as their emblem. This flag has been since the republican revolution the emblem of the Libyan monarchist aspirations. And despite the fantasies of the dictator, accusing his opponents of being thugs, foreign manipulated youths, or Al Qaeda supporters, the reality behind nowadays demonstrations is really different. From what has been known, from the reactions of the Libyan Constitutional Union (LCU), from what has been seen with the rebel crowd waving the monarchist flags, everything shows that Libya being freed from the Gaddafi dictatorship is now fighting for a monarchist restoration.
To achieve such a result, the people of Libya, his pretender, Prince Sidi Muhammad al-Sanussi should fight and work together, so that Libya remains free and sovereign, by rejecting any American and Western interferences that would only impose to the country a politically unstable, illegitimate and corrupted power as it was done in Afghanistan recently.
This Monarchist renewal in Libya, and in other Arab countries, should not lead us to forget the situation in Iran. There the political repression is growing, more than 203 opposition supporters have been killed since last December, half of them were Monarchist activists (including one woman Zahra Bahrami, member of the Tondar monarchist movmement, publiquily beaten on the 31 of January, and assassinated the day after in the Evin jail of Teheran).
The International Monarchist Conference supports without any reserve the revolt of the Libyan people, and salute the will of this country to revive his Monarchist tradition and the political modernity incarned by HRH Prince Sidi Muhammad al-Sanussi.
“Soon one day, Monarchy will be restored, against the dictatorship and against the anarchy” said Eugène Ionesco.
29 Septembre 2011 - savoir assumer ses choix
18 Mars 2011 - For an international action under local control
26 Fevrier 2011 - Para una renovacion democratica en Libia
26 Fevrier 2011 - Democracy for Libya