New York, 26 October 2011: Last Sunday, I had the great privilege of representing the Secretary-General at Libya's Declaration of Liberation in Benghazi, the city where the popular movement had begun on February 17 this year. A peaceful movement, sparked on that day by the demand of families to know the fate of their loved ones who had disappeared in a notorious prison massacre, was met with lethal repression, and civilians across Libya took up arms in a revolution to end decades of denial of political freedoms and human rights, corruption and social inequality.
Briefing by Mr. Ian Martin SRSG for Libya to the Security Council
- 26 October 2011
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