Intervention in Libya - Saving lives makes move acceptable

REPRESENTATIVES of more than 40 governments or international bodies met in London yesterday to discuss the crisis in Libya.

A very good outcome would be an immediate end to the civil war, an end to Muammar Gaddafi’s four decades of dictatorship, his immediate exile followed by an early and robust hearing at the International Courts of Justice for the bizarre colonel and the henchmen who have sustained his regime.

If all of the countries involved in the conflict could immediately withdraw and leave the future of that divided country to the peaceful deliberations of people of Libya it might be seen as a considerable success.