Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday condemned foreign air strikes against the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, accusing the West of double standards and a thirst for more oil. Museveni is part of an African Union (AU) panel formed to mediate in Libya alongside the leaders of South Africa, Mauritania, Congo and Mali.
The group was forced to abandon a plan to fly to Tripoli on Sunday because of the UN-mandated no-fly zone over the country. "The Western countries always use double standards," Museveni wrote in an 18-page statement. "In Libya, they are very eager to impose a no-fly zone. In Bahrain and other areas where there are pro-Western regimes, they turn a blind eye to the very same conditions or even worse conditions."
The former rebel, who was given arms by Gaddafi during the bush war that brought him to power in 1986, said African countries had been appealing for years without success to the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone over war-ravaged Somalia.
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