Should the UN Security council be charged with war crimes?
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez condemned what he called "indiscriminate bombing" by the U.S. and its allies in Libya, saying Sunday that the assault is causing civilian casualties.
Chavez, who has long-standing ties to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, demanded the airstrikes be halted and echoed claims of civilian victims by the Libyan government, which said 48 people were killed.
"Civilian victims have now begun to appear because some bombs are launched — 200, 400 bombs from out there at sea — and those bombs fall where they fall," Chavez said during his weekly television and radio program.
"Libya is under imperial fire. Nothing justifies this," Chavez said, holding up a newspaper showing an explosion on the front page.
"Indiscriminate bombing," he said. "Who gave those countries the right? Neither the United States, nor France, nor England, nor any country has the right to be dropping bombs."
Chavez said African Union leaders were meeting in Mauritania to discuss the conflict.
"That's what must be done, and going there to talk with the parties in the conflict, but not launching bombs, more bombs, more death," Chavez said. "We pray to God for peace in Libya."
The Venezuelan president and several other leaders in Latin America have strongly opposed military intervention in Libya.
On Saturday, delegates at a meeting of ALBA — a left-leaning bloc comprising Venezuela and seven other nations in Latin America and the Caribbean — accused Western allies of trying to seize Libya's oil.
"We repeat our message from Venezuela, from the ALBA: We demand a halt to the attack against Libya," Chavez said Sunday. "What madness. ... It's imperial madness."
Chavez frequently refers to the United States as "the empire."
Indiscriminate bombings? That is war crime in my books.
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