Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation who sponsored Al-Amal aid ship reaffirms that the purpose of the trip by Al-Amal was not to achieve media propaganda campaign or to carry out a provocative act. We are not in a battle with anyone, and our sole objective is to ensure the delivery of humanitarian assistance and alleviate the suffering of the besieged Palestinian people and provide them with the biggest possible support.

Based on the pioneering role of the Gaddafi International Charity and Development

Foundation, and in continuation of the principle of dialogue and tolerance emanating from the religious,moraland humanitarianvalues, andwhich aims to achieve peace, security and social progress; Confirming the content of the message addressed by President of the Foundation, Mr. Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, to the Libyan youth involved in the various extremist and fighting groups in Algeria, Mali and Mauritania,during the press conference heheld in Tripoli on 24 March 2010 on the occasion of the release (214) prisoners from different organizational groups within the framework of the national dialogue program sponsored by the Foundation  and in which he called the Libyan youths to lay down arms and return home to Libya in view to contribute to the building of their society along with all guarantees for their reintegration into the community; In response to that call, and fully convinced by the language of dialogue and renunciation of extremism and violence,

  In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.

 (So O our Lord, decide Thou between us and between our people with truth, and Thou art the Best of those who decide.’)

Allah the Almighty verily speaks the truth

Having wrapped up its first encounter with the families of Abu Slim Victims, which was held in Benghazi city under the slogan “Open dialogue for the sake of Libya of Tomorrow” on November 17-19, 2009, and after hearing the testimonies presented at this meeting, and which dealt with the way of arrest and security violations, including late reporting of deaths and the consequences of all those events as a whole, including denial of medical evacuation for the needy families, and the complexity of administrative procedures by Government entities, and the social implications resulting thereof,

In response to the victims’ families’ expressed keenness, responsibility and genuine desire to reach a comprehensive national reconciliation, the Human Rights Society calls upon all State institutions to assume their responsibility in the reconciliation process and to announce that quite frankly, seriously and in positive steps that would heal the citizens’ wounds;

And reviewing the statement of the victims’ families who expressed sincerely an unprecedented depth of national feeling, despite the depth of their wounds, the Human Rights Society of the Foundation finds itself compelled to stand in solidarity with the statement of the families of the victims, and furthermore, the Society calls for the following: