Libya’s Kadafi Urges American Indians and Blacks to Set Up Their Own States
Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi said American Indians and blacks should set up their own states in North America and unite with revolutionary movements south of the border, Libyan television reported Sunday.
In a speech to what was billed as “the first international conference of red Indians” in Tripoli, Col. Kadafi said Indians should recover their ancestral lands in line with the United Nations principle of self-determination.
“The struggle should start from now on to set up a state for the red Indians in northern America . . . in California, Chicago, Texas and Mexico,” Kadafi said in the speech, made Saturday.
“If this is not achieved peacefully, it will have to be achieved by force and by a long and tenacious fight,” he said.
The official Libyan news agency said Indians from North, Central and South America are attending the conference, but it did not say how many.
The Libyan leader urged Indians to unite with blacks, who he said also have a right to establish their own state in North America.
Kadafi said North America should be divided into three states: one for Indians, one for blacks and one for whites “who should have returned to Europe and left the American continent to its original inhabitants.”
He said Indians and blacks should form an alliance with “liberation movements” in South America.
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