Serbian University Defends Qaddafi Honorary Doctorate

RadioFreeEurope Thursday 3rd March, 2011

BELGRADE -- A private Serbian university that awarded an honorary doctorate to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi said it will not revoke the degree because it was given for scientific reasons, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.Mica Jovanovic, the dean of Belgrade's Megatrend University, told RFE/RL on March 2 that politics played no part in the school's decision to honor Qaddafi four years ago.Jovanovic said Qaddafi -- who has been accused of human rights violations in suppressing an ongoing popular uprising -- earned the doctorate because of Libya's "Great Manmade River," the largest irrigation project in the world.Started in 1984 and projected to cost about $25 billion, it pumps water from 1,300 wells -- most of them more than 500 meters deep in the Sahara Desert -- and supplies Tripoli, Bengh...

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Dean of MEGATREND University is son of Miloshevich cronie who helped his son to smuggle cooper and sell it on LME during sanctions in the nineties. Colonel Gaddafi was his friend and stays his friend. Majority of opinions in Belgrade clearly indicate the outburst of hatred for a system of moral and intellectual values -labeled under the general terms 'America' and 'Jews' (because THEY BOMBED US not asking why at all? which in fact nobody wanted with exemption of few including Miloshevic). The same are attracted by the value system represented by general terms such as 'Gaddafi' and 'Miloshevic' (because those dictators 'protect bellies of people with petro-dollars or a street black market 'where everything was possible...', and show the middle finger defiantly towards West - culture and civilization, while killing those who do 'not like' them. Mr. Jovanovic WONT revoke the title

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