this measure is a bit more sensible

Just because it’s not so time-sensitive, and will be useful after the fall of the regime:

2101: That draft UN resolution calling for sanctions on Libya is also calling for the violence against the opposition to be referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

Qaddafi is unlikely to survive, but many of the guilty will, and can be put on trial. We’ll learn a lot from that, too.

And now a dramatic, even sentimental scene is reported from the UN:

2104: The BBC’s Barbara Plett at the UN tweets: “Ban Ki-moon hugs Libyan ambo after the personal speech, deputy ambo seen weeping by his side.”