Reply #39: Mass Atrocities in Libya [View All]

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Mass Atrocities in Libya
Given credible reports of targetted violence against civilians, the newly merged Genocide Intervention Network/Save Darfur Coalition has called on the United States, United Nations, and other world leaders to embrace their responsibility to protect Libyan citizens. GI-NET/SDC is urging the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to authorize the following actions:
http://www.genocideintervention.net/campaign/mass_atrocities_libya

MELADY: Libya’s atrocities resemble Uganda’s
The brutality of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s repression of the liberation movement in Libya is clear. He and his cohorts are using machine guns and planes to kill their own people. We saw similar brutality in the early 1970s when serving in the U.S. ambassador’s post in Uganda. While all the evidence was present about the serious violations by Idi Amin, there was never a formal indictment of him by any legal jurisdiction. Amin, after an eight-year reign of terror, lived a comfortable exile in Saudi Arabia, where he died having escaped the criminal trial that he so deserved. The world should make sure that does not happen to Col. Gadhafi.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/10/libyas-atrocities-resemble-ugandas/

ICC opens probe on Libyan atrocities
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, March 3 (UPI) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is under investigation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged war crimes, the court announced Thursday.

Gadhafi, his top officials and members under his family are accused of using force against demonstrators who began protesting in the country Feb. 15.

ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the court was opening an investigation into alleged violations of human rights laws in Libya.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/03/03/ICC-opens-probe-on-Libyan-atrocities/UPI-40791299178756/#ixzz1JZtXkFDL

Immediate International Steps Needed to Stop Atrocities in Libya
With credible reports of concerted deadly attacks against civilians committed by Libyan security forces, including the use of military aircraft to indiscriminately attack demonstrators, the international community must respond immediately.

For members of the world community, many of whom long condoned authoritarian regimes in the Arab world and only fully backed the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings once the outcome had become clear, Libya presents a critical test. So far, the Libyan regime has offered its people no prospect beyond submission, civil war or a blood bath; its actions have condemned it in the eyes of its own people and of the world.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/media-releases/2011/immediate-international-steps-needed-to-stop-atrocities-in-libya.aspx

Libya Atrocities: Canadian Oil Workers witnessed men beaten to death, set on fire
A Canadian Muslim who worked for an oil company in Libya has returned safely to Calgary but will be forever haunted by the atrocities he witnessed, reports CBC.

Arif Pervez told reporters he was working for the Libyan-based Waha Oil company in a desert village about 600 kilometres south of Benghazi when protests broke out.

A Libyan military plane landed at the local airstrip afew days into conflict, and soldiers rounded up oil workers and villagers.

The soldiers, Gadaffi's henchmen, randomly selected two men from the crowd before they beat them to death in front of everyone, he told CBC News.

""Four men were there to torture him," said Pervez, recalling how one of the victims died. "One was holding his hand. One was holding his feet, and they started beating him with a piece of wood, and he was shouting, screaming and crying." Pervez said they poured a flammable liquid over the man and set him on fire. "He started shouting a lot, so they continued beating him until he died," he said. Pervez said the soldiers left immediately after the killings."
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8383038-libya-atrocities-canadian-oil-workers-witnessed-men-beaten-to-death-set-on-fire