Reply #10: How about some good old fashioned racist rape and killing from the rebels? [View All]

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It's an old article, from more than a month ago, but it's worth a read.

The situation in Benghazi is very critical, because those Libya boys, they are going to houses and attacking our blacks, especially the Nigerians, and Ghanaians, raping our girls, stealing our money, and beating people up,” Jones said. “So we just run away from there. Most of our boys, they catch them and lock them up, so we don’t know what the situation is there.”

Jones had been working as a housekeeper in Benghazi. Her brother, an electrician named Terry David, also worked there. And he, too, said that rebels attacked him and other African migrants.

“Sometimes they hit us, anything they have in their hand. Point gun at you; sometimes blow out people’s brains,” Jones said. “So we can’t stand that, and have to run away from the country.”

Public Radio's The World

There have been other reports of summary executions of suspected loyalists, police and all sorts of other perfectly justifiable acts by the sweet, innocent victims of oppression. There's a big race problem in Benghazi, apparently, and many darker-skinned guest workers are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Let's not forget the fundamentalist problem here, too: Benghazi is an Islamist hotbed, and part of the reason the revolt is centered there is that this is where the LIFG comes from. They're the ones who hate Qaddafi because he's an apostate, and went on a killing spree in 1995-6, killing police and uniformed soldiers, as well as mounting an unsuccessful assassination attempt on him.

I'm sure there are some fine upstanding secular pluralists among the rebels, but there are probably some fine patriots among the loyalists, too.