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Title: Obama Akbar! Death purges in NATObama's Libya
Source: The Independent
URL Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio ... are-not-merciful-6267104.html
Published: Nov 24, 2011
Author: Patrick Cockburn
Post Date: 2011-11-24 12:44:53 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama-doms-ding-dong, Obamatuer Hour, NATObama
Views: 6247
Comments: 3

Patrick Cockburn: This was always a civil war, and the victors are not merciful

The purge of Gaddafi supporters is made more dangerous by infighting between the militias

The detention of 7,000 people in prisons and camps by the anti-Gaddafi forces is not surprising. The conflict in Libya was always much more of a civil war between Libyans than foreign governments pretended or the foreign media reported.

The winning anti-Gaddafi militia are not proving merciful. Often they have had relatives killed in the fighting or imprisoned by the old regime who they want to avenge. Sometimes they come from tribes and towns traditionally hostile to neighbouring tribes and towns. Gaddafi supporters are being hunted down. According to one person in Gaddafi's home town of Sirte, they are facing a "continuing reign of terror".

"There is a deep and spreading frenzy, particularly among some of the youth militia and the Islamists, to hunt down anyone associated with the former regime," the source said.

The National Transitional Council, whose control is largely theoretical, is not in a position to stop this purge because many of its members are themselves frightened of being accused of links with the old regime.

Some groups are particularly vulnerable. The then-rebels were convinced earlier this year that many of those they were fighting were mercenaries recruited in Central or West Africa. But when these alleged "mercenaries" were arrested in Tripoli, many turned out to be black migrant labourers without identity papers.

According to Amnesty International, some of those who were put on television by the rebels as mercenaries were later quietly freed because they were migrant workers. Others faced mob justice before they were able to prove their identities.

The international media was overwhelmingly hostile to Gaddafi's regime and tended to highlight atrocities committed by it and disregard or underplay human rights violations carried out by his opponents. An example of this occurred when eight or nine bodies of Libyan soldiers were found who appeared to have been executed. The rebels claimed they had been shot by Gaddafi's men because they tried to change sides. But Amnesty located a film of the soldiers being captured alive by the rebels and it was presumably the rebels who killed them.

The purge of Gaddafi supporters is made more dangerous by the infighting between the militias, and between them and the politicians. Association with the old regime can be used to discredit an opponent. There may also be self-interest since death squads are reported to be taking their property.

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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)

This is Thanksgiving Day for Christ sake!

What is the matter with you? Can't you give America's meddling, aristocratic, snobbish bureaucrats around the world a day off? Of course, you wouldn't know that every US President has encouraged their intervention and interference into other sovereign affairs leading America into more costly wars and into the future.

Yep, that includes all those elected charlatans called Repub-o-ocrats since WW2.

buckeroo  posted on  2011-11-24   13:15:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: buckeroo (#1)

This is Thanksgiving Day for Christ sake!

Do you actually think this poster is a native US citizen?

"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.

mininggold  posted on  2011-11-24   13:29:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: mininggold (#2)

I would never give him any credit for that sort of pedigree. Why would you ask?

buckeroo  posted on  2011-11-24   13:31:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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