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Title: Out of Control Violence in Libya (Oilbomber's "democratic rebels")
Source: OpEdNews
URL Source: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ou ... tephen-Lendman-120217-982.html
Published: Feb 18, 2012
Author: Stephen Lendman
Post Date: 2012-02-18 15:18:22 by Hondo68
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Keywords: Violence and instability, bloodstained imperial trophy, secret detention centers
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Comments: 1

Wherever NATO intervenes, massacres, mass destruction, and unspeakable horrors and human misery follow.

Once Africa's most developed country, Libya today's a ravaged, out-of-control charnel house. Tens of thousands died. Multiples more were injured, made homeless, and forcibly displaced. 

Terror now stalks Libyans living in fear. Protracted conflict continues. Violence and instability rage. Expect no end for years. Washington's-led NATO war is one of history's great crimes. Colonization, occupation, plunder and exploitation were planned. 

America got another bloodstained imperial trophy. Keeping it's another matter. Green Resistance continues its liberating struggle.

Amnesty International's (AI) New Report

Better late than never explaining NATO's legacy. AI's 2011 account misreported " The Battle for Libya." It pointed fingers the wrong way. It blamed Gaddafi for NATO aggression. It falsely accused him of "kill(ing) and injur(ing) scores of unarmed protesters."

It added "serious violations of international humanitarian law (IHL), including war crimes, and gross human rights violation, which point to the commission of crimes against humanity."

Before Western-backed killer gangs arrived, Libya had peace and calm. AI blamed Gaddafi for their crimes. Its new report paints an entirely different picture, but still falls way short of truth and full disclosure. Titled, "Militias Threaten Hopes for New Libya," it discusses pervasive violent lawlessness.

It doesn't explain illegitimate National Transitional Council (NTC) authority or NATO's illegal aggression against a nonbelligerent country. International law's clear. AI knows it. 

No nation may interfere in the internal affairs of another except in self-defense if attacked. NATO claimed responsibility to protect authority as Trojan Horse deception for war. Crimes of war and against humanity followed. 

They continue out-of-control. NATO's still involved. Thousands of US forces invaded to guard key oil facilities. Occasional air attacks occur. NATO warships occupy Libya's ports. US, Italian, French, and perhaps other forces are involved. Reports from Misrata in January said Apache helicopters slaughtered rebel insurgents trying to scale Brega oil platforms.

Killer gangs rage out-of control. Frequent clashes kill civilians and rival insurgents. Militias control local areas and neighborhoods. Thousands of Gaddafi loyalists and Black African guest workers were murdered or held captive and tortured.

"Militias....continue to seize and detain people, outside any legal framework, and hold them in secret detention centers...." Thousands have no way to challenge out-of-control lawlessness or escape from brutal torture.

Detainees AI interviewed described their harrowing experience. They were:


  • suspended in contorted positions; 

  • beaten with whips, rifle butts, cables, plastic hoses, metal chains, bars, and wooden sticks; 

  • electro-shocked with live wires and taser-like weapons; 

  • burned; and

  • threatened with rape.

Medical reports confirmed their accounts. With rare exceptions, detainees aren't tried or given access to lawyers. Several said they confessed to uncommitted crimes to end pain. Others were too scared to speak. NATO and NTC stooges know what's going on and do nothing. 

"(T)he NTC-led transitional government appears to have neither the authority nor the political will to rein in the militias. (They're) unwilling to recognize the scale of militia abuses, at most acknowledging individual cases despite the mounting evidence of patterns of grave, widespread abuses in many parts of the country."

As a result, ongoing torture and mistreatment continue. AI also exaggerated Gaddafi era crimes and ignored his mass public support. At the end, it was overwhelming, and today most Libyans yearn for him back.

NATO and illegitimate NTC officials spurn human rights and international law principles. Scheduled elections are cover for imperial occupation. Crimes of war and against humanity won't be punished. As a result, they continue daily.

Dark-skinned Libyans are especially threatened. Thousands in Tawargha and elsewhere were forcibly displaced. They still can't return, and their homes were looted and burned. As a result, those not held captive are in "poorly resourced" camps in Benghazi, Tripoli and elsewhere.

Many other Mshashiya and Qawalish tribe members, as well as Sirte, Bani Walid, and other residents, remain threatened by killer gangs. Revenge killings and other abuses continue. However, Green Resistance struggles to liberate Libya and restore Jamahiriya rule.

AI visited Libya in January and February 2012. Its researched focused in and around Tripoli, al-Zawiya, the Nafoussa Mountains, Misrata, Sirte and Benghazi.

They visited 11 detention centers in central and western Libya under insurgent gangs control. In at least 10, detainees were tortured and mistreated. AI interviewed them, those released, facility administrators, doctors and other hospital staff, relatives of people killed in custody, militia members, and NTC officials.

Exact numbers of detainees held and mistreated aren't known. However, thousands remain imprisoned. ICRC representatives said they "visited over 8,500 detainees in about 60 places of detention." Most were held in and around Tripoli and Misrata.

In February, NTC stooges held another 2,400. Nearly all current and former detainees AI interviewed said warrants didn't authorize their arrests. They were extrajudicial and arbitrary. Self-appointed "judicial committees" function ad hoc. Defense lawyers aren't present. Coercion, including torture and other severe treatment, force unjustified self-incrimination.

Many detainees said they were held at multiple locations. Some were secret. AI witnessed insurgents beating and threatening them, including some whose release were ordered.

One man said he was forced to lie on his back, hands and feet tied to the frame. "In this position, (he) was beaten with fists on (his) face. Then they beat me with a plastic hose on my feet." 

"Later, I had to turn around face-down and was tied to the bed. In that position, I was beaten again with a hose on my back and on the head. I was also subjected to electric shocks to various parts of my body including my left arm and chest."

Others described similar experiences. Medical reports confirmed them. Since September 2011, AI confirmed at least 12 detainee deaths. Forensic evidence showed extreme abuse. NTC officials knew and do nothing, even when family members filed complaints.

Last September, they promised "to bring any armed groups under official authorities and (to) fully investigate any incidents brought to (their) attention."

According to AI, "(t)his pledge has not been fulfilled. As long as defense lawyers and judicial authorities have no access to thousands of (detainees, they) remain held without trial or any means to challenge the legality of their detention...."

Moreover, extrajudicial killings occur. Investigations are announced but not conducted. Violence, impunity, and injustice continue. Libyans felt safe under Gaddafi. Occupation now terrorizes them. 

Responsibility lies with NATO's killing machine, puppet NTC stooges, and recruited killer gangs. 

Today's Libya is charnel house hell. It's the same wherever NATO intervenes. Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, and other victims know its horrors. As a result, their liberating struggles continue.


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All this torture, murder and mayhem is so much nicer and more humanitarian when Obama does it, rather than Gadaffi. It's probably time for another peace prize. Subscribe to *Neo-Lib Chickenhawk Wars*

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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)

They never thought they would see the US bankrupt and all that foreign aid cut off.

All they have is the extortion racket, and US foreign aid.

When the USSA is occupying Israel, the violence in MENA will ebb.

Not much longer now.

Wonder how long it's going to take for ISAF to look into this:

A spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, Capt. Justin Brockhoff, said ISAF officials are looking into the reported incident but have no indications that any ISAF aircraft have been lost.

Abdul Rahman Sarjang, the chief of police in eastern Laghman province, said it was an American helicopter that crashed, but he had no other details....

About as long as it's taking USSAMSM to look into this:

1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force in one month! So as the labor force increased from 153.9 million to 154.4 million, the non institutional population increased by 242.3 million meaning, those not in the labor force surged from 86.7 million to 87.9 million. Which means that the civilian labor force tumbled to a fresh 30 year low of 63.7%

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-02-19   9:29:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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