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Hundreds of Gaddafi Supporters Killed

George Weber | 26.10.2011 20:48 | Guantánamo | Globalisation | Repression | Terror War | Cambridge

Hundreds of Gaddafi Supporters Killed in New 'War Crime' ... More atrocities conducted during the Libyan conflict have emerged as the bodies of 267 people, thought to have been executed have been discovered in Sirte, a local Libyan newspaper reported  http://uk.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/533/libya/ . Most of those found dead were supporters of Gaddafi, a Red Cross source told the online Libyan newspaper Qurynanew. The majority of the bodies appear to have been executed and were subsequently buried in mass graves in Sirte, the birthplace of Gaddafi, and the surrounding area, the source said.

Hundreds of Gaddafi Supporters Killed ...
Hundreds of Gaddafi Supporters Killed ...


The newspaper also said that officials from Benghazi and Sirte numbered and photographed the bodies before burying them.
They have also set up an archive to store the information they have gathered, aimed at the families of the victims.
The Transitional National Council (TNC) pledged to investigate the deaths and punish the perpetrators.
The new macabre discovery comes as Human Right Watch (HRW) also uncovered 53 decaying bodies, thought to be those of Gaddafi loyalists, abandoned in a hotel in Sirte.
A further 95 bodies at the site where Gaddafi was captured, were alsao listed by HRW. It said that most of them had been killed in fighting or as a result of NATO airstrikes, it also said that up to ten bodies appeared to have been executed. ...... M O R E by Anissa Haddadi:  http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/238129/20111026/hundreds-of-dead-gaddafi-supporters-found-will-war-crimes-be-left-unpunished.htm

Picture: Hundreds of Gaddafi Supporters Killed in New 'War Crime' - Medical and militia officials in Tripoli exhume two corpses from a site they identified as a mass grave .....  http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/middle/2011/10/26/180024-medical-and-militia-officials-in-tripoli-exhume-two-corpses-from-a-sit.jpg

P.S.: welt.de, Propaganda: Gaddafis Familie will in Den Haag gegen Nato klagen ... Die Familie des getöteten Ex-Diktators plant eine Klage gegen die Nato. Die Rebellen waren einem libyschen Diplomaten zufolge nicht Schuld am Tod Gaddafis. .......  http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article13682889/Gaddafis-Familie-will-in-Den-Haag-gegen-Nato-klagen.html



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