HRI is an evidence-based, independent and rigorous investigation of human rights abuses. HRI investigated and published on its website a number objective and thorough human rights investigations on the crimes committed in Libya by the Islamists rebels against prisoners of war, African workers, and Libyan civilians. These horrific atrocities were executed with direct military and political support and directions from Obama and his NATO mercenaries which included: Sarkozy; Cameroon; and Al-Thani (of Qatar). These persons and states must be brought to national and international justice and pay for their horrendous crimes.
The main reports are:
1- Responsibility to protect: the liberation of Sirte;
[The rebels, described in NATO circles as a ‘proxy army” were allowed by NATO to indiscriminately shell the town with tank fire, heavy mortar fire and artillery. Here is some footage from the ‘Information Office of the Misrata Mujahid Battalion’ to illustrate the point]
[In what should be the final death-blow to the notion that NATO air power combined with undisciplined and in some cases genocidal mobs supplied with NATO weaponry on the ground can effectively ‘protect’ a civilian population it has become clear that fifty-three people were summarily executed by the rebels in the garden of the Mahari hotel in Sirte. ]
2- Colonel Gaddafi captured and killed;
[Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi was reportedly captured and shot dead 20 October. As the evidence below shows the Libyan leader and his son Mutassim were summarily executed by the rebels, sharing the fate of so many Libyans in this conflict.]
[Muammar’s son, Mutassim Gaddafi was captured at the same time as his father and video shows him still alive after capture, drinking water and smoking a cigarette]
[On the death of Mutassim the Mahmoud Jibril said: “As for Mutassim there is a wound in the head and a break in the skull and five bullets in the back and one in the neck.”]
3- Sarkozy, Cameron, Obama, Al-Thani and the suffering of the children of Sirte;
[The horrific video below shows a 1 minute slice of the horror visited upon Sirte, where little children are being mutilated, killed and Libya’s future destroyed in the interests of the war-mongers, the egos of NATO leaders, the profits of arms companies and improved access to Libyan resources.
The footage from Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte is an indictment of the western political class, wedded to militarism and war, funded by arms companies, protected by a war-mongering media and oblivious to the consequences of their policies. Indeed, this video was filmed hot on the heels of Sarkozy and Cameron celebrating the rebel ‘victory’ in Benghazi at the site of the lynchings of black men in that city.]
4- NATO ‘protection of civilians’ – propaganda and pretense to escape war crimes trials;
[As is now well documented, the rebellion in Libya began with violent attacks on police stations, such as this one in Al-Bayda where people locked inside were reportedly burnt to death. An intensive propaganda campaign systematically distorted the facts on the ground, including in particular allegations that the Libyan air force was bombing peaceful protestors and that Libyan soldiers were being massacred for not shooting on unarmed protestors (since proven to have been a false flag operation). This propaganda allowed a mobilization of the international community and the passing of UN Resolution 1973 which imposed the No-Fly Zone.]
5- Ethnic cleansing, genocide and the Tawergha;
[In a June 21 article in the Wall Street Journal, Sam Dagher described Tawergha as a town inhabited mostly by black Libyans, a legacy of its 19th-century origins as a transit town in the slave trade. He quoted one of the rebel commanders from the rebel Misrata brigade: Ibrahim al-Halbous, a rebel commander leading the fight near Tawergha, says all remaining residents should leave once if his fighters capture the town. “They should pack up,” Mr. Halbous said. “Tawergha no longer exists, only Misrata.”]
[An important part of any genocide is the demonisation and dehumanisation of the victims and this continues to be the case for the Tawergha. As part of the information war NATO and the rebels have described all loyalist black fighters, guest workers from sub-Saharan Africa and even black skinned inhabitants of Libya as ‘mercenaries’]
[Some of the hatred of Tawergha has racist overtones that were mostly latent before the current conflict. On the road between Misrata and Tawergha, rebel slogans like “the brigade for purging slaves, black skin” have supplanted pro-Gadhafi scrawl.] [“The Misrata people are still looking for black people,” said Hassan, a Tawergha resident who’s now sheltering in a third camp in Janzour, six miles east of Tripoli. “One of the men who came to this camp told me my brother was killed yesterday by the revolutionaries.”]
[Most homes and buildings in the area appeared to have been damaged in the fighting, and a half-dozen appeared to have been ransacked. The main road into the village was blocked with earthen berms. Signs marking the way to the village appeared to have been destroyed. On the only sign remaining “Tawergha” had been painted over with the words “New Misrata.” On one wall in Tawergha, graffiti referred to the town’s residents as “abeed,” a slur for blacks (slaves).]
6- High treason, barbarity and the importance of the Geneva Conventions in Libya;
[On Saturday 17th September, as reported by Al Jazeera, Ahmed Bani, the interim government’s military spokesman, said gave army personnel still loyal to Gaddafi a last chance to join the ranks of former rebel fighters: “The soldiers and officers who will not heed this last call will be accused of high treason.”
The invocation of high treason in civil war (“non-international armed conflict”) situations is a highly disreputable maneuver designed to deny any legal obligations to adversaries due under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocols of 1977.]
7- NATO bombing of Sirte: the new Guernica;
[According to NATO’s own figures, Sirte has been bombed with 340 “key hits” from 25th August to 16th September.] [Moussa Ibrahim, in a call from a satellite phone to Reuter’s office in Tunis on Saturday 17th September, said: “NATO attacked the city of Sirte last night with more than 30 rockets directed at the city’s main hotel and the Tamin building, which consists of more than 90 residential flats. “The result is more than 354 dead and 89 still missing and almost 700 injured in one night.” “In the last 17 days more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes.”]
8- Ethnic cleansing in Libya: Jesse Jackson Jr slams Mahmoud Jibril;
[Some important reactions to the ethnic cleansing of Tawergha – The San Francisco BayView has followed up on the reporting of the Wall Street Journal, the Black Star News and Human Rights Investigations on the ethnic cleansing of Tawergha with an article entitled: Libya: Tawergha, city of Blacks, depopulated – Rep. Jesse Jackson calls for investigation of ‘crimes against humanity’.
A Black Star News report follows the remarks made by NTC Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, giving the seal of approval to the ethnic cleansing. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr, who served as a national co-chairman of the 2008 Obama election campaign and who is a civil rights activist and stated on Wednesday: “Racism in the form of ethnic cleansing, killing and genocide is wrong anytime, anyplace and against anybody in the world. And it appears as though the rebel leader, Mahmoud Jibril, is using the American idea that the South used to protect the institution of slavery – the 10th Amendment in our Constitution – to say, in essence, ‘it’s a states’ right and local control issue.’” “Well, it’s not a local issue and it’s a moral outrage,” he added.]
9- Tawargha – the final solution;
[The final chapter is now being written for Tawargha, as reported by Sam Dagher of the Wall Street Journal. Mahmoud Jibril, the NTC prime minister, rubber-stamped the wiping of the town off the map at the Misrata town hall: “Regarding Tawergha, my own viewpoint is that nobody has the right to interfere in this matter except the people of Misrata.” “This matter can’t be tackled through theories and textbook examples of national reconciliation like those in South Africa, Ireland and Eastern Europe,” he added as the crowd cheered with chants of “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest.”
The WSJ goes on to report: Now, rebels have been torching homes in the abandoned city 25 miles to the south. Since Thursday, The Wall Street Journal has witnessed the burning of more than a dozen homes in the city Col. Gadhafi once lavished with money and investment. On the gates of many vandalized homes in the country’s only coastal city dominated by dark-skinned people, light-skinned rebels scrawled the words “slaves” and “negroes.” “We are setting it on fire to prevent anyone from living here again,” said one rebel fighter as flames engulfed several loyalist homes. For the former residents this is still not the end of the story, as reported recently by human rights workers in Tripoli, male inhabitants of the town who fled are being tracked down and rounded up in Tripoli and sent to Misrata to face the tender mercies of the mob there.]
10- Libya – The Racist Revolution – Tawargha;
[As our regular readers will be aware, we have been reporting on the fate of the people of Tawergha since the local rebel commander Ibrahim al-Halbous, said he was going to wipe the town off the map. We reported the storming of the town, with NATO support, and the extremely worrying reports of prisoners in shipping crates and the people of the town being “handed over to the red cross,” which they weren’t (see ‘Tawergha no longer exists, only Misrata’).
We relayed the reports from Diana Eltahawy of Amnesty International about the inhabitants who managed to flee being persecuted in Tripoli. Andrew Gilligan, a reporter from The Sunday Telegraph, now reports from Tawergha: This pro-Gaddafi settlement has been emptied of its people, vandalised and partly burned by rebel forces. The Sunday Telegraph was the first to visit the scene of what appears to be the first major reprisal against supporters of the former regime.
“We gave them thirty days to leave,” said Abdul el-Mutalib Fatateth, the officer in charge of the rebel garrison in Tawarga, as his soldiers played table-football outside one of the empty apartment blocks. “We said if they didn’t go, they would be conquered and imprisoned. Every single one of them has left, and we will never allow them to come back.”
Andrew Gillighan is a serious reporter and he even mentions the racial context: And as so often in Libya, there is also a racist undercurrent. Many Tawargas, though neither immigrants nor Gaddafi’s much-ballyhooed African mercenaries, are descended from slaves, and are darker than most Libyans. Along the road that leads into Tawargha, the Misurata Brigade has painted a slogan. It says, “the brigade for purging slaves [and] black skin.”.
We have to say, the racist element is more than an undercurrent, but if more journalists had reported the truth rather than turning a blind eye, refusing to report or to investigate then perhaps lives could still be saved.
In this context we should just mention the ”reporting” of so-called journalists such as Chris Stephen who has been in Misrata for weeks writing pro-war, pro-NATO propaganda for the benefit of the Guardian’s readership and failing miserably to report on the racist atrocities and ethnic cleansing.]
NATO Libyan Islamist Rebels Killed Prisoners of War and Injured Suspects
11- NATO’s ‘responsibility to protect’ doesn’t extend to black migrants;
[Hundreds of African workers are stuck in various locations including about 1,000 at the military port of Sidi Bilal six miles west of Tripoli, fearing for their lives, with little water and limited provisions. This situation has been going on for weeks, with the ICRC finally delivering some water on 5 September.
Macclatchy’ David Enders reports: The rebels who ring the camp suddenly open fire. Then they race into the camp, shouting “gabbour, gabbour” — Arabic for whore — and haul away young women, residents say. “You should be here in the evening, when they come in firing their guns and taking people,” one woman from Nigeria said Wednesday as she recounted the nightly raids on the camp. “They don’t use condoms, they use whatever they can find,” she said, pointing to a discarded plastic bag in a pile of trash. As she spoke, other women standing nearby nodded in agreement.
One of the women describes the feelings of the inhabitants of the camp: Stacey Alexandra, 26, who said she had spent the last three years in Libya cleaning private homes and hotels and sending money back to family in Cameroon. “Now everyone here wants to leave. This country is too racist.”
David Enders reports further: There is no way to know how many women have been raped here, where hundreds of Africans have settled in and around the boats of a marina. No one keeps statistics in the camp, and foreign aid workers say they are prohibited from discussing the allegations on the record. [Our emphasis] International Red Cross representatives say only that they have spoken to rebel leaders about “security concerns.”]
12- The fate of the Tawarghans – soon to be shared by Sabha;
[Now Amnesty International’s Diana Elthaway reports that the 10,000s of Tawarghans who have fled to Tripoli (and other dark-skinned-Libyans) are facing continuing persecution from the Misratan rebels who have now caught up with them in the capital. One lady from Tawargha describes how the townsfolk fled: “When the thuwwar (revolutionists) entered our town in mid-Ramadan [mid-August] and shelled it, we fled just carrying the clothes on our backs. I don’t know what happened to our homes and belongings. Now I am here in this camp, my son is ill and I am too afraid to go to the hospital in town. I don’t know what will happen to us now.”]
[The evidence suggests that Tawarghas are fearful of going outside, cannot return home and have been abused, detained (even whilst in hospital) and gone missing] [Even in the refugee camps, the Tawarghas are not safe. Towards the end of last month, a group of armed men drove into the camp and arrested about 14 men – and their relatives do not know of their fate. Amnesty also report that “in addition to Tawarghas, other black Libyans including from the central Sabha district as well as sub-Saharan Africans continue to be at particular risk of reprisals and arbitrary arrests, on account of their skin colour and widespread reports that al-Gaddafi forces used “African mercenaries” to repress supporters of the NTC.”]
[Even in the refugee camps, the Tawarghas are not safe. Towards the end of last month, a group of armed men drove into the camp and arrested about 14 men – and their relatives do not know of their fate. Amnesty also report that “in addition to Tawarghas, other black Libyans including from the central Sabha district as well as sub-Saharan Africans continue to be at particular risk of reprisals and arbitrary arrests, on account of their skin colour and widespread reports that al-Gaddafi forces used “African mercenaries” to repress supporters of the NTC.”]
[Sabha is mainly inhabited by Libyans of mixed and black African descent and the population is temporarily safe from being massacred by the hostile rebels from Misrata or from the Western Mountains due to its geographical remoteness as the routes to Sabha traverse large expanses of barren and desert landscape, although there is a medalled road which the rebels will no doubt be travelling down once they have dealt with the conundrum of Bani Walid. As well as the native inhabitants, more than 1,200 African migrants are stranded in the town according to the International Organization for Migration.]
13- Senator John McCain quick to support the racist lynch mobs;
[Senator McCain R-Arizona the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, was quickly off the mark to Benghazi in April to give political support to the rebels. And here is footage of the rebel lynching which took place before Senator McCain’s visit, at the same location. WARNING VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO. The video shows a man being strung up and beheaded. In Benghazi, McCain attracted a crowd so enthusiastic that at one point he joked, “I’ve got to bring you to Arizona.” He called on President Obama to recognize the rebel government, provide more air support like AC130 anti-tank and A10 ground support aircraft, get anti-tank weapons into rebel hands, train rebels on target marking technology and give the them satellite phones to aid communication.]
14- Human Rights Watch and persecution of black people in Tripoli;
[HRW is one of the members of the “Responsibility to Protect coalition” and has been slow to condemn the racist atrocities of the Libyan rebellion and has little to say about the bombing of civilians by NATO in places like Zlitan. HRW is not to be confused with Human Rights Investigations (HRI) which opposes the NATO bombing, supporting the African Union position on Libya and has worked to expose the racial element to the conflict. The HRW article contains evidence of black Libyans and sub-Saharan guest workers being abused in Tripoli, which have already been widely reported, as well as hopes for an “embryonic legal system” in Tripoli.]
[HRW witnessed black men being taken into the Bab al-Bahr football club – but weren’t allowed by the commander to see what was happening inside. The commander claimed the detainees were all “foreign fighters” but their families were outside complaining and the four they were allowed to interview who were apparently being released were elderly Libyans.
HRW also found black people – a mixture of black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans - detained in other places around Tripoli including the Maftuah prison in the Fernaj neighborhood, (300 detainees on September 1 including wounded). In this prison HRW described the conditions for Libyan detainees as acceptable, but “the sub-Saharan Africans were in overcrowded cells with a putrid stench; one cell had 26 people and six mattresses and the African men complained of inadequate water, poor sanitation and not being allowed to make phone calls to ask family members to bring their documents.” At a school in the Intisar neighborhood, 76 detainees including 3 women were found on September 1. About half of the detainees appeared to be sub-Saharan Africans, the remainder being Libyans accused of having fought for Gaddafi. HRW saw the prisoners being prepared for transfer to the Mitiga air base.]
15- NATO’s secret weapon – racism;
[Human Rights Investigations has been repeatedly warning about the Libyan rebels and it has become increasingly clear that racism lies at the very heart of the conflict in Libya. It now clear that the rebel forces are NATO (and Qatar and UAE)’s proxy fighters on the ground. Many of these fighters have been recruited and motivated on the basis of psy-ops about African mercenaries, fired up by viagra, mass-raping women and pillaging their cities - discredited stories which have been spread and amplified by rebel commanders, NATO ministers, the media and ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo.
The effects of this pernicious propaganda campaign have been seen in Benghazi, Misrata and Tawergha and across the nation and are now being seen on the streets of Tripoli as rebels round up black-skinned Libyans and African guest workers, putting them into football stadiums.]
[Racism lies at the heart of many of the NATO campaigns, including in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq where innocents are slaughtered in a way that simply would not be accepted if the victims were white.] [To appreciate the importance of racism in motivating soldiers please listen to Mike Prysner’s speech made at the 2008 Winter Soldier hearings: video]
16- Amnesty and racist rebel atrocities in Libya;
[Amnesty today report on the killing of black and dark-skinned people in Libya after Amnesty workers personally see them targetted in Tripoli. The article clearly recognises this is part of a bigger pattern: An Amnesty delegation visiting the Central Tripoli Hospital on Monday witnessed three thuwwar revolutionaries (as the opposition fighters are commonly known) dragging a black patient from the western town of Tawargha from his bed and detaining him. The men were in civilian clothing.]
[From the start of the Libyan rebellion black people in Libya have been attacked and lynched by rebel mobs. This has been known by human rights groups and the United Nations as well as by the intelligence agencies, military forces, media and political leaders in the NATO countries – but they have generally kept a lid on it because it does not suit the narrative.]
17- More Tripoli Atrocities – Alex Thomson saves Nigerians;
[NATO backed rebels storm the district of Abu Salim. Black men are rounded up and forced to chant rebel slogans.] [AL Jazeera reports from the Abu Salim hospital where according to Kim Sengupta of The Independent rebels executed patients.] [“Come and see. These are blacks, Africans, hired by Gaddafi, mercenaries,” shouted Ahmed Bin Sabri, lifting the tent flap to show the body of one dead patient, his grey T-shirt stained dark red with blood, the saline pipe running into his arm black with flies. Why had an injured man receiving treatment been executed? Mr Sabri, more a camp follower than a fighter, shrugged. It was seemingly incomprehensible to him that anything wrong had been done.]
[Unfortunately, most of the media, with a few honorable exceptions, has chosen to downplay or totally ignore the attacks on black people in the city, derided any possibility of a peaceful solution and focused entirely on massacres allegedly committed by the western-trained (link to new wikileaks cable) Libyan army.
30 August: More honest reporting from Patrick Coburn in The Independent: But the Libyan rebels are hostile to black Africans in general. One of the militiamen, who have been in control of the police station since the police fled, said simply: “Libyan people don’t like people with dark skins, though some of them may be innocent.”]
18- Finally… The UNHCR breaks the silence on murders of blacks in Tripoli;
[UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has issued a strong call for sub-Saharan Africans to be protected in Libya as reports emerge from Tripoli of people being targeted because of their colour as the city fell to rebel forces.] [The High Commissioner has urged restraint from rebel forces and Libyan civilians. “We have seen at earlier stages in this crisis that such people, Africans especially, can be particularly vulnerable to hostility or acts of vengeance,” he said. “It is crucial that humanitarian law prevails through these climactic moments and those foreigners – including refugees and migrant workers – are being fully and properly protected from harm,” he stressed.]
19- NATO’s peaceful and sustainable political solution: turn Tripoli into a slaughterhouse;
[NATO has been described as the rebel air force, but it is more accurate to describe the rebels as NATO’s ground forces. The National Transitional Council has little independence and NATO controls the rebel ground forces, arms them, trains them, provides advisers, provides massive fire support and decides on strategy. NATO controls the air and sea and little moves on the ground without NATO’s permission.]
[Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama and the NATO high command share the belief in the efficacy of violence combined with vigorous prosecution of the information war is the best way forward. NATO, of course, has no interest in fulfilling UN Security Council Resolution 1973 which established the no fly zone and mandate to protect civilians with “the aim of facilitating dialogue to lead to the political reforms necessary to find a peaceful and sustainable solution”]
[In making their decision the western leaders would have been encouraged by the enthusiastic participation of the western media in producing pro-war propaganda, who faithfully and uncritically report information provided by NATO, government spokespeople and intelligence sources. Anything which may seriously threaten the pro-war narrative is either not reported or downplayed (e.g. rebel atrocities, ethnic cleansing of Misrata and Tawergha, RAF massacre in Zlitan, peace initiatives, support for Gadhafi regime from Libyan people).
Support for Admiral Stavridis’ information war was also provided by ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo who has been a very enthusiastic participant in NATO psy-ops.
In any case, in an attack coordinated by NATO, rebels from the Western Mountains entered Tripoli from the west and ships delivered fighters from Misrata, fresh from ethnically cleansing Tawergha, into the city. NATO airstrikes were launched against the residential area of Abu Salim.]
20- The BBC coverage of Libya;
[One of the main problems for mainstream journalists is that they see what they want to see and ignore what doesn’t fit into the narrative provided to them by their most trusted sources – the government officials and intelligence agencies of the western powers. Stories which don’t fit the narrative are ignored or downplayed – for instance the RAF bombing of Zlitan, the lynching of black people including at rebel HQ in Benghazi, the ethnic cleansing in Misrata and Tawergha.
The cumulative effect of looking the wrong way, pursuing a narrative at odds with reality, lazily repeating government spin (propaganda) is a profound ignorance of actual reality and this clip of BBC news anchors illustrates the point.
Bill Turnbull says: “Let’s take you live to Tripoli. We want to show you some pictures there. This is people in Tripoli, in the center. I think its Green Square, renamed Martyr’s Square…” Kate Silverton says: “Officially I suppose still Green Square, but renamed by those, but as you can see a mass, a huge throng of people now turning out.” The magnificent duo fails to explain why the people of Tripoli are waving Indian flags. Of course other channels have made similar mistakes – e.g. Fox and Sky showing people celebrating in Benghazi whilst claiming they are in Tripoli.
BBC and Al Jazeera have been showing terrified black men being rounded up on their news. As they have consistently avoided reporting on racist atrocities in Libya they cannot provide any context to this and repeat rebel claims they are “mercenaries.” In other words the BBC is uncritically justifying a racist pogrom.]
21- Bombing of Zlitan by the RAF;
[Video evidence has emerged. This is highly disturbing footage and shows body parts and dead children as well as the grief and anger of the survivors and relatives of the dead in the immediate aftermath and at the hospital. It is clear that those helping survivors of the first strike were hit by the second and third strikes.] [Responsibility for the bombing of a civilian area at night and the inevitable civilian causalities lies with the military leadership of NATO including Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard and Admiral Stavridis and on the political leadership including William Hague and David Cameron who must have given the go-ahead to attacks of this nature.]
22- Tawergha no longer exists, only Misrata;
[Unfortunately, the mainstream media has not been giving any context to the battle for Tawergha, so most viewers will be entirely ignorant of the significance of this event. Rebel forces from Misrata, including one of their commanders, have long threatened to wipe Tawergha off the map, ethnically cleansing its inhabitants. The report from AL Jazeera shows at least one of the large residential blocks in Tawergha alight, prisoners packed inside a freight container (who the rebels didn’t want filmed), an injured man in civilian clothes and the rebel fighters evicting one of the last civilian left in the town (an Egyptian woman who has lost her 9 children under 12 who ran away during the attack.]
[The apparent fall of Tawergha was also reported by Orla Guerin of the BBC who also, disgracefully, failed to give the ethnic cleansing context despite actually interviewing Ibrahim al-Halbous, the very commander of whom the Wall Street Journal reported: Ibrahim al-Halbous, a rebel commander leading the fight near Tawergha, says all remaining residents should leave once if his fighters capture the town. “They should pack up,” Mr. Halbous said. “Tawergha no longer exists, only Misrata.”]
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WAR CRIMES VIDEO EVIDENCE
EVIDENCE
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LIBYAN CRISIS: CAUSES, EVENTS, FACTS
ON BEHALF OF THE GADAFFI FAMILY AND SAIF-AL ISLAM GADDAFI, I APPEAL FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE
URGENT APPEAL FOR THE LIFE OF AHMED IBRAHIM
URGENT APPEAL FOR THE LIFE OF DR. ABUZAID DORDA
URGENT APPEAL FOR THE LIFE OF SHEIK KHALED TANTOUSH
THE MASSACRE OF EL-HAMEDI FAMILY
STOP THE EXTRADITION OF BAGHADI AL-MAHMOUDI
HUMANITARIAN WAR IN LIBYA? THERE IS NO EVIDENCE!
Antoine Triquet said:
well done for bringing at last some light of what looks to be a most horrendous slaughter by nato
Christy Johnson said:
sadly this is occurring in other countries as well AND has been prior to Obama going into office.
Veritas said:
Obama was responsible for more murders in his first 3 months of office than Bush in 8 years and he is the first world leader to openly engage in extrajudicial assassinations and to violate the war powers act without facing impeachment.
Atiq Ur Rehman Mirza said:
ALLAH BLESS M,USLIMS AAMEEN SUM AAMEEN
Sally Robbins said:
This is disgusting, I demand justice for these innocent people…No more War atrocities
Tarig Anter said:
I posted my answer to Alexandra:
http://tariganter.wordpress.com/about/#comment-798
Jamahiryah Warrior said:
@Tarig
Re: “I posted my answer to Alexandra:
http://tariganter.wordpress.com/about/#comment-798”
“I am a NON-ethnic nationalist; Africanist (but NOT Pan-Africanist); federalist; Humanist; and I believe that all universal religions are corrupt. I believe in local faiths only.”
I don’t understand what this means.
Federalists are imperialists by another name. People promoting the US constitution were federalists and against the people.
http://revolutioncentral.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/towards-an-american-revolution-exposing-the-constitution-and-other-illusions/
Local faiths would contradict secular humanism so what local faiths are acceptable? How can this promote tollerance and unity?
Why are you against Pan-Africanism?
It sounds like the vision of the United States of Africa is not your vision which leads me to ask where you stand in relation to Muammar Gaddafi?
What is this “New modern Sudan” that is “far more important”?
How many were genocided to create this new Sudan?
You post about the crimes against Libya. What about Sudan?
http://allthingspass.com/journalism.php?catid=24
“My main project for some time is the design of new form of national democracy and system of governance, which I call it “Three Dimensional Democracy”. (XYZ democracy).”
http://www.modernghana.com/news/345063/1/three-dimensional-democracy-xyz-democrac.html
Have you read The Green Book?
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-green-book-by-muammar-al-gaddafi/
Sudan is in trouble. Only direct democracy can toss out the imperialist puppets, reunite the country and stop the genocide and the exploitation of its oil.
I do not see an alternate viable solution for any nation except direct democracy.
This is all disturbing to me because it sounds exactly like the Benghazi monarchist propaganda promoted by the House of Shame (Saud), Israel’s snake Bernard Henry Levy and America’s Murder Inc. Look at the “new Libya”. This is where these ideas lead, into the very pit of hell.
Tarig Anter said:
@Jamahiryah Warrior
The topic of this post is the crimes of Obama and his NATO in Libya; let us keep it organized. So I cannot elaborate on my personal convictions and beliefs here.
Thank you for commenting. My answers to you are on: http://tariganter.wordpress.com/about/
But first please take few minutes to read the About page; The Swadeshi Movement http://tariganter.wordpress.com/the-swadeshi-movement/ and Religions Against Faith http://tariganter.wordpress.com/religions-against-faith/
We can have good dialogue on that side but not here please.
Sid Chatfield said:
these governmental bodies and Nato need to be sent a claer message and that is Humanity deserves justice against them
Tarig Anter said:
@elsalovendahl
I mean, I have NO problem to post my answers here if any editor allows me to do this; or anyone else copied and pasted my answers here.
Alexandra said:
Tarig your links are adequate and yes, it takes time for comments to be moderated because I work full time. This is my ‘evening job’.
elsalovendahl said:
Tarig, I think Jamahiryah Warrior’s questions belong here because nothing on your site supports the life and work of Muammar Gaddafi or even mentions the great achievements of the People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
You refer to India as an icon of perfection but the reality is that India has become one of the worst fascist nations on the planet. Corporate rights supercede human rights. People are impoverished and oppressed, there is no freedom of speech, activists are being arrested and executed, entire tribes are being exterminated so corporations can take over rich mines, dams are being built that are destroying people’s lands and livelihood, female infanticide is rife, farmers are so destitute and overwhelmed they are committing suicide.
Even the UN development index chart shows India well below Libya for 2010;
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_hum_dev_ind-economy-human-development-index
If you refer to this document from the UN it’s clear there are no development indicators that relate to human rights for India;
http://www.undp.org.in/national_human_development_report_india
Children have no rights. They are used for slave labor and given jobs removing toxic parts for refurbishing computers and other similar dehumanizing tasks when they should be getting an education. Child mortality rates are staggering.
How these ideas translate into reality matters. This is a far cry from Ghandi’s vision and way behind the vision of Muammar Gaddafi.
Hinduism teaches people evolve through suffering. It glorifies poverty and pain as a path to holiness. The caste structure of inequity and the subordinate role of women is embedded in the teachings so I fail to see any answers here if we cite this religion as a solution.
Muammar Gaddafi would call this an example of backwardness and see it as something to grow beyond. His life was dedicated to raising people up and liberating them from the same systems you seem to be advocating for.
Tarig Anter said:
@elsalovendahl
Thanks very much
This may answer your points too:
http://tariganter.wordpress.com/contact-form/#comment-800
Alexandra said:
Tariq,
My first question to you was to ask,
“Do you identify strongly with your tribal roots? Can I clarify which tribe?”
I have only worked with Sudan’s tribal people (Dinka and Nuer). One of my clients was a boy of 15, when Israeli, Saudi, British and American agents, working with local mercenary recruits, exterminated his entire tribe. He was the only survivor out of 4,000 people.
Keith Harmon Snow has done an excellent job of covering the atrocities and naming the culprits.
Contrary to your outrageous statement aimed at Jamahiryah Warrior,
“What you are calling genocide was not committed by Obama’s NATO or foreigners.”
…they were in fact brutally murdered by foreign agents, hunted down like animals as they fled into the bush for cover. No one escaped injury, children, infants, the elderly, all of them shot. I met the survivors. I documented their statements and saw their wounds; physical, emotional and psychological. They would never have been granted refugee status had their cases not been legitimate.
What do you mean by this?
“The victims are seeking help from any angel and any devil…”
Your contempt for Sudan’s tribal people is shocking.
The pastoral tribes trace their history back 6,000 years.
They are wise and well educated about the organizations, nations and the globalist agenda that led to their holocaust. In contact with your tribal roots, you would have the same depth of insight. Disconnected, you experience alienation.
The tribal people are experts in the areas listed below and their understanding is closely aligned with Muammar Gaddafi’s.
-The relationship between the globalists and Islamists
-globalists created Wahhabi terrorism to destroy Islam and justify a global state
-Muslim Brotherhood, their origins and purpose
-globalists are targeting Africa to plunder
You say,
“The problems in Sudan are not the imperialist puppets like in Arab Gulf States but they are corruption; authoritarianism; and the inheritances of slavery and the Arab identity.”
This contradicts the tribal people’s testimony. They would also challenge your vision of Sudanese nationalism that excludes them.
While obsessing about the Arabs, you omit other key players in Sudan’s enslavement and anyone touting nationalist slogans while denying genocide is an imperialist, even if they are Sudanese.
How do you define corruption?
Selling out, betraying one’s own people for the sake of profit and western illusions of progress, racism, bigotry…these are the seeds of corruption.
The globalists want tribal people eliminated because the very structure of their psyche is fierce and rebellious. I see this as something to be nurtured, not destroyed by nationalism.
Right now the Nazi nationalist slogan is being promoted by Libya’s NTC as a means of de-legitimizing tribal authority and is a precursor to the further genocide of those who fail to comply.
Where I live, programs established to assist refugees are dehumanizing because their agenda is to annihilate all remaining vestiges of tribal identity and assimilate people into western culture.
While working within this system, I covertly worked against it; helping Muslims set up their own independent centres where they would be treated with respect and referring tribal people from Africa to places where they could continue their healing in a community that honoured them.
So it seems you and I are coming from divergent perspectives that are irreconcilable.
Tarig Anter said:
I agree that it seems you and I are coming from divergent perspectives that are irreconcilable.
What I said and I will continue saying on my blog are enough for those who want genuine dialogue and sincere understanding. Otherwise it is pointless to lay charges; twist the facts; and to dodge from realities.
Truth and reason will prevail and Africa will get back all North Africa, sooner or later, despite of the loud Arab and Western propaganda, wars, and machinations.
Jamahiryah Warrior said:
Tariq you are dodging many realities that are inconvenient, like genocide. You have not provided a direct answer to questions, just propaganda.
“Truth and reason will prevail and Africa will get back all North Africa, sooner or later, despite of the loud Arab and Western propaganda, wars, and machinations.”
Who will get North Africa back and back from where? You are allowing imperialists to destroy Sudan and you think the tribes do not belong in the new divided Sudan.
Do any tribes belong in your vision of the new Africa?
You avoid mentioning Israel’s role in the division and strife in Sudan.
Gaddafi’s plan would have protected African sovereignty. A United States of Africa and an African Union that is not divided between rival memberships with the Arab League or the Commonwealth is the way out for everyone.
I also support Gaddafi’s stand that a strong united bloc would be stronger than separate nations. Speaking of North Africa only begs the question, what about all of Africa?
Gaddafi’s vision was the opposite of globalism, where yours aligns with globalism.
Miroslav Pavičević said:
Saying that India is a model of progress and Hinduism is answer to religious needs is comparable to saying that Auschwitz concentration camp was a good model of social housing.
All kinds of weirdos contemplate on Libya.
Let’s cut the crap. Proud Libyan Jamahiriya tribes are in danger of extermination. Yes, tribes, people, not theories.
For instance, my personal motivation to become staunch supporter of Qaddafi was not socialist-antiglobalist-religious-or-whatever agenda, but pictures of ultimate brutality of NATO and their armed gangs against civilized people. It’s that simple.
No theory is necessary to distinct right from wrong. And act on behalf of Green Libya Resistance. Or tribes in Sudan.
Alexandra said:
Agreed Miro, but it is important to hear the above from Africa.
This conversation highlighted:
-why Africa stood back and did nothing while NATO pounded the hell out of Libya and why they are still doing nothing
-the extent of globalist infiltration
-how African nations collude with empire, permitting genocides to happen, letting imperialists take over in the name of progress
-how globalists co-opt idealism and warp it to serve their own agenda and how those so co-opted cannot see that they have been used
-the globalist agenda with regards to tribal people everywhere
-white supremacists are not Africa’s only enemies
It explains the complexity of issues we are dealing with when promoting the vision of Muammar Gaddafi with regards to African and Arab unity, the creation of a stable bloc against empire, the establishment of genuine direct democracy and liberating humanity from all forms of oppression.
Our interventions are only as effective in so far as we can target the obstacles and eliminate them.
Educating people so they can recognize the early warning signs of danger before it is too late is critical.
If we fail to defeat the globalists on this front, we can set up perfect replicas of the People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya world-wide and it will continue to be infiltrated, undermined and destroyed.
Any compromise with empire is certain death to democracy.
All future efforts must be pure and until Africa and the rest of the world wake up, we must escalate our supportive and revolutionary actions on all fronts.
Jamahiryah Warrior said:
Tariq said
“I agree that it seems you and I are coming from divergent perspectives that are irreconcilable.”
It seems Tariq’s views are irreconcilable with anyone who wants nothing to do with empire, genocide, extermination of tribal people, enslavement, women’s rights trammelled, and who are invested in pursuing a sovereign Africa, human freedom and dignity and the only authentic democracy which was perfectly expressed in the Libyan Jamahiriya.
Libya was modern and the people enjoyed every convenience. The difference was they did not sell their souls to have it.
Until the people of Africa are aware of these seductions and that there are alternatives that will give them greater prosperity with dignity they will be easy prey. It is possible to have progress and abundance without sacrificing all that is good on the altar of empire.
We must become proactive. Education is helpful but maintaining and strengthening tribal connections where they exist and creating tribes where they are absent will give the revolutionary movement the resilience it needs to meet the challenges that are inevitable as the people’s movements advance.
Eve said:
I just read Orwell’s essay on nationalism. It’s worth the time and exposes the lie.
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/nationalism.html
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
- George Orwell
Jamahiryah Warrior said:
This explains why genocide gets no mention in Tariq’s comments.
“The world is tormented by innumerable delusions and hatreds which cut across one another in an extremely complex way.
As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit.
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by “our” side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
Alexandra said:
Jamahiryah Warrior, the globalist vision for Africa is an Africa without indigenous Africans, a continent open to unobstructed colonization and resource exploitation, a corporate playground. Tribal societies that resist would be exterminated and Africans who are co-opted to work for the imperialists will become a permanent slave class.
After reading Tariq’s response to you I added some additional information to my comment above.
Eve said:
This war has been a radical learning experience for me. I can’t look at anything the same as I did before.
I’ve been totally captivated by Gadhafi’s vision because he spoke the truth and created a space where Libyans could experience a reality the rest of us still dream about. Some of us are trying to recreate it but we’ve got so much working against us.
I’ve watched the antiwar movement go down and we’ve seen fake pro-Libya sites shilling for Nazis. We’re all protective of Libya and we’re angry and sick of war.
Really hard days are ahead for Libyans whether they’re with the resistance or not. If there’s anything we can do to prevent a repeat of the Libyan disaster, we’d better get our lessons in now. If the antiwar movement had taken time to learn the tricks globalists use, they’d still be active and effective instead of the pathetic lot of left apologists they’ve turned into.
Some things are simple but the way language has been used to subvert people and recruit them into totally evil alliances isn’t and its something I want to investigate.
Thanks for the insights everyone.
moodyelf said:
it seems to me that there is no getting away from the fact that what we refer to as “the west” and “the capitalist system” (with its handmaiden of representative democracy) has essentially been built on chattel slavery, debt peonage and genocide.
rather than seeing these as side-effects, we need to understand that global capital cannot function, or even exist without recourse to violence. imperialism and war are merely the natural outcomes of a system that places profit above life, (human, animal, plant), that sees all of creation as something to be exploited, and poverty as the necessary oil that greases the wheels.
human philosophies and “ways of being” that run contrary to the globalists agenda are being exterminated. there is no doubt about it. So-called Gypsies, and Roma are being denied basic human rights across europe. the extended family units of travellers in the UK (no longer allowed to travel!) are under threat from outrageous bigotry masked as planning law. tribal systems are dangerous: they are fluid, their structure is interlocking rather than hierarchical, they inculcate self-sufficiency, and self reliance, consensus as a mode of organisation – they form bonds that are difficult to break and hard to control – all anathema to the globalist agenda of atomized, depoliticized, indentured slave/shopper zombies.
united we stand…
eve, you say,
“If the antiwar movement had taken time to learn the tricks globalists use, they’d still be active and effective instead of the pathetic lot of left apologists they’ve turned into…”
but i think it needs to be understood that, while there are many right-minded people in the anti-war movements in Europe and the US – and the same goes for the left in general – there has never been an imperialist war that they haven’t, at least initially, tried to justify, or been cheerleaders for.
their relationship with the establishment is characterized by a kind of red team/blue team shallowness. “You say this, I say that.”
but when it comes down to important things – like imperialism, colonialism, or the way in which the warmongers use racism, both as a driver for conflict on the ground of their foreign interventions, but also as a means of psychologically preparing their own citizens for the atrocities that “others” commit – they are silent.
i think that their function is reactive, rather than proactive – like the “consumer” organizations who never fail to rule for the corporations and against the people – their role is to demonstrate how free we are, how robust our democracies are. But ultimately, the reinforce the same regimes of truth:
that
the motives of the west are essentially good,
democracy is the best way of organising people
capitalism lifts people out of poverty
i’ve found none of this to be true
Nina Westbury said:
You are absolutely correct, imperialism will not end until capitalism is smashed. That is not just political theory or trying to push an agenda. The boom-and-bust cycles will always be a feature of the “market economy” and when the economy goes sour, imperialism becomes necessary to keep things afloat for empire. Whatever semblance of democracy is associated with neoliberalism, it is very far removed from any kind of legitimate democracy.
The “antiwar” movements in the US and UK are nothing more than vehicles for the opposition parties. Observe how the “antiwar” movement has collapsed in the US following the election of a Democratic president. The left-right paradigm, and partisan politics in general, is a trap that ties people to illusions in a nonexistent “progressive” wing of the elite. The “good” people in these antiwar movements need to be won to a revolutionary program. Otherwise they are just props.
The only system that can guarantee an end to extreme poverty, imperial war, murder-for-profit, and eventually racism and misogyny — is a socialist economy and a directly democratic political system. That is what Muammar Gaddafi built in Libya and as you know, the Jamahiriya is an overwhelming success by just about any measure.
We need to do our part to replicate the Jamahiriya everywhere. Revolutionary action is not just desirable but essential.
Alexandra said:
Native American woman holds a photo of Col. Muammar Gadhafi at the United Nations during his visit to the United States in 2009.
moodyelf, that same pattern of government suppression of indigenous people or people who choose to live outside the system is global. In North America, our indigenous people live under conditions of collective punishment every day and slow genocide is taking place through neglect of their basic needs, starvation, contaminated water, using their lands for uranium mining or toxic waste dumps, among other crimes against humanity.
The indigenous people of Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Central and South America, are all under the same threat.
What is interesting is a resurgence of indigenous culture over the past five decades in the US and Canada and the rise of the AIM. (The latter was supported by Muammar Gaddafi and a member of the AIM was awarded the Al-Gaddafi human rights award.)
I highly recommend the film, Common Enemies.
Nina, “imperialism will not end until capitalism is smashed.”
To “replicate the Jamahiriya everywhere” will be the death of capitalism. It is not only necessary for humanity but for the survival of our planet. The sooner the better.
moodyelf said:
alexandra
thanks for the heads up, i will certainly order a copy.
john pilger has also done some rigorous investigation into the plight of indigenous people. his films are available here
http://www.johnpilger.com/filmography
“Welcome to Australia,” from 1999 is definitely worth a look, as is “Pyramid Lake is Dying,” from 1976
Alexandra said:
Regarding all points discussed here and the problems highlighted, I encourage anyone interested in pursuing this in depth to view HUMANITARIAN WAR IN LIBYA and read ISRAEL AND LIBYA: PREPARING AFRICA FOR THE “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”.
free gypsy (@gypsysoil) said:
great work!!
as the listing shows the implementation of media involvement within the whole campaign under point 20 “The BBC coverage of Libya” I would suggest
to extend and deepen further investigations in regard to the role of the media.
Even if there are the main voices given by BBC and AJ it seems obvious that nearly all other mainstream media (major media, public media and so called independent media and journalists) have adopted, underlined and implemented the lead meaning initiated by BBC and AJ.
amongst others an investigation might include:
- evidence of the strategy of opinion building measures, because in democratic systems it is critical success factor to have the peoples opinion behind political decissions, but the media are the one who lead the opinion building process
- evidences of intentional false news reports. there were numerous samples which are showing fake editings and comments.
- evidences of “journalists” which are acting passively or actively as spies i.e. by sending GPS signals or other critical details.
- evidences of “journalists” which are taking active part in combat actions. i.e. there are reports and proofs of journalists which are participating actively in shootings.
etc. …
findings and results (clear, nearly clear or logical evidence) of an appropriate investigation should directly lead to:
- legal consequences
- banning and protest measures
directly confronting journalists in person, media companies & corporations and its associations, unions and further professional bodies.
elsalovendahl said:
Thanks free gypsy for those points highlighting media crimes and consequences.
This turned out to be a far more extensive resource that I’d imagined. Who knew the direction it would take? I’m glad we challenged the man and hope he reconsiders his current position with regards to Sudan at least. How many Africans suffer from the same delusions?
Sudan was one of the names on America’s hitlist in 2001 along with Iraq, Libya and Syria.