On May 14, 2012, Human Rights Watch released an important report, Unacknowledged Deaths: Civilian Casualties in NATO’s Air Campaign in Libya. The 82-page report reveals conclusively that some of NATO’s ten thousand sorties flown over Libya resulted in the deaths of at least seventy-two civilians, including twenty-four children. These are not large numbers, largely because HRW’s analysis is based on the most obvious cases and because its work was not assisted by an investigation of NATO’s own paperwork. HRW did not conduct a comprehensive investigation. That was not possible. Its investigators went to eight sites of NATO air strikes and found here that NATO’s bombs had indeed killed civilians. The findings, then, are not comprehensive. They are illustrative.
Sanctions against Syria and looming prospects of an intervention into the country are drawing ever more parallels with the war in Libya. But as it turned out, the “facts” used to wage a “humanitarian war” on Tripoli, underwent almost no verification.
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 war against Libya is built on fraud. The United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims, specifically that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi and Libya. The claim in its exact form was that Qaddafi had ordered Libyan forces to kill 6,000 people in Benghazi as well as in other parts of the country. These claims were widely disseminated, but always vaguely explained. It was on the basis of this claim that Libya was referred to the U.N. Security Council at U.N. Headquarters in New York City and kicked out of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Whenever major media Libya reports appear, truth is distorted, manipulated and falsified. For seven months, despite daily terror bombing and ground attacks, courageous loyalists bested the ferocity of NATO and its rebel army.
Sections of the world’s press continue to drift “off-message”. Here is confirmation of the “rebel” retreat at Sirte. Needless to say, the reports of the capture of one of Gaddafi’s sons turn out, once again, to be utter pish. Note that there are now 2000 Yamahiriya fighters in Sirte whereas Peter Beaumont in yesterday’s Guardian had that figure at 100. In its overwhelming majority the press continue with their “say anything for NATO’ approach.
Libyan Rebels Retreat as Gaddafi Loyalists Resist Fiercely in Sirte
Forces of the government of the Libyan rebels have pulled back under ferocious fire from Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the fugitive leader’s hometown Sirte on Thursday.
La télévision syrienne a diffusé, jeudi 6 octobre 2011, une émission spéciale avec Thierry Meyssan. Le président du Réseau Voltaire a tiré les leçons de son expérience en Libye.
On Sunday 25th the world media spread the news that Libyan Ntc found a mass grave with 1.200 bodies (or 1.700 according to other Ntc sources) near Abu Slim prison. Ntc said reporters that these were the bodies of prisoners who were killed by the government in Abu Slim in 1996. Of course the world media, first of all Al Jazeera, spread the news everywhere.
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