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In reply to the discussion: Caught on video: Horrifying proof that Libya's freedom fighters have turned into brutal torturers [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)so-called 'rebels' were and there was no way to deny those reports, it was literally impossible to go on believing this was in any way a 'people's movement'.
The reports from Libya since the brutal, war crime committed when Gadaffi was sodomized on the street with a knife in grotesque display of incredible depravity, condemned by every decent human being, have been heart-breaking.
All the social programs instituted during the previous government's reign, are no longer available. A country that was once prosperous, more so than many in Europe, has now been destroyed. But the worst reports have been about the tens of thousands of supporters or those who were neutral, being dragged off to jails and tortured have been heart-breaking. Add to all of that the fact that the numbers supposedly killed by Gadaffi have now proven to have been false, the original reporter of those figures presented to the UN, admitting, he had no clue and just went around asking people and basically made them up.
For Africa in general, as one African leader said, Libya's invasion by Western Powers is the beginning of the next colonization of the African Continent.
Additionally, the numbers of civilians killed by NATO bombs far, far exceeds earlier reports, although with the chaos that now exists in a once stable country, as someone said, the NTC cannot control the violence, it is hard for human rights organizations to get accurate figures. There have been mass killings with bodies found bound and executed.
This was the humanitarian intervention that actual Libyans, not the expats we usually heard from, did not want.
I am only sorry I ever supported to begin with. But not for long as it did become apparent that things were not what we thought from pretty early on.
Those poor people. They live in fear every day and human rights organizations are having great difficulty getting to see those who are detained, or identfying the Black Africans who were slaughtered for their families. Anyone left there, if they are still alive, must be terrified. I hope they manage to get out