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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 03:29 PM
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43. *****MASSACRE OF BLACKS IN LIBYA BY NATO-BACKED REBELS CONTINUES AS WORLD WATCHES*****
Massacre of Blacks in Libya By NATO-backed Rebels Continues As World Watches
By Milton Allimadi

The Wall Street Journal reports today that Black people have been emptied from the City of Tawergha in Libya, their homes razed, and that the words "slaves" and "negroes" are scribbled on their abandoned buildings in the now ghost town by the NATO-backed rebels.

The chilling account of ethnic-cleansing of Black people in Libya, occurring right before our eyes, appears under the headline "Revenge Feeds Instability in Libya."

These are the "liberators" that President Barack Obama, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister David Cameron helped install in Libya to replace Maummar al-Quathafi? They all rejected an African Union proposal that would have brought a ceasefire and the warring parties to a table to create a constitution and to hold elections.

Meanwhile, the so-called "prime minister" of the "rebels" Mahmoud Jibril, is quoted in the Journal, with respect to the fate of the Black citizens of Tawergha, saying: "Regarding Tawergha my own viewpoint is that nobody has the right to interfere in this matter except the people of Misurata," who are actually the ones doing the cleansing. Surely Jibril knows that he's inciting to further ethnic cleansing.

Read more: http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7623/2011-09-13.html
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