9/17/11, "Rampant racism – Black migrants barred from fleeing Libya," GlobalCiviliansforPeace
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1/26/12, "Libya militias, army, torturing detainees: watchdog," AFP
"The torture is being carried out by officially recognised military and security entities, as well by a multitude of armed militias operating outside any legal framework," it (Amnesty International) said....
"We are not aware of any proper investigations into cases of torture," she said.
Detainees told Amnesty they had been beaten for hours with whips, cables, plastic hoses, metal chains, bars, wooden sticks and given
- electric shocks with live wires.
The watchdog said the detainees, both Libyans and foreigners from sub-Saharan Africa, were tortured soon after they were seized by militias in officially recognised detention centres in places like Misrata....
Doctors Without Borders said it has suspended its work in Misrata where detainees are "being tortured and denied urgent medical care."
It said its doctors were increasingly confronted with patients who suffered injuries caused by "torture" during questioning.
"The interrogations were held outside the detention centres," it said.
Its general director Christopher Stokes said some officials have sought to exploit and obstruct its work in Misrata.
"Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for further interrogation. This is unacceptable," he said.
"Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions.""...
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Blacks have been fleeing Libya due to longtime ethnic cleansing. Now some are being caught, brutalized, and prevented from leaving. Even if they make it out of Libya they're starving, penniless refugees, thanks to Obama. African blacks have been chased by both Gaddafi and 'rebels'-everyone in Libya hates blacks. Estimated US taxpayer contribution to this range from $100 to $300 million dollars a week (item near end of article) for animals to run a holocaust. GOP "leadership" eagerly agreed to finance crimes against humanity.
9/17/11, "Rampant racism – Black migrants barred from fleeing Libya," GlobalCiviliansforPeace
"“We have had to stop the evacuation process for the time being because the NTC says they have to make sure of the migrants, to register them and to identify who is a real migrant and who is not,” spokesman Jumbe Omari Jumbe told Reuters.
More than 3,000 migrants and their family members, mainly from Chad, Niger, Somalia, Eritrea and Nigeria, but also from Jordan, Egypt and Pakistan, are stuck in Sabha. The city is controlled by pro-Gaddafi forces and is under siege by the troops of the NTC.
Many of them have no identity papers because they fled from violence and possible persecution in great haste, says the IOM. Some of the refugees had been living in Libya for years before the civil war forced them to flee.
The IOM’s latest plan had been to evacuate the migrants by road to Tripoli, for further transport to Tunisia, as the road to Chad was deemed perilous, Jumbe said.
Sub-Saharan residents of Libya have been targeted by rebel forces ever since they took control of the capital, Tripoli. There were reports of mass round-ups and abuse of the migrants.
Before the war, between 1.5 million and 2.5 million migrants lived in the country, but more than 600,000 have fled, mainly to Tunisia and Egypt, according to the IOM."
Blacks wait for bus in 'rebel' stronghold port, AFP
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9/24/11, "NATO powers indifferent to Libyan refugees," Modern Ghana, Bill Van Auken
"The same NATO countries that have waged war on Libya in the name of “protecting civilians” have given “an abysmal response to the plight” of refugees during this conflict,
- Amnesty International charged in a report released Tuesday.
- they are no longer allowed to go anywhere else.
The majority have fled the country, losing their livelihoods and facing extreme hardship. For many thousands, however, escape has proven thus far impossible.
At least 1,500 of these workers are believed to have lost their lives trying to flee Libya by boat. NATO, which has deployed a naval armada off the Libyan coastline, was charged with refusing to rescue people who drowned or died of thirst or starvation while trying to make the crossing to Europe.
The majority of these workers came to Libya in search of work from poorer countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan.
They, along with black-skinned Libyans, have been targeted by the NATO-backed “rebels” for violent assaults, imprisonment and lynchings based on the spurious charge that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi used Sub-Saharan African mercenaries to defend his regime.
The US and the European powers that conducted the war against Libya have turned a blind eye to these racist pogroms, while celebrating the supposed dawn of a new “democracy” and lining up to secure a bonanza in oil and reconstruction contracts....
Needless to say, President Barack Obama made no mention of these atrocities in a speech delivered Tuesday to a “friends of Libya” meeting convened at the United Nations in New York City. He spoke only of a new Libya that would be “free and democratic and prosperous,” and about Washington's determination “to build new partnerships to help unleash Libya's extraordinary potential.”...
The report also aptly notes that these same European powers had aligned themselves previously with the Gaddafi regime, in part because of its promise to “stem the flow of people arriving in Europe from Africa.”
The report underscores the hypocrisy of the claims made by Washington, London and Paris that the war they waged to overthrow the Gaddafi regime in Libya was motivated by a concern to “protect civilians.” The hostility and indifference toward the refugees squeezed out of the country by NATO bombardments and racist violence is emblematic of an imperialist war that has used “humanitarianism” as a pretext for the conquest of an oil-rich North African country."
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7/7/11, "House vote lets Obama continue U.S. Libya deployment," Washington Times, Stephen Dinan
"The House on Thursday gave implicit approval to President Obama to continue his deployment of American military forces to support the NATO mission in Libya, turning back repeated efforts to end U.S. involvement."...
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The R2P/UN doctrine is carried out by Obama and the GOP.
4/5/11, "Obama goes to war, the US left goes awol," UK Guardian, Clancy Sigal
"Once again, liberals have bought into American power as a force for good. But it's just another ugly, expensive war we now own"
"Liberal hawks never seem to learn that you can't get healthcare, decent schools and less unemployment by bombing smaller nations. Military adventures trump domestic rehab every time. We Americans have a very long history – going back to Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba and Woodrow Wilson in the first world war – of progressives going to war for the best, most irreproachable, humane, idealistic reasons, whether that meant saving Belgian babies from fiendish Hun bayonets or rescuing Benghazi civilians today.
It's extraordinary to watch progressives like NBC's Rachel Maddow, the New Republic's John Judis, Kevin Drum of Mother Jones, Juan Cole and many others cheerlead the "Obama doctrine" of humane intervention – that is, meddling militarily at "low cost", usually ending in disaster for all concerned. Such liberal war hawks have serious records of fighting for good domestic causes. But what a disconnect!...
The arithmetic is brutal. Each Tomahawk cruise missile fired from a sub, ship or land costs roughly $1m, and we've probably shot over 200 of them onto Libya, killing Gaddafi's military, paramilitary, civilians, hospital patients and – now we learn – our guys, the rebels, too. That's a $200m bill, straight off. The Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments estimates that the Libyan operation costs the US between $100m and $300m per week, so we're heading toward the $1bn mark even if, as advertised, we pull back marginally.
- Let the jobless or disabled poor freeze their asses off this and next winter.
We on the left often accuse our ideological adversaries of "triumphalism" – a know-nothing superstition that America is and always will be "different", superior to all other nations, creeds and peoples. If we do it, it's right and moral because, well, we're Americans and we mean terribly well.
And if you believe that, I have a UFO I want to sell you."
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8/30/11, "Libyans don't like people with dark skin, but some are innocent'," UK Independent, Patrick Cockburn"Any black African can expect arrest without proof he was not part of Gaddafi's forces. Patrick Cockburn reports from Tripoli"...
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The idea that Gadaffi always favored blacks turns out not to be true:
3/18/11, "Border Blues," Think Africa Press by Ben Judah, reporting from the Tunisia side of the Libya-Tunisia border
"“Libya bad for the black....” said a Malian arrival at the camp, “rebel chase us....Gadaffi chase us.”...Unconfirmed claims of tens of thousands of black Africans fleeing southwards into Niger and Chad have also been reported in the region."...
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3/25/11, "Mark Steyn: Do-gooders in a land with no good guys," Orange County Register
- of a very peculiar worldview:
"That's why building this international coalition has been so important," he said the other day.
- "It is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions
that are important not only to us, but are important internationally."
That's great news. Who doesn't enjoy volunteering other people?"...---------------------
Obama supports racist "rebels" driving blacks out of Libya. NY media sells adoration of Neo-Con Obama. Below, NY Daily News, 3/29/11, Obama being adored in NYC today, other NYC front pages follow.
(photos 2,3, and 5 above with Obama and halo)
Below, George Bush burned in effigy for going to war, Nov. 2004
Bush effigy via Zombietime.com
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More on "R2P," "Responsibility to Protect"
3/23/11, "After Libya Intervention, Some ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Advocates Want to Turn Spotlight on Israel," CNS News. by Patrick Goodenough
"As the United Nations-backed concept known as “responsibility to protect” enjoys renewed prominence because of the crisis in Libya, a critic of Israel has
- launched a fresh bid to make a case for outside intervention on behalf of the Palestinians.
Richard Falk, the U.N.’s “special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,” said in a report delivered to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that Israeli policies amount to “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity.”
Falk’s use of the terms was significant, as they are two of four specified criteria in “responsibility to protect,” the doctrine calling for international humanitarian intervention when diplomacy fails.
Although he did not use the phrase “responsibility to protect” in his report, Falk is a keen advocate of the concept, and has argued that no situation in the world is more applicable for intervention under the doctrine than that of the Gaza Strip."...
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