The human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
group says the humanitarian situation is rapidly deteriorating there because of the regime's attempts to tighten its two-month siege and block access by sea.
Amnesty's senior adviser Donatella Rovera says Qadaffy's forces have used weapons designed for battlefields in residential areas and have indiscriminately attacked civilians in clear breach of international law.
"The scale of the relentless attacks that we have seen by Qadaffy forces to intimidate the residents of Misratah for more than two months is truly horrifying," said Rovera.
"It shows a total disregard for the lives of ordinary people and is in clear breach of international humanitarian law," she added.
"The international community must give all possible support -- financial, legal and practical -- to those bodies trying to bring to justice those responsible for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Misratah and elsewhere in Libya."
On Wednesday, the chief prosecutor at the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
said he will seek arrest warrants against three Libyans for crimes against humanity.
Libyan troops have also killed thousands of civilians since the revolution against Colonel Qadaffy began in mid-February.
Many civilians have also been killed since the Western-led war on Libya began last month.
NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
has recently admitted to killing revolutionary fighters and civilians in an