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| Libya Rebels Round Up Black Africans |
| 2011-09-04 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, imprisoning them in makeshift jails across the capital and accusing them of being mercenaries for Moammar Gadhafi. As the rebels and their Transitional National Council (TNC) struggle to maintain credibility in a post-Gadhafi Libya, they have been targeting black Africans for weeks now. The United Nations warned about mass arrests, beatings, and revenge-killings against the suspected mercenaries, and the African Union this week refused to recognize the TNC as the legitimate governing authority in Libya on the grounds that their treatment of the black Africans was a human rights violation. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #10 The AU supports a diverse, post-Gaddafi Govt. which includes allowing Black Africans - Muslims as well as minority non-Muslims, etc. - to hold political power, A CONCEPT WHICH HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN ANATHEMA TO LIBYA'S + ME'S RULING ARAB = NON-BLACK MUSLIM TRIBES + DYNASTIES. The good news for the Paleos = PA in the ME is that they are Muslim but not Black African. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-09-04 21:31 |
| #9 And I keep having scenarios run through my mind... maybe someone outside put them up to this, say, to keep Europe's immigration problems under control. OR maybe this is their way of telling the SCOAMF who's _really_ in charge. Or some combination of the two. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-04 20:02 |
| #8 Here's the article I was talking about: http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-rebels-round-black-africans-130723394.html |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-04 19:07 |
| #7 Given the lack of organization detailed in the yahoo piece linked by Drudge, I suspect real armed mercenaries would have been able to easily escape. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-04 18:59 |
| #6 I have my doubts about that description of the state of affairs. Especially given the descriptions I've read thus far of the situation. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-04 18:57 |
| #5 From what I've seen, the TNC and its people, who are not soldiers, mind you, have really bent over backwards to not injudiciously slaughter blacks. Given that both Arabs and Berbers look at blacks as somewhat lower than farm animals, this was no easy task. They have, however, caught a lot of black mercenaries with evidence on them, like one dumbass who took camera pics of his buddies committing war crimes. The future is not bright for these guys. For its part, NATO has been none to gentle with black mercenaries, either. That tugboat they sunk was transporting probably a hundred or more, who were quickly shark bait. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-09-04 14:16 |
| #4 Actually, like in Suadi Arabia it was Blacks who were doing most of the work in the country. Also, the MSM have been surpriosngly (tong in cheek) silent about pogroms, sadistic pogroms both of Blacks and of GHadhafi lyalists in the vein ofb thse perpetrated by the Islamists in Algeria, perpetrated by Obama's and Sarkozy's protegés. |
| Posted by: JFM 2011-09-04 10:49 |
| #3 Black People... why does Barack Obama hate 'em? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-04 10:07 |
| #2 Don't you mean the other way around, loud one? |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-09-04 07:47 |
| #1 Of course, the media was silent about Khadaffy's recruitment of black African mercenaries to kill his own people. The facts didn't fit the narrative, you know. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-09-04 06:49 |