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2011-07-16 Africa North

HRW: LIBYAN REBELS RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-07-16 07:33|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Translation: Berber "rebels" are acting as Berber tribal levies have acted since there *were* Berbers. They're behaving in exactly the same fashion as their grandfathers and great-grandfathers did in Italy during WWII, and probably every other war which saw Berber light cavalry set loose in the proximity of anything not nailed down.

I'm just surprised HRW's not mentioning the rape. Give them time, I guess.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-07-16 08:12|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-07-16 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah Mitch, I think "rebels" are mostly Arabs.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-07-16 10:12|| 2011-07-16 10:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe HRW is figuring to cash in with Q-bucks. He could fully fund their ops for decades.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-16 10:26|| 2011-07-16 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 William Tecumseh Sherman is likely shaking his head.

Posted by Pappy 2011-07-16 13:16|| 2011-07-16 13:16|| Front Page Top

#5 If they want to look hard enough, HRW can find anybody guilty of human rights violations.
Keep those donations rolling in, rubes...

Posted by tu3031 2011-07-16 14:00|| 2011-07-16 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 "In other news, Carmelite Nuns have been accused by HRW of 'Ongoing Rights Violations®' for telling young people at their many youth homes to "eat your peas".

Film at 11 (10 Central)."

Posted by Mullah Richard 2011-07-16 17:04|| 2011-07-16 17:04|| Front Page Top

#7 In Jabal Naffousa (aka the Nafusa Mountains, central western Libya? I don't think so, grom, not unless all of the basic ethnographic data on the region available online is horseshit.

I don't know, maybe it is. I'm just a low-sloping forehead hick following along with the digital equivalent of a Baedekers and Google Map.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-07-16 18:29|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-07-16 18:29|| Front Page Top

#8 On intra-rebel ethnic tensions, this is interesting. There are separate Berber and Arab levies organized from distinct Arab and Berber towns - Zintan fielding an Arab militia, Yefren, Jadu and other Berber towns fielding their own units/mobs/whatever you want to call them.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-07-16 18:43|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-07-16 18:43|| Front Page Top

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