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| HRW: LIBYAN REBELS RESPONSIBLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS |
| 2011-07-16 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Libyan rebels are responsible for arson, pillaging and abusing civilian populations during their march toward Tripoli in June. Some of these violations occurred, according to Human Rights Watch, cited by 'Al Quds Al Arabi' newspaper, last week when the rebels headed toward the Jabal Naffousa area, south of Tripoli. According to HRW, in the last month the rebels and their supporters caused significant material damage, lit homes on fire, pillaged hospitals, shops and homes in four cities in Jabal Naffousa. The newspaper claims these violations damage the image of the rebels, who wanted to be viewed as human rights champions. Said violations can raise embarrassing questions for NATO members who, on a UN resolution, support the rebels militarily to protects Libyan civilians. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #4 William Tecumseh Sherman is likely shaking his head. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-07-16 13:16 |
| #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 |
| #2 Ah Mitch, I think "rebels" are mostly Arabs. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-07-16 10:12 |
| #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 |