Libya: Apparent Execution Of 53 Gaddafi Supporters

Human Rights Watch:

(Sirte) -- Fifty-three people, apparent Gaddafi supporters, seem to have been executed at a hotel in Sirte last week, Human Rights Watch said today. The hotel is in an area of the city that was under the control of anti-Gaddafi fighters from Misrata before the killings took place.

Read the whole story: Human Rights Watch

Comments

[Alexey Braguine]

07:37 AM on 10/25/2011

This is just the beginning.
At the moment there is a loud chorus of people shouting and acusing Ghadaffi of brutality and atrocities. Maybe I am missing something. Where is the evidence?

This massacre IS evidence, we are going to see a lot more of it and the true colors of this rebellion.
As the high standard of living and prosperity Libyans enjoyed under Ghadaffi plumets we will see interesting developments.

[Always Conservative]

09:53 PM on 10/24/2011

The religion of peace strikes again....

[Catothemuchyounger]

08:45 PM on 10/24/2011

Lots of people with serious scores to settle. Of course, the relatives of those killed will now also have scores to settle . . .

[Shomali]

08:37 PM on 10/24/2011

Gaddafi was a dictator, but by no means he killed even close to the number of people the Algerian government killed while fighting the Al Qaeda supported groups, in their respective countries. The Algerians ended up with no uprising. The people who Gaddafi didn't kill rose up in armed struggle and killed him and his supporters with the help of NATO. The number of people being killed by the gang in control is rising daily. The people in Tripoli are scared, this war will have a second phase when no one is paying attention. Libya could turn into another Somalia.

[Shomali]

08:31 PM on 10/24/2011

Barbarian have taken control.

[NeverBendover]

08:27 PM on 10/24/2011

People who look at the faction fight in Libya as a fight between "good" and "evil" should pause to think about it. Can people who follow the same tactics as Gaddafi be "good"? Can people who tie people up and shoot them in the head execution style be " good"?

[SeattlePepe]

06:14 PM on 10/24/2011

Sometimes, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't. What have we unleashed with the Spring uprisings.

[NeverBendover]

08:29 PM on 10/24/2011

An appropriate question but I am afraid our leaders are not asking themselves this question. Short term business interests cloud their mind.

[SeattlePepe]

11:55 PM on 10/24/2011

Agree, but not sure it's business. So many of them are already wealthy, which is okay with me. It's the desire for more power that is concerning. I was (am) a Bush supporter but was disappointed in his final years. Did not vote for Obama but was hopeful that things would change. The did, for the worse I believe. Our leaders have gotten so power hungry we've decided than nearly any change is good change. As we're potentially seeing, disruptive change can be tricky...but hopefully not deadly.

[Caymus77]

04:00 PM on 10/24/2011

Massacres are a byproduct of Gaddafi's brutal regime that has murdered it's own people for decades. When Gaddafi turned his mercenary army loose on peaceful protesters, gunning them down in cold blood and then having snipers kill everybody daring to step into the street;he paved the way for uncontrollable violence to be committed on his supporters.

[songoftherushes]

11:23 PM on 10/24/2011

One of the most powerful false allegations against the government was the murderous false rumour spread by racist defector Ali Abd-al-Aziz al-Isawi, Al Jazeera, Al Arabia, Press TV, anonymous social media accounts and most western mass media that the government used „African merceneries“ to crush the uprising. When human rights watch later send Peter Bouckaert to speak with black people arested by „rebels“ as mercenaries and investigate the claim, he found no evidence for the „rebels“ allegation, that the government used merceneries at all. Instead he found out, that all 156 captured black people captured by „rebels“ and presented to him as black mercenaries, were in fact regular Libyan soldiers coming from the south of Libya, were most people are black.

http://nocheinparteibuch.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/hidden-behind-propaganda-a-giant-crime-against-libya-is-fact-part-i/

[Mollyj]

02:23 PM on 10/24/2011

Everything is fair in love or WAR! War In this case. My rule of war engagement shall be "Kill All The Enemies"

Let's keep it simple

[Shomali]

08:31 PM on 10/24/2011

Then you will be attacked by NATO.

[caprawalie]

02:09 PM on 10/24/2011

One reads in this columns well this is war! But this is a war to replace a horrible government and a dictator with a government that observes the rule of law right from the beggining... but if these are the pople who will be running Libya in the future woe to that country... on wonders what other crimes have been perpatrated by these so called revolutionaries..rapes, beatings, mutilations etc.. the western media is not iterested as long as they believe another oil source has been identified.

[omobob]

12:49 PM on 10/24/2011

> Fifty-three people, apparent Gaddafi supporters, seem to have been executed at a hotel in Sirte last week, Human Rights Watch said today.

Violence begets violence. MLK. The rebels have taken a page from the Gaddafi play book and are starting a New Libya using the old ways?

[Original Intent]

12:27 PM on 10/24/2011

Making the Ghost of Ghadaffi proud.

[ber6965]

12:14 PM on 10/24/2011

So?? It was a war, they were asked to surrender, they choose to keep fighting with that madman!!!

[myopinion2]

11:52 AM on 10/24/2011

I hope we aren't going to see comments expressing shock or outrage that this happened. Hellow. This is war. It's not like in the movies.

[ruolivert]

12:18 PM on 10/24/2011

I'm outraged that my country backed a group of people who would do this. This war was fought to protect people and now we see that its not all people just people who agree with the rebels, anyone else doesn't deserve to live

[Caymus77]

04:03 PM on 10/24/2011

That group of people was VERY large and to expect total control in the midst of chaos is naive.

[omobob]

12:53 PM on 10/24/2011

> I hope we aren't going to see comments expressing shock or outrage that this happened.

Marginalizing the murder of 53 Libyans does not excuse the crime. The US hung Germans and Japanese for war crimes so let us not pretend that war is another excuse or a cover up for murder and assassination.

[myopinion2]

01:23 PM on 10/24/2011

I agree is unacceptable and should be persecuted when discovered. But this is not unique. In happens in most wars I believe.

[Aeons]

11:50 AM on 10/24/2011

Apparently on the mass grave site of Ghaddaffi's with about a thousand bodies in it (not 50,000 as originally reported) the "freedom fighters" started dumping bodies on the site. They were upto about 800 bodies.

Irony. How long did Ghaddafi have to make that mass grave? Forty years? The "freedom fighters" can apparently outdo him in under six months.

[omobob]

12:54 PM on 10/24/2011

Well observed. Well said. faved. cheers

[KIVPossum]

01:52 PM on 10/24/2011

Thank you for pointing that out to people