Posted on 03/31/2011 10:06:41 AM PDT by 11th_VA
ADDIS ABABA — While much of the world’s attention is focusing on crude oil prices and the Libyan pipelines in the east of the country– human right groups say rebels are committing crimes against humanity.
In east Libya, African hunt began as towns and cities began fall under the control of Libyan rebels, mobs and gangs. They started to detain, insult, rape and even executing black immigrants, students and refugees.
In the past two weeks, more than 100 Africans from various Sub-Sahara states are believed to have been killed by Libyan rebels and their supporters.
According to Somali refugees in Libya, at least five Somalis from Somaliland and Somalia were executed in Tripoli and Benghazi by anti-Gaddafi mobs. Dozens of refugees and immigrants workers from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, Mali and Niger have been killed, some of them were led into the desert and stabbed to death. Black Libyan men receiving medical care in hospitals in Benghazi were reportedly abducted by armed rebels. They are part of more than 200 African immigrants held in secret locations by the rebels.
In many disputes involving Libyan residents and black Africans, the Libyans are turning in the Africans as mercenaries.
Thousands more Africans caught up in this mercenary hysteria are terrified. Some barricaded themselves in their homes, while others hid in the desert. Insulted, threatened, beaten, chased and robbed. Their only crime was being black and therefore treated as “mercenaries” of Gaddafi.
While the airing of Gaddafi’s so called “black mercenaries” by Western media has ignited the issue, some say an xenophobic attitude towards these refugees and labourers has existed for years. They say the current attacks are racially motivated because the rebels have released many actual Libyan mercenaries and soldiers under a tribal agreement. They believe many Arabs felt their Libyan leader was abandoning them for black Africans ever since he became a “pan-Africanist”. Many immigrants were regularly victims of racism.
In many situations, Gaddafi and his inner circle preferred black Africans and Libyans from the south over Libyans from the east. Now the angry mobs using the revolutionary movement across Arabia and North Africa are hunting down black people.
Mohamed Abdillahi, Somaliland, 25, was sleeping at his home in Zouara, when the mobs arrived. “They knocked on the door around 1 o’clock in the morning. They said get out, we’ll kill you, you are blacks, foreigners, clear.”
The testimonials and are very similar among the thousands of Africans that saw the ugly side of Libya in the past weeks. “They have attacked us, they took everything from us,” said Ali Farah, Somali labourer 29 years.
“They wanted to kill civilians, they beat many of us. To me, they are animals,” says Jamal Hussein, 25 years Sudanese worker.
Many of the fleeing Africans are terrified to tell their stories. At the checkpoint, they do not mingle with others. When asked about their ordeal, they just freeze, “they stopped us many times and said not tell what has happened here, say there are no problems,” Elias Nour from Ethiopia said.
“For the past seven days, my whole family has been holed up at home without any food, running water or electricity, we appeal for urgent intervention,” Mohamed Abdi from Somaliland told local reporters by cellphone.
In the latest reports reaching Somalilandpress from Tripoli, forces loyal to Col. Muammar Gaddafi have reportedly began kidnapping African and Libyan youths from their homes and universities. They are said to be preparing them for a showdown against the rebels. The kidnapped youths include five teenagers from Somaliland.
Many Africans have virtually nothing after years in Libya, many have been looted, robbed, while others saw their living quarters and apartments go in flames. Now they are praying to God to send them home.
While the international leaders are busy drafting resolutions to dismantle Muammar Gaddafi, the African Union has not yet commented on the situation in Libya.
Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court is said to have started a formal inquiry into possible crimes against humanity in Libya that will investigate the Libyan regime.
the NATO countries that he convinced to go in with him are now in disarray - in a quandary as to what to do now that the truth is coming out and that ‘obummer has gone far beyond what the mandate he got for a ‘no fly’. (No fly does not include bombs on the ground nor arming one side.)
NATO countries are caught between a rock and a hard place - and so they dither: So they admit they were duped and pull out or do they stay quiet and let obummer continue his illegal actions? And if they do allow that, and everything blows up down the line as the truth about the ‘rebels’ comes out - won't THAT go back on the NATO countries and leaders - who ‘bummer is trying to set up as fall guys anyway. “I turned it over to NATO” - as he continues to do as he pleases, against the wishes of NATO countries.
Muslims have always hated darker skinned persons. Read the Hadith. Which is why I think Elijah Muhammad, et al, are so hilarious. Women, gays and blacks would be the first on the chopping block.
A breakout of the hometowns of Libyan jihadists who showed up in Iraq:
Note that the 84% of the jihadists came from Darnah and Benghazi, both rebel strongholds that were (as pointed out in the West Point study) previously the scene of Islamist uprisings in the mid-1990's.
Mike
AQ rebels are targeting them and Western propaganda depict them as "African mercenaries" in Daffy's army.
MSM is an accomplice.
Now that you posted it here, it should get some play.
I try and post articles from diverse sources ...
I always like to point out to my African American friends that the upcoming Caliphate will not be kind to them. This is a culture that historically has always regarded Africans as slaves.
The word that this Somaliland Press writer is looking for is "drafting" or "conscripting", not "kidnapping".
email to Drudge, Rush, Hannity - NOT O’Reilly! he'd probably not allow it on FOX -
http://drudgereport.com/ (scroll down to ‘tips’ box.
The media has a formula - they run stories AFTER they get X amount of emails on it AND NO mass emails are read - post each to each separately.
Let's git ‘er done....
Obama’s hands are dripping with blood.
Obama and his crew are now responsible for REAL “genocide” not imaginary, in Libya, and the victims are black Africans.
Of course they will not care, because they are racists.
Looks like our media once again has blood dripping from its hands as well.
"The nigger sheriff is hunting down the black people" said malik zulu shabazz.
I thought that the rebels were the good guys....Wait a minute, it was the media and their apoligists on this forum that said that the rebels were the good guys. most of them who left jobs killing our troops in Iraq and Afganistan to come to Libya. They went from killers of our troops to the heroes to a good number of those on this forum, who refer to them as “freedom fighters” and the current occupier of the White House and his minions.But to the occupier of the White House and his minions, killers of our troops have always been their heroes and his minions include the main stream media.
this is the side we are backing, right?
That is a very interesting graph.
Obama’s hands are dripping with blood.
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That was true as a state senator in Illinois, given his long and determined opposition to BAIPA. Everything he has ever done is consistent with the passive aggressive malice he showed there. Even his economic policies reflect this.
LOL.
I saw the headline and immediately thought of the Justice Brothers too.
Great minds think alike.
What are a few hundred murders here and there. Give them a chance. /s
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