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.
Note and remember that Rubio supported this as well.
He will be the domestic NWO’s synthetic Tea Party imitation during the next several years. A cat’s paw for the neo-con globalist bunch.
Remember it.
But Ted Baxter is looking out for the folks. HE IS LOOKING OUT FOR THE FOLKS MAN! I mean come on. He is really looking out for the folks.
this is the side we are backing, right?
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Yes. The side we are backing is accused of this.
There is no clean side here.
Correction:
This is the side we WERE backing, up until Obama reads this article. The bombs are going to start dropping from West to East tomorrow!!
This war is another example where the MSM is not buying Obama’s stories, not a good situation for him.
His liberal allies set the stage for this. Since the Iraq war turned unpopular ~ 2005-2006 liberals have repeated over and over that the MSM was NOT critical enough during the Iraq war runup. Now the MSM is critical of this third war (Obama’s war) just like they wanted and the liberals themselves are split on if they like it. Some are loyal to Obama impressed that he went to the US, others are alarmed that he may have started another endless war with no real plan to come to closure.
If it’s not on CNN then it didn’t happen. /S>
I crossed Rubio off after I heard him calling for support of Dear Leader in this Libya folly.
Don’t worry. I will.
Still whitey’s fault.
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This story just keeps getting more and more surreal.
kinda like that parallel universe i seem to be in.
Obama hates Black people?
One of the social policies that Qaddafi implemented after his coup was enhance the plight of the African residents of the Maghreb.
Now the Arab traditionalists, rebels, jihadis aided by the woefully ignorant and pliable propaganda corps, are doing their version of anger management.
Well, this is now Obama’s War. It’s looking like a doozy of karmic payback for the One.
I doubt even Fox shows anything of rebel atrocities since there aren’t any. /s
That’s it!
Sent story to Drudge. If he picks it up, prepare to see the fecal hit the rotating device.
I hear you. :)
Qaddafi isn’t a stupid man. This could be a planted story.
I’m not saying it is one way or the other. The possibility exists.
Good point. You sent the story to Drudge? What will he do, work to verify it first?
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