Posted on 03/31/2011 10:06:41 AM PDT by 11th_VA
ADDIS ABABA While much of the worlds 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 Gaddafis 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 oclock in the morning. They said get out, well 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.
I hope so. It might be hard to find a source to verify this.
Always more of an arab than a black.
>>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.<<
Get it straight. This is the side the bankers are backing.
There cannot be wars without bank support. You need money to fight a war. Convince the bankers that there’s money in it for them and they’ll let you fight until there’s only one man standing, then they’ll take him to court and the judge will order that he pay the banks.
you can’t say that.
I think it might be very difficult, unless Somaliland Press cooperates, possibly by revealing its sources, with Drudge. Would they be likely to do that?
They'll prbably report that all the pilots were White Males.
Drudge might have people skilled at shaking the information tree in various parts of the world.
And they hit a baby formula factory.
Funny thing about that Jamal, that's the way civilized folk feel about the muslims slaughtering black Christians in your homeland
Looks like the diabolic moon god you serve is serving you up.
Instant karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together.
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead.
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O’Reilly reminds me of Gordon Jump’s character on the Diff’rent Strokes episode where Dudley played Tarzan with Jump’s character the Bicycle Man. BOR just seems like a very creepy guy to me. I wouldn't trust him alone with my dog, let alone my kids.
Yeah, he lost a bunch of FR yesterday. Better now than in four years, though.
Not surprising; Qadaffi spent some time fancying himself as the leader of “Africa”. Many of his mercinaries are negroes from south of Libya. I think they’ll find that Islam will turn them into slaves quite quickly now that the tide of battle has turned. How conflicted Emperor Hussein must be, between his half black father and his Muslim upbringing...
That’s possible. It seems that he travels extensively.
Gee, maybe they should have stayed in their own country.
I wonder if any of them are from Kenya. If so, expect us to pull our support for the “rebels” asap.
I wonder how Eric Holder feels about sending arms and munitions to gangs that are killing “my people.”
Anyway, who even knows if the story is true. The broad dishonesty of their African “son” from Kenya does not lend credibility to anything these “victims” have to say.
Yeah. It kind of reminds me of back in the day when black African tribes rounded up other black Africans and sold them into slavery. Oh wait. They’re still doing that in some places in Africa. They just don’t export them off the continent anymore. I guess obathturd doesn’t really care much about his and Holder’s “people.”
Hmmmm......maybe the muzzies know something we don’t.
Arabs hate blacks...nothing new under the sun.*** I never knew this stuff - more reasons to stay out of a civil war ... ***
'Arabs' are the biggest Slave Takers and Traders of Black Africans in World History. Yet the STOO-PID™ blacks here become Muslims and take Arab names, embracing the very people that hates their guts.
oscumwad would not be the first black to ethnically cleanse his own ethnicity.
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