The International
Herald Tribune
U.N. criticizes
inquiry of NATO raids in Libya
NEIL MACFARQUHAR, March
5, 2012 Monday
NATO has not
sufficiently investigated the air raids it conducted on Libya that killed at
least 60 civilians and wounded 55 more during the conflict there, according to
a new United Nations report.
Nor has Libya's
interim government done enough to halt the disturbing violence perpetrated by
revolutionary mili-tias seeking to exact revenge on loyalists, real or
perceived, to the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the report concluded.
Published without
publicity Friday on the Web site of the U.N. Human Rights Council, based in
Geneva, the report details the results of an investigation by a three-member
commission of distinguished jurists. It paints a generally gloo-my picture of
the level of respect for human rights and international law in Libya, while
acknowledging that the prob-lem is a legacy of the long years of violent
repression under Colonel Qaddafi.
The commission members
tried to ascertain how Colonel Qaddafi had died, but said the Libyan
authorities did not give them access to the autopsy report, so further
investigation was needed. Graphic videos of his last day alive on Oct. 20
suggest that the revolutionaries who captured him near his tribal hometown,
Surt, beat him and executed him with gunfire.
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A HRC 19 68 Libya Report
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