NATO-backed rebel fighters gunned down 53 Libyans in cold
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Gruesome: Burnt out cars and bodies of Gadaffi bodyguards litter the area outside the Libyan coastal town of Sirte close to the drainage sewer from which Gadaffi was dragged alive
On the lawn of a hotel garden next to the Mediterranean, the blackening bodies of 53 people lay decomposing.
Some had their hands bound together, and bloodstains and spent rifle cartridges on the grass indicated they had been summarily executed where they fell.
It was a scene from hell, but perhaps most chilling was the realisation that these were not victims of Muammar Gaddafi’s brutality.
Rather they were, the evidence would suggest, victims of the ‘good guys’, the supposedly democratic new friends of the West who have been ushered into power by Britain, France and the U.S.
For the bloodbath was in Gaddafi’s stronghold of Sirte, and although the perpetrators are unknown, triumphalist graffiti on the walls of the hotel proclaimed the names of five Misrata-based fighting groups.
Arguably, they suffered the greatest losses, and possibly fought the most intense battles, during the bloody siege of Libya’s third-largest city when Gaddafi threw everything he had at crushing the revolution there.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch yesterday demanded an inquiry into the atrocity at the hotel, warning of a ‘trend of killings, looting and other abuses’ by those who triumphed over Gaddafi thanks only to the support of Britain’s armed forces and those of our allies.
Sirte residents have placed most of the bodies at the Mahari Hotel in bags and have been taking them away for burial.
They identified four of the dead as Ezzidin al-Hinsheri, allegedly a former Gaddafi government official, a military officer named Muftah Dabroun, and two Sirte residents, Amar Mahmoud Saleh and Muftah al-Deley.
The state of decomposition suggests the victims died at the same time, between October 14 and 19, says Human Rights Watch.
On the lawn of a hotel garden next to the Mediterranean, the blackening bodies of 53 people lay decomposing.
Some had their hands bound together, and bloodstains and spent rifle cartridges on the grass indicated they had been summarily executed where they fell.
It was a scene from hell, but perhaps most chilling was the realisation that these were not victims of Muammar Gaddafi’s brutality.
Rather they were, the evidence would suggest, victims of the ‘good guys’, the supposedly democratic new friends of the West who have been ushered into power by Britain, France and the U.S.
For the bloodbath was in Gaddafi’s stronghold of Sirte, and although the perpetrators are unknown, triumphalist graffiti on the walls of the hotel proclaimed the names of five Misrata-based fighting groups.
Arguably, they suffered the greatest losses, and possibly fought the most intense battles, during the bloody siege of Libya’s third-largest city when Gaddafi threw everything he had at crushing the revolution there.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch yesterday demanded an inquiry into the atrocity at the hotel, warning of a ‘trend of killings, looting and other abuses’ by those who triumphed over Gaddafi thanks only to the support of Britain’s armed forces and those of our allies.
Sirte residents have placed most of the bodies at the Mahari Hotel in bags and have been taking them away for burial.
They identified four of the dead as Ezzidin al-Hinsheri, allegedly a former Gaddafi government official, a military officer named Muftah Dabroun, and two Sirte residents, Amar Mahmoud Saleh and Muftah al-Deley.
The state of decomposition suggests the victims died at the same time, between October 14 and 19, says Human Rights Watch.
