Report: Libya rebels may be guilty of war crimes

[cory777]

Source: Associated Press

BRUSSELS - Rebels fighting to topple Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi committed unlawful killings and torture, Amnesty International said in a report released on Tuesday.

The 100-plus page report, based on three months of investigation in Libya, draws no equivalency between the crimes of Qaddafi loyalists and those of the former rebels, who now hold power in Tripoli: The Qaddafi forces' crimes were greater, the list of them is longer, and they may have amounted to crimes against humanity, the report said.

But it said the crimes of the rebels were not insignificant.

"Members and supporters of the opposition, loosely structured under the leadership of the National Transitional Council (NTC) ... have also committed human rights abuses, in some cases amounting to war crimes, albeit on a smaller scale," the Amnesty report said.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/12/501364/main20105154.shtml

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[TheWraith]

1. AI doesn't draw an equivalency, so Associated Press does it for them. nt

[No Elephants]

3. Did the AP really say the two forces were equal? I must have missed that.

Seemed as though AP was summarizing the Amnesty International Report.

[TheWraith]

5. No, they're highlighting the rebels, and giving just enough context so they're not technically lying

Meanwhile, the headline blares an uncontested context-free version.

[No Elephants]

11. I did not see the highlighting that you claim. Article specifies that report found Gaddafi forces

were worse.

As far as the headline, yes, they could have added "too."

The context, however, is that atrocities by the Gaddafi family and Gaddafi forces have been all over the news for years, and more so during the rebellion. The "news" part of the Amnesty International report, therefore, is that AI found the rebels engaged in atrocities, too.

[MrSlayer]

2. It's war.

In a war both sides usually commit "war crimes", the difference is that the winners customarily get immunity. War is the crime.

[No Elephants]

4. I'm not at all sure that war crimes are usual. However, we should be crying out for war crimes to

be punished, no matter which side commits them.

And that is where we have fallen down. If crimes are usually not punished, they tend to proliferate.

[L. Coyote]

6. But, it is O.K. for NATO to bomb Tripoli!

Go figure??

[EFerrari]

7. They're humanitarian bombs of democracy..

[L. Coyote]

10. Sometimes you have to kill people to save some ....

money and steal some oil!

[Romulox]

9. Ghadaffi has been reclassified from "CIA asset" to "Evil Doer"!

:wow:

[No Elephants]

12. LOL! Also, OUCH!

[Romulox]

8. NO! This war for oil was supposed to be different!

:rofl: