Libyan Prison Massacre 1996

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  1. Margot

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    There's a video at the link...

    http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/25/world/africa/libya-mass-grave/

    Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A mass grave thought to hold the remains of more than 1,200 victims of a 1996 massacre at Abu Salim prison has been found in Tripoli, officials with Libya's transitional government said Sunday.

    The suspected grave holds 1,270 bodies, according to Libya's National Transitional Council. It was located by revolutionaries on August 20, said Kamal el Sherif, a member of an NTC committee.

    "There is a lot more to be done to reach the actual truth of this massacre," said Dr. Salem Fergani, also a committee member. "To be honest, we were not prepared to deal with such human massacres, so we request the assistance of the international community. We need specialists in the field to help us in identifying the victims ... this is a national mission. The families of these victims have the right to learn the truth about their deceased sons."

    Former guards at the prison cooperated in helping find the grave and provide details of the massacre, said Abdul Wahab Gady. He said he is a former prisoner who was at Abu Salim when the deaths took place.

    The bones are scattered around an area with about a 100-meter radius, Fergani said. Members of the media were taken to the site on Sunday and shown bones and clothing. Family members of the Abu Salim victims also turned up at the site.

    On June 28, 1996, prisoners rioting over poor conditions and restricted family visits seized a guard and escaped from their cells.

    "Five or seven minutes after it started, the guards on the roofs shot at the prisoners who were in the open areas," former prisoner Hussein Shafei told Human Rights Watch in an interview years later.

    Security officials ordered the shooting to stop and feigned negotiations, he told the organization. But officials instead called in firing squads to gun down the prisoners.

    After the inmates agreed to return to their cells, they were taken to prison outdoor areas, blindfolded, handcuffed, and shot.

    At first, said Gady, the bodies were buried inside the prison walls, but moved outside the walls in 1999.

    The government of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi did not acknowledge the killings and denied any crime had taken place. Some families filed a complaint against the government in 2007, Human Rights Watch said, and Gadhafi's government offered them compensation in exchange for their silence.

    The families refused, calling it a bribe, and instead began holding protests each Saturday in Benghazi, one of the spots where the Libyan unrest began this year.

    It could take years to identify all the bodies through DNA, Fergani said Sunday.
     
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    I doubt that you're going to find much sympathy for them in here. One terrorist ******* gets chased out of his own country, while ten thousand other terrorist *******s take his place. Al Qaeda assisted these "revolutionaries", and Obama wants to call them our friends? Obama can join the rest of his Al Qaeda buddies and hump camels for the rest of his life. :bored:
     
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    The just found the graves from the 1996 prison massacre.

     
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    Gee, that's really tough (*)(*)(*)(*)........... for them. 1200 less Mohammedan would be terrorist. I'll light a candle over my pulled pork sandwich. :wink:
     
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    I don't understand the purpose of your post? Are you justifying our involvement in Libya? If so then you must support what we did in Iraq.
     
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    Its from today's news on Libya...
     
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    com e on panama
    http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-27/news/mn-2882_1_mass-grave
    veitnam we did the same yes we call it war , libya was at war to with rebals for years problay finance by bankers from europe or the cia they had to put down a rebelllion or 2
     
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    You didn't answer the question. Do you support what we did by liberating Iraq or not?
     
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    Undoubtedly that's why this thread was started. You said exactly what I was thinking here. Unfortunately, you're never going to convince her of the blatant hypocrisy. She's on the Obama team, not the Bush team; not realizing that Obama and Bush are on the same team.
     

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