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Torture in Libya: The ugly reality of imperialist “liberation”

1 February 2012

Multiple reports of widespread torture in the detention centers run by the new imperialist-backed Libyan regime and NATO’s “rebels” give the lie to all those who justified last year’s war in the name of human rights and “liberation.”

It is just over 100 days since the lynch-mob murder of Libya’s former ruler Muammar Gaddafi, a grisly act that marked the culmination of the eight-month US-NATO war. At the time, President Barack Obama took to the White House Rose Garden to hail the assassination as the advent of “a new and democratic Libya.”

The evidence and testimony provided by aid groups and human rights organizations over the past week paint a very different picture. A criminal imperialist war that ended with a brutal murder has, unsurprisingly, yielded a regime of terror, torture and repression.

According to a report released by Amnesty International (AI), “torture is being carried out by officially recognized military and security entities as well as by a multitude of armed militias operating outside of any legal framework.”

The organization reported numerous cases of detainees having been tortured to death. It also reported meeting with others who bore “visible marks indicating torture in recent days and weeks.” AI continued: “Their injuries included open wounds on the head, limbs, back and other parts of the body.”

Prisoners are “suspended in contorted positions, beaten for hours with whips, cables, plastic hoses, metal chains and bars and wooden sticks, and given electric shocks with live wires and Taser-like electro-shock weapons,” according to the Amnesty report. A spokesperson for the organization described the failure of the US- and NATO-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) to conduct any investigation, much less take any action against the torture, as “horrifying.”

Amnesty’s findings were corroborated by UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, who told the Security Council recently that torture is widespread. “There’s torture, extrajudicial executions, rape of both men and women,” she said.

Pillay expressed special concern for the fate of sub-Saharan African immigrants and black Libyans, who have been rounded up by militias as suspected Gaddafi supporters solely because of the color of their skin.

The medical aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders—MSF) has pulled its volunteers out of detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata because they were asked to treat torture victims solely for the purpose of making them fit to endure yet another interrogation session. “Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions,” said the group’s general director, Christopher Stokes. He added that MSF repeatedly raised the issue with Libyan authorities, but no action was taken.

The brutality and torture meted out by the “rebels” who were brought to power by NATO bombings and special forces “advisers” provoked an uprising last month in the town of Bani Walid, where citizens took up arms to free prisoners and drive out the militia stationed there by the NTC.

All of these developments have been studiously ignored by the coterie of “left” organizations and liberal academics and journalists who played such a critical role in promoting and justifying the US-NATO war for regime-change in Libya.

Less than a year ago, they warned of a supposedly imminent massacre in Benghazi, decried the repression of the Gaddafi regime, and invoked the doctrine of “responsibility to protect” civilians as grounds for a military intervention by the imperialist powers in the former colonial country.

Academic scoundrels like Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, who traded on his inflated reputation as a critic of the Iraq war to sell the war in Libya, as well as pseudo-left groups ranging from the New Anti-Capitalist Party in France to the Left Party in Germany and the International Socialist Organization in the US all provided a critical service to imperialism, supporting the pro-imperialist “rebel” leaders and helping to dress up a naked intervention for oil and geo-strategic interests as a crusade to protect civilians and promote democracy and human rights.

That these pseudo-lefts and liberals can now turn a blind eye toward—and provide a cover for—torture in Libya has an unmistakable significance. This socio-political layer has moved decisively into the camp of imperialism.

Their politics reflect the interests of better-off sections of the middle class. Under conditions of unprecedented social polarization, which has been intensified by the global capitalist crisis, they are coalescing around their respective ruling elites and are prepared to defend whatever methods are required to defend their rule. Libya stands as a warning. If this layer and these organizations countenance repression and torture to uphold the interests of imperialism abroad, they will not shrink from backing similar methods in confronting the working class at home.

Bill Van Auken. Source: www.wsws.org (world socialist web site)

MMarekani nia ilikua ni mafuta hamna lolote,marais wa Africa wajifunze,tunarudi kwenye ukoloni,wataingia nnchi zote kwa gia hizo hizo

K-killer said:

MMarekani nia ilikua ni mafuta hamna lolote,marais wa Africa wajifunze,tunarudi kwenye ukoloni,wataingia nnchi zote kwa gia hizo hizo

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Kwa maelezo zaidi juu ya nia ya marekani soma makala hapo chini....Ila kwa ufupi kwa mujibu wa makala hiyo chini, ni kuwa uchumi wa Marekani kiini chake cha uimara kimo katika matumizi ya pesa yake ya dola katika masoko ya fedha duniani na hasa matumizi yake katika ununuzi wa mafuta ulimwenguni.

OPEC inalazimika kutumia pesa ya dola katika kuuza mafuta yake. vichapo vyote vilivyo shinikizwa na marekani kwa nchi za iraki, Libya na sasa irani vimelenga kuzilazimisha nchi hizo kuacha mpago wao wa kutaka kutumia fedha mbadala katika biahashara ya mafuta. sababu za kuwa inchi hizo zina mipango ya nyuklia ni pretex tu ya kuzihujumu nchi hizo kivita.



Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms

Kuna mtu anaekumbuka zile frozen assets za Libya zilikuwa na thamani ya billioni ngapi?

Billioni 160 au 200. Hizi zimeishia wapi?

Libya's government will post a budget deficit of $10 billion this year as it struggles to pay public workers' salaries and meet energy costs, the head of the country's National Transitional Council (NTC) said in remarks published on Thursday.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil told French daily newspaper Le Figaro the country had still only recovered a fraction of the $100 billion in assets frozen overseas during the country's bitter civil war.

Zaidi hapa Libya sees $10 bln budget deficit in 2012- paper | News by Country | Reuters

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Thursday it had rejected a request by former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's daughter to submit information in the case of her brother, who is awaiting trial in Libya on rape and murder charges.

Zaidi hapa ICC rejects Gaddafi daughter's appeal on jailed brother | Top News | Reuters

Nonda said:

Kuna mtu anaekumbuka zile frozen assets za Libya zilikuwa na thamani ya billioni ngapi?

Billioni 160 au 200. Hizi zimeishia wapi?

Libya's government will post a budget deficit of $10 billion this year as it struggles to pay public workers' salaries and meet energy costs, the head of the country's National Transitional Council (NTC) said in remarks published on Thursday.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil told French daily newspaper Le Figaro the country had still only recovered a fraction of the $100 billion in assets frozen overseas during the country's bitter civil war.

Zaidi hapa Libya sees $10 bln budget deficit in 2012- paper | News by Country | Reuters

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wameyataka mkuu.
Kipindi kile tulisema tukaonekana vichaa, wanam-miss Kanali eh?
Halafu unakuta miafrika bado inamshobokea Jaluo...
Dah?

Mphamvu said:

wameyataka mkuu.
Kipindi kile tulisema tukaonekana vichaa, wanam-miss Kanali eh?
Halafu unakuta miafrika bado inamshobokea Jaluo...
Dah?

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Ndg unafikir jaluo ana sya katika hili............yeye mwenyewe ni mtazamaji tu............zile familia 9 ama ile asilimia moja watu wa US waliyokuwa wakiipigia kelele ndiyo inayocheza mchezo wote na kupanga ushindi! Jaluo ni kibendera tu

Masikini_Jeuri said:

Ndg unafikir jaluo ana sya katika hili............yeye mwenyewe ni mtazamaji tu............zile familia 9 ama ile asilimia moja watu wa US waliyokuwa wakiipigia kelele ndiyo inayocheza mchezo wote na kupanga ushindi! Jaluo ni kibendera tu

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dah?
Sasa mbona kwenye uvamizi wa Irak hakukuwa na hizi habari za familia 9 wala 1% ya Wamarekani.
Wote kwa umoja wetu tulimuelekezea lawama Bush na chama kubwa, The Republican.
Sasa kwanini uvamizi wa Libya, mweusi mwenzetu anakwepeshwa lawama kimakusudi, kwani katika miaka 8 ambayo Bill Clinton alikaa ikulu hizo familia 9 hazikutamani Afghan na Iraq zivamiwe? Lakini Bill akatolerate mpaka akamaliza kipindi chake salama bila mawaa, mashambulio ya Agosti 7 yalitokea wakati Bill akiwa White House, remember?
Kilikuwa ni kisingizio tosha cha kuvamia Afghan kwa kisingizio cha kusaka Al-Qaeda, lakini Bill akawa mvumilivu despite pressure ya kutoka Senate na Jumba la Wawakilishi.
Kwenye suala la Libya, hatuwezi kumkwepeshea Owbamer lawama mkuu. Unakumbuka ile speech yake wakati mapambano yamekolea?
He unveiled his true spirit over his mamaland, asitafutwe mchawi kwenye hili.
Mchawi ni Jaluo, kuendelea kumuunga mkono kwa jambo lolote ni kudhihirisha unafiki wetu dhidi ya Walibya, ambao ni ndugu zetu!

Ilikuwepo hii habari

* Libya urges Niger to extradite Saadi
* Saadi warned of "coming uprising" in phone interview
* Niger refuses extradition, cites death penalty risk

Zaidi hapa UPDATE 3-Libya wants Gaddafi son extradited, Niger balks | News by Country | Reuters

Niger wamekataa ombi/matakwa ya NTC kumkabidhi Saadi. Kilichotokea ni kumfukuza Balozi wa Niger kutoka Libya. Ona NTC wanavyofanya uhuni wao katika hii video.


Jisomee zaidi hapa Libya S.O.S.: Report Libya 12. February 2012.

Nadhani Niger wameamua kutoshirikiana na hao NTC, na ndiyo maana Saad ana confindence, hao NTC hawana muda.Kama hawakai vyema na majirani waafrika wenzao, basi lets wait and see how they're going to achieve peace.

Angalia hii kuanzia dakika ya 14:40 ....... Na aliye mweledi wa hii lugha atuhabarishe na sisi. Huyu dada anachokisema nini?.

jmushi1 said:

Nadhani Niger wameamua kutoshirikiana na hao NTC, na ndiyo maana Saad ana confindence, hao NTC hawana muda.Kama hawakai vyema na majirani waafrika wenzao, basi lets wait and see how they're going to achieve peace.

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Haya mahojiano ndio yameleta kizaa zaa cha Balozi wa Niger kufukuzwa Libya.


Tafsiri ya majadiliano imewekwa hapa Lizzie Phelan: FULL TRANSLATION: SAADI GADDAFI PHONE CALL TO AL ARABIYA

watamkumbuka Gaddafi mara 200, bora nusu shari kuliko shari zima. pole yao.

Rival Libyan militias fight gunbattle in capital



By Oliver Holmes
TRIPOLI | Wed Feb 1, 2012 3:15pm EST

Reuters) - Rival militias fought a two-hour gunbattle over a luxury beach house being used as a barracks in the Libyan capital Wednesday, underscoring how volatile the country is following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.


A Reuters reporter heard exchanges of both heavy and light weapons coming from the Tripoli district of El-Saadi beach, a stretch of Mediterranean coast overlooked by office skyscrapers and the Marriott Hotel.

Militias have carved up Tripoli and the rest of Libya into competing fiefdoms, each holding out for the share of power they say they are owed.

A witness, who had been relaxing on the beach with his family, told a local television channel fighters armed with anti-aircraft guns screeched along the coastal highway and stormed a walled residence.

"It was chaos, the fighters suddenly arrived in cars and started shooting at the house. Families fled from the beach," Abdul Musharim told the Libyan news channel 'Libya'.

A militia from Misrata, that arrived in Tripoli during the civil war last year, had been using the house as a barracks. It used to be owned by Gaddafi's son Saadi, a businessman and former professional footballer who is in Niger after escaping across the border when National Transitional Council (NTC) forces captured Tripoli in August.
A member of the NTC's High Security Committee said the fighting was between militiamen from Misrata and units from Zintan. Both groups fought to oust Gaddafi.

"We are not sure what the fighting was about but government forces have surrounded the area and it is calm now," the official said on condition of anonymity.

Black smoke rose from the beach house Wednesday and armed men who said they were working for the Interior Ministry circled the building and warned journalists their cameras would be smashed if they did not leave the area.

The NTC is struggling to impose its authority on the country and form a functioning national police force and army.
"There is nothing going on here, it is safe" an irate man told Reuters as gunfire erupted behind him.

In the chaos, men could be seen running along the beach carrying crates of ammunition taken from the house.
Several militias from outside the capital have set up bases in Tripoli. They clash intermittently often because of disputes over who controls which neighborhoods of the city.

The violence Wednesday was the first time in weeks that a major gunbattle had broken out in the center of the capital.
(Additional reporting by Ali Shuabi and Taha Zargoun; Editing by Janet Lawrence)