MMC
09-02-2011, 10:31 AM
Looks Like the Libyan Rebels are against Blacks.....Amnesty International is speaking out about the treatment of blacks in Libya. The Rebels and Libyans are abducting them from off the streets and their homes.
Qadhafi had let Black Africans into his country with the promise of jobs and work. Many are loyal to him and picked up weapons to fight for him. But the Rebels are locking up blacks and there is no system in place to assure that revenge attacks are not being implemented on any blacks caught. The Rebels say other civilians capture them and bring them in too. So there are no rights given as yet. But the Rebels state these people will be given fair trials. Yet if they are not even part of the fighting and are innocent then why should they have to stand trial?
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift jails across the capital.
Virtually all of the detainees say they are innocent migrant workers, and in most cases there is no evidence that they are lying. But that is not stopping the rebels from placing the men in facilities like the Gate of the Sea sports club, where about 200 detainees — all black — clustered on a soccer field this week, bunching against a high wall to avoid the scorching sun.
"The danger is that there is no oversight by any authorities, and the people who are carrying out the arrests — more like abductions — are not trained to respect human rights," said Diana Eltahawy of Amnesty International. "They are people who carry a lot of anger against people they believe committed atrocities."
"They believe that most of the black in Libya are mercenaries, so now all the blacks on the street, they pick them up," he said.....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-rebels-round-black-africans-130723394.html
Qadhafi had let Black Africans into his country with the promise of jobs and work. Many are loyal to him and picked up weapons to fight for him. But the Rebels are locking up blacks and there is no system in place to assure that revenge attacks are not being implemented on any blacks caught. The Rebels say other civilians capture them and bring them in too. So there are no rights given as yet. But the Rebels state these people will be given fair trials. Yet if they are not even part of the fighting and are innocent then why should they have to stand trial?
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift jails across the capital.
Virtually all of the detainees say they are innocent migrant workers, and in most cases there is no evidence that they are lying. But that is not stopping the rebels from placing the men in facilities like the Gate of the Sea sports club, where about 200 detainees — all black — clustered on a soccer field this week, bunching against a high wall to avoid the scorching sun.
"The danger is that there is no oversight by any authorities, and the people who are carrying out the arrests — more like abductions — are not trained to respect human rights," said Diana Eltahawy of Amnesty International. "They are people who carry a lot of anger against people they believe committed atrocities."
"They believe that most of the black in Libya are mercenaries, so now all the blacks on the street, they pick them up," he said.....snip~
http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-rebels-round-black-africans-130723394.html