This is what the democracy looks like that Obama brought: Todays Libya is overrun by militias and faces a deteriorating human rights situation, mounting chaos that is infecting other countries, growing internal splits, and even the threat of civil war. (...) Some human rights abuses began in the tumultuous days that followed Gaddafis removal, and were ignored by the west. Ever since the fall of his dictatorship, there have been stories of black Libyans being treated en masse as Gaddafi loyalists and attacked. In a savage act of collective punishment, 35,000 people were driven out of Tawergha in retaliation for the brutal siege of the anti-Gaddafi stronghold of Misrata. The town was trashed and its inhabitants have been left in what human rights organisations are calling deplorable conditions in a Tripoli refugee camp. Such forced removals continue elsewhere...
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:38:43 +0000
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