The Red Crescent has reportedly recovered the bodies of 14 unidentified men from the city of Benghazi today, all of them shot in the head at close range, with doctors at the city’s main hospital saying they were almost certainly executed.
Details are scant, mostly because no one yet knows who the men are, but they were recovered from a neighborhood held by Libyan Army Chief Khalifa Hifter, raising concerns that his force, which has been trying to establish control over a growing portion of the city, is using increasingly aggressive tactics.
UN Envoy to Libya Martin Kobler insisted that the summary executions were clearly war crimes, and demanded an immediate investigation to determine who was responsible for the incident. It’s unclear that will happen, with so much of Libya under disputed control by myriad factions.
Hifter’s Army, for instance, is loyal to the Tobruk parliament, or at least mostly loyal to it, and while that parliament is UN-backed, or at least partly UN-backed, the UN has also blasted them for refusing to endorse a Tripoli-based “unity government.”
Libya is such a safer place to live now that Gaddafi is gone. Hillary Clinton should be praised for her policy of destroying Libya and leaving it for the dogs. . . . NOT!!! And to think there are Americans who actually support this warmongering criminal! May Gaddafi’s ghost and descendants cause a virtual nightmare for those responsible for this mess. Libya was a modern state with many perks offered to the population before Hillary got her evil hands on it!
Well, let’s not go overboard in praising that nutcase Gaddafi. But your points about Killary are dead on.
The U.N. isn’t calling for a war crimes investigation of those dead Syrian civilians who were murdered by Obama and the Pentagon, however.