Speaking today on Bloomberg TV, East Libyan rebel Vice President Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said his faction believes that the overall death toll of the Libyan Civil War is in excess of 15,000, cautioning that civilians remained in jeopardy.
Ghoga’s solution, predictably, was a demand for NATO to once again escalate its role in the conflict, bombing more sites in the cities in Western Libya, the side of the nation that is largely under the control of the Gadhafi regime.
The toll is quite a bit higher than the last figure from rebels, which was 8,000 as of mid-March. It is however quite a bit lower than the US estimate. In late-April US envoy Gene Cretz claimed there were likely 30,000 dead.
The accuracy of any of the tolls coming out of Libya are impossible to verify given the near total lack of journalists on the ground. It is particularly difficult as over the past two months the wars are centered almost exclusively around a handful of extremely dangerous, contested cities.
15,000 killed in 3 months is about 166 per day on average.
Highly unlikely.
in Germany we have this law (machine translated with few corrections):
Constitution Statement:
Article 26 prohibition of aggressive war
(1) acts tending to and undertaken with the intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations, especially to prepare for aggressive war, are unconstitutional. It is a criminal offense and needs a penalty.
of Penal Code:
§ 80, inciting a war of aggression
Who in the territory covered by this law in public, in a meeting, or by disseminating writings (§ 11 para 3) for aggressive war (§ 80) incites, shall be punished with imprisonment from three months to five years.
Because of this, the government puppets seem to have fear partly. May be our corrupt law system is not corrupt enough or not reliable corrupt, to assure that chancelors are not penalized as formerly chancelor Schroeder for the attack on Yougoslavia.
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This oddly reminds me of the Kosovo mess where the words “genocide” etc. where tossed about only to find, afterwards, the numbers were wildly inaccurate. But, hey, who the hell cares when the empire has killin to do.
At a Pentagon briefing meanwhile, Major-General Wydgirth Bulgbottom reminded the press corps that "We don’t do body counts and they are only Wogs anyway". Broad applause resulted, until a reporter mentioned that such a comment could be construed as racist, and the triviality of mass death was soon forgotten in the subsequent exchanges.