Many are expressing dismay at the post-capture treatment of Moammar Gadhafi and his eventual summary execution. This should not be the case however, Salon’s Daniel Williams notes, since the Misrata rebels that captured Sirte have been performing revenge killings on Gadhafi’s supporters and even civilians assumed to be supporters for months now.
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I am afraid that it is too generous to call this "revenge" killings. That just makes it sound somewhat understood. What is going on is fight over LOOT, and the "rebels' are fighting over control of sections of cities. They all want control over wealthiest parts of towns. They break into homes, loot all valuables and kill civilians at will. Men, women, children have been raped and killed at will.
Where is the press now? Who believes that all this can remain hidden for ever? It is starting to look like what France did in Ivory Coast. Bloodbath on a grand scale, and that was called democracy! Now, the most primitive tribes of Libya have been brought in to commit mass murder, and as a result, the country will not have any educated, middle class left! Those would be the reminder of the former prosperous society, so the decision is to decimate them on a mass scale. AND for as long as we are silent, and our press is silent, we may be complicit in the worst massacre since Rwanda.