Rebel leaders have rejected plans by the UN to send hundreds of international forces into liberated Libya, insisting that they will secure the country themselves.
Rebel fighters prepare ammunitions in Ben Jawad, some 120 kilometers of Sirte Photo: AFP/Getty Images
By Jon Swaine
12:19AM BST 31 Aug 2011
A leaked document drafted by a Libya taskforce reporting to Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General, called for up to 200 military observers and 190 UN police to help stabilise the country.
The observers were to oversee the process of dealing with forces who had surrendered after fighting for Muammar Gaddafi, while the police would also have helped train local forces under the new regime.
It is thought that Jordan and Turkey had been approached over the role of heading the multinational force, which would also have protected a planned UN mission comprising dozens of civilian officials.
However leaders of the National Transitional Council, who have been in frequent contact with high-level UN officials, have ruled out the possibility of foreign forces playing a major role.
Ian Martin, Mr Ban's special adviser on post-conflict planning for Libya, told a meeting of global bodies engaged in the country: "We are not now expecting a request for any United Nations military deployment".
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However he added: "We stand ready to bring the extensive experience the United Nations has developed from so many post-conflict contexts".
A US-based human rights watchdog yesterday said that the Gaddafi regime forced civilians to act as human shields, and placed children on Libyan tanks to deter NATO airstrikes.
Physicians for Human Rights said it had also found evidence of a pattern of murders, rapes "disappearances" and other apparent war crimes during an investigation in the city of Misurata in June.
"Four eyewitnesses reported that troops forcibly detained 107 civilians and used them as human shields to guard military munitions from NATO attacks south of Misrata," their report said.
The group also said a witness reported that a primary school in the city had been turned into a detention site where Gaddafi troops "raped women and girls as young as 14 years old".
In one instance, three sisters aged 15, 17 and 18 were raped by troops before being killed by their father in an attempt to rid the family of the shame, the report said.
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