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Libya's new rulers vow to prosecute those responsible for Col Gaddafi's death
Libya's new rulers have said they will prosecute the killers of Col Muammar Gaddafi following an outcry over his apparent execution.
Gaddafi's apparent execution at the hands of a frenzied mob has been denounced by the NTC's international backers. Photo: REUTERS
By Ben Farmer, in Misurata
7:09PM BST 27 Oct 2011
Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC), said whoever killed the former dictator, who was seized as he tried to break out of his besieged hometown, would be "judged and given a fair trial".
His comments came as the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to end its mandate for international military action in Libya.
Nato is now expected to declare an end to the seven-month-long air campaign which played a significant part in toppling Col Gaddafi.
Col Gaddafi's apparent execution at the hands of a frenzied mob soon after he was dragged from a drain where he had been cornered has been denounced by the NTC's international backers.
Unease was over his death was deepened by the lengthy public exhibition of his body and accusations that dozens of Gaddafi loyalist prisoners had been murdered by rebels in the days before the city of Sirte fell.
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Philip Hammond, Defence Secretary, has said the death had "stained" the reputation of Libya's fledgling interim government.
Mr Ghoga said: "With regards to Gaddafi, we do not wait for anybody to tell us.
"We had already launched an investigation. We have issued a code of ethics in handling of prisoners of war. I am sure that was an individual act and not an act of revolutionaries or the national army."
Col Gaddafi was taken, bloodied, but alive, from the drain after his failed attempt to flee Sirte and mobile phone footage showed him being beaten and tortured as jubilant rebels surrounded him.
He died on his way to hospital of bullet wounds to his head and chest according to a post mortem.
Until now, the official NTC account has maintained that the dictator was killed in crossfire in fighting with loyalists after he was captured.
However conflicting rebel accounts and mobile phone footage have instead identified several different men as Col Gaddafi's killer.
One piece of film taken soon after the killing shows an unnamed young fighter, brandishing a handgun, standing next to an ambulance bearing Col Gaddafi's body and being lauded by his comrades.
Fighters from the city of Misurata were the first to find Col Gaddafi and few have shown any sympathy for his death. Doctors estimate the city suffered more than 1,500 killed after it rose against the Gaddafi regime.
Nasser Zintani, said: "If Gaddafi came back to life, I would kill him again a million times. Gaddafi was sentenced to death long ago and the man who did it was merely carrying out his sentence."
Yassin Humaid, commander of the Shuhada Square brigade, said: "I am happy Gaddafi is dead, but if the way he was killed was against human rights and the Geneva Convention, then they should go to court. We are with the law."
The UN voted to cancel its authorisation for military action at the end of October 31 despite an NTC request that Nato continue operations until the end of the year to stop the loyalists escaping to neighbouring countries.
William Hague, Foreign Secretary, said the decision was "another significant milestone towards a peaceful, democratic future for Libya".
He said: "Ending the no-fly zone and the civilian protection provisions demonstrates that Libya has entered a new era."
The NTC had "a duty to uphold human rights and must prevent reprisals and revenge attacks" after Col Gaddafi's death, he added.
Meanwhile Abdullah al-Senussi, Col Gaddafi's fugitive intelligence chief, had passed from Niger into Mali, security sources from both countries claimed.
Mr al-Senussi and Col Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, are both wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their role in the repression of the uprising.
An NTC source claimed Saif al-Islam had requested an aircraft to fly him from Libya's southern desert to the Hague, where he intended to hand himself over to the ICC.
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Libya's new government is spooked by the remnants of the Gaddafi regime, writes John Lyons
John Lyons, Middle East correspondent
The Australian
October 27, 2011 6:33AM
EVEN though the rebels in Libya have defeated the forces of Muammar Gaddafi, their call for NATO to remain involved in Libya amounts to the equivalent of a security blanket.
The head of the new interim government, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, yesterday made the case for NATO to remain in Libya until at least the end of this year.
"We look forward to NATO continuing its operations until the end of the year," he said.
"We seek technical and logistics help from neighbouring and friendly countries."
The call shows that despite victory over Gaddafi, rebels forces remain spooked by remnants of the Gaddafi regime.
That is not surprising. For 42 years, Libyans have seen the brutality of the Gaddafi intelligence and military machine.
The Gaddafi regime was built on fear. It survived on fear. It relied on neighbour not trusting neighbour, work colleague not trusting work colleague.
Two things are spooking the new regime - the enormous number of guns floating around and the fact that Gaddafi's son and one-time heir apparent, Saif al-Islam, is still on the loose.
Reports suggest that Saif al-Islam is prepared to surrender. But this was a man who for eight months has used phrases such as "blood will flow," so until he actually is detained nobody is certain that he is prepared to give up the fight.
Mr Jalil says NATO needs to stay to prevent members of the old regime from fleeing to other countries.
While his sentiment is understandable, that sort of mission is simply not NATO's job.
NATO cannot become some sort of border police operation. NATO's function in Libya, as mandated by the United Nations Security Council, was purely to degrade Gaddafi's military might to prevent civilians being slaughtered.
It did that. Its job is over.
The NTC needs to quickly take over its own law enforcement or convince its friends in the international community, other than NATO, to assist in tasks like border control.
But it is not smart for Mr Jalil to be asking - publicly - for NATO to do something it cannot do.
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North Korea bans citizens working in Libya from returning home
North Korea has banned its own citizens working in Libya from returning home, apparently out of fear that they will reveal the extent - and final outcomes - of the revolutions that have shaken the Arab world.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il Photo: APBy Julian Ryall, Tokyo
7:39AM BST 27 Oct 2011
Pyongyang had a close working relationship with the regime of Moammar Gaddafi before the popular uprising that unseated him. That revolution was completed with Gaddafi's death at the hands of insurgents last week - leaving Kim Jong-Il as one of a dwindling band of old-fashioned dictators on the planet.
An estimated 200 North Korean nationals are in Libya and previously worked as doctors, nurses and construction workers, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. They had been dispatched to the country in order to earn the hard currency that Pyongyang requires to fund its missile and nuclear weapons programmes.
Yonhap reported that the North Korean nationals have been left in limbo, joining their compatriots who are stuck in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries with orders not to return home.
North Korean media has so far failed to report that Gaddafi is dead and the government has made no moves to officially recognise Libya's National Transitional Council as the legitimate governing authority of the country.
The decision to ban its own nationals from returning indicates just how concerned the North Korean regime is of the news leaking out to its subjugated people.
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An editorial in The Korea Herald stated that the one per cent of North Koreans who are aware of the Arab Spring uprisings will be top-level party and administration officials, as well as the trusted few who are permitted to travel to China on business.
"Pyongyang’s silence about the fall of the dictators in Tunisia and Egypt and the bloody death of Gaddafi reveals Kim Jong-il’s awareness of the vulnerability of his regime in the process of a third-generation dynastic succession of power," the paper said.
"Despite their boasting of the perfect loyalty of the 23 million people to the party and the leader, the ruling elite are afraid of what effect the information on the fates of the overseas dictatorships will have on the oppressed people of the country."
The paper suggested that recent conciliatory moves towards the government in South Korea and the United States may indicate an increasing pragmatism about the problems that beset the regime, ranging from economic stagnation to widespread hunger for a large part of the population.
"Kim Jong-il should know how precarious his situation is since the global league of dictators has continued to shrink more speedily this year," the paper stated. "Violent demonstrations are raging in the two Middle East nations and it is a matter of time before the North Korean people reach the limit of their endurance of hunger and repression and rise up against Kim’s rule."
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Nhưng đê tiện, bẩn thỉu, gớm ghiếc, đánh khinh bỉ nhất, đáng TỞM nhất vẫn là bè lũ Việt gian phản quốc CƯỚP NƯỚC DIỆT CHỦNG BÁN NƯỚC chó đẻ cộng sản VN .
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Libya: stockpiles of chemical weapons found
Chemical weapons have been found in Libya by National Transitional Council forces, a representative of the movement that ousted the late Muammar Gaddafi has said.
Residents carry a dead body that was found near the site of burning tankers, after an explosion on the outskirts of Sirte, Libya Photo: REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
7:00AM BST 27 Oct 2011
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The NTC said the chemical warheads had been secured and would be made safe by experts.
"They are from the Gaddafi era and are under guard, until they can be handed over," an NTC representative said at a meeting between the council and NATO representatives in Qatar.
The discovery of the munitions proves that Gaddafi had refused to give up his weapons of mass destruction despite promising Tony Blair in 2004 he would relinquish them in the 'Deal in the Desert'.
Mr Blair has long claimed that he forced the dictator to give up his weapons of mass destruction programme. The disarming process was not finished because of the outbreak of war and the rebels feared Gaddafi would unleash deadly mustard gas and other chemicals on his own people.
Ian Martin, head of the UN mission in Libya, told a Security Council meeting that new previously undeclared sites for storing chemical weapons had been uncovered since the fall of Gaddafi's government.
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Gaddafi's regime had "accumulated the largest known stockpile of anti-aircraft missiles," Mr Martin said.
"Thousands were destroyed during NATO operations. But I have to report to you our increasing concerns over the looting and likely proliferation of MANPADS," or Man-Portable Air Defense Systems, Mr Martin told the 15-member Security Council.
He said munitions and large numbers of mines had also been looted.
Nuclear and chemical weapons materials are mainly controlled by National Transitional Council forces.
But Mr Martin noted that "it has become clearer that there are additional sites with previously undeclared chemical weapons or materials that the government is about to formally declare" to international inspectors.
International experts working with the NTC had identified MANPADS sites and storage areas, mainly in eastern Libya, though Martin cautioned that "hundreds" of suspected sites should still be inspected.
He said mines had been laid around many cities and that there were large quantities of unexploded bombs and missiles in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte and in Bani Walid.
"In Tripoli, many stockpiles are suspected in residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, where they seem to have been moved by Kadhafi forces to conceal them from airstrikes. They mostly remain unsecured," Mr Martin said.
The surface-to-air missiles can be used against civilian jets and other ordnance can easily be converted into car bombs and roadside explosives, according to experts.
Human Rights Watch said that two unguarded sites it has inspected near Sirte contained surface-to-air missiles, tank and mortar rounds, large numbers of munitions and thousands of guided and unguided aerial weapons.
The group said that while its representatives were at one sites, which had already been looted, civilians and armed fighters arrived with pickup trucks to remove more weapons.
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24 October 2011 Last updated at 10:52 GMT
Muammar Gaddafi: How he died
Col Muammar Gaddafi died from bullet wounds some time after a failed attempt to escape from the fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC), but the exact circumstances of his death are still emerging.
Attempt to escape Sirte
After the fall of Tripoli in August, Sirte remained one of the final pockets of loyalist resistance, in particular District 2 in the north-west of the city.
In the early hours of Thursday it appears that Col Gaddafi, accompanied by key loyalists, decided to attempt a breakout from District 2 in a convoy of vehicles.
At about 08:30 local time French aircraft operating as part of the Nato mission attacked the convoy of 75 vehicles heading out of Sirte at high speed approximately 3-4 km (two miles) west of the city near the western roundabout.
Among those in the convoy were Col Gaddafi's son Mutassim and head of Gaddafi's army Abu Bakr Younis Jabr - both men were later reported dead at the scene and Mutassim's body shown on Libyan TV.
According to Nato, a first strike destroyed one vehicle and caused the convoy to disperse into several groups.
One of those groups, carrying Col Gaddafi, headed south and was hit again by a Nato fighter, destroying 11 vehicles.
Col Gaddafi and a handful of his men managed to escape on foot and sought refuge in two large drainage pipes filled with rubbish. Rebel forces then closed in.
Fighter Salem Bakeer told Reuters: "At first we fired at them with anti-aircraft guns, but it was no use.
"Then we went in on foot. One of Gaddafi's men came out waving his rifle in the air... as soon as he saw my face he started shooting at me. I think Gaddafi must have told them to stop. 'My master is here, my master is here', he said, 'Muammar Gaddafi is here and he is wounded'".
Gaddafi caught
Col Gaddafi was initially captured at around noon.
Amateur video of Col Muammar Gaddafi shortly before he was shot dead
The al-Jazeera news channel broadcast footage showing the dazed and wounded Col Gaddafi gesticulating while being man-handled by rebel fighters.
Salem Bakeer told Reuters: "We went in and brought Gaddafi out. He was saying 'What's wrong? What's wrong? What's going on?' Then we took him and put him in the car." One fighter showed reporters a golden pistol he said he had taken from Col Gaddafi.
BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Sirte: "I have spoken to the man who says that he captured him... he was brandishing a golden pistol"
What happened next and how Libya's former leader died remains unclear.
What is certain is that at 16:30 local time, Mahmoud Jibril, the NTC prime minister, confirmed the news that Col Gaddafi was dead, saying: "We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Gaddafi has been killed."
According to Mr Jibril, the colonel died just minutes away from hospital.
He later told journalists that a "forensic report" had concluded that the colonel had died from bullet wounds when the car he was in was caught in crossfire. "The forensic doctor could not tell if it came from the revolutionaries or from Gaddafi's forces," he said.
An interview with the commander of the brigade that captured Gaddafi suggests that the former leader died in an ambulance and appears to support the official version that he was killed in crossfire.
But a man claiming to be an eyewitness told the BBC that he saw Col Gaddafi being shot with a 9mm gun in the abdomen at around 12:30 local time and initial video footage seemed to show Col Gaddafi's body being dragged through the streets of Misrata.
Col Muammar Gaddafi was shot in the abdomen, according to a man who says he was there
Further amateur video footage has also emerged of a convoy of NTC fighters following an ambulance. The video includes scenes of soldiers celebrating with a man who they claim shot Col Gaddafi.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has said there should be a full investigation.
Her spokesman Rupert Colville told the BBC: "There are two videos out there, one showing him alive and one showing him dead and there are four or five different versions of what happened in between those two cellphone videos. That obviously raises very, very major concerns."
The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse visited the drain where Col Gaddafi was reportedly found by NTC forces
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Các anh chị nghĩ thế nào, có ý kiến, phê bình gì qua bài viết "Muammar Gaddafi: How he died" ?
Theo các anh chị, với độc tài Gadhafi, kẻ đã cầm quyền suốt 42 năm, đã GIẾT bao nhiêu mạng người Libya chưa ai biết, chưa ai xác định được, đã bị thế giới và tòa án quốc tế buộc tội "chống nhân lọai", tàn sát người dân của ông ta, "How he died" có thật sự là vấn đề quan trọng ?
Các anh chị nghĩ thế nào về tình hình hiện nay tại Syria, Yemen, những người dân tay không tấc sắt đã và đang ĐỨNG LÊN, XUỐNG ĐƯỜNG đòi lại QUYỀN LÀM NGƯỜI, đã bị cầm quyền ĐỘC TÀI của họ TƯỚC ĐỌAT, đã bị GIẾT không nương tay, không chút xót thương có đáng cho những ai biết tôn trọng NHÂN QUYỀN và CÔNG LÝ quan tâm ???
Còn nữa, còn một xứ sở đang có tên cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa VN, cầm quyền là ĐỘC đảng cộng sản VN, là một lũ phản quốc CƯỚP NƯỚC DIỆT CHỦNG BÁN NƯỚC, đã và đang đưa cả dân tộc VN xuống hàng chó ngựa, chúng đã phạm hầu hết nếu không muốn nói là nhiều hơn những TỘI ÁC kinh thiên động địa mà những tên độc tài ở Bắc Phi và Trung Đông đã phạm . Thêm vào đó, lũ thú vật csVN này còn phạm thêm một TỘI ÁC vô tiền khóang hậu mà không cầm quyền độc tài nào dám phạm, đó là TỘI ÁC BÁN NƯỚC .
Thế giới văn minh ngày nay đã vất chủ nghĩa cộng sản vào hố xí của nhân lọai, vào nơi phế thải của lòai người, tại sao còn dung dưỡng, còn bơm hơi tiếp máu để duy trì những thằng súc sinh độc tài độc đảng nham hiểm tàn bạo, bẩn thỉu đê tiện vô lọai cộng sản VN, những con ác thú mang những vi khuẩn vô cùng nguy hiểm độc hại cho lòai người để chúng tiếp tục sinh sôi nảy nở để làm NHIỄM ĐỘC và HỦY DIỆT con người ?
Còn nữa, người dân VN đã và đang bị MẤT NƯỚC vào tay bè lũ phản quốc CƯỚP NƯỚC DIỆT CHỦNG BÁN NƯỚC csVN, trước Ngọn Lửa Cách Mạng LẬT ĐỔ cầm quyền độc tài ở Bắc Phi và Trung Đông, trước ngày tàn Ô NHỤC của Gadhafi đã tỉnh ra chưa để thấy việc làm đội lũ súc sinh BÁN NƯỚC và cái đảng phản quốc csVN với cờ máu, với thằng quốc tặc hồ chí minh trên đầu "xuống đường chống tàu xâm lược" là một TRÒ HỀ trơ trẽn, nham nhở cần phải chấm dứt càng sớm càng tốt để dồn mọi nổ lực ĐẬP THẲNG vào đầu lũ BÁN NƯỚC csVN để tự giải thóat mình trước khi chống "tàu xâm lược" ???
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi 'trying to broker deal to surrender to ICC'
Col Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son and his intelligence chief are trying to broker a deal to surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a military commander with the new Libyan administration has claimed.
Saif al-Islam had been his late father's favoured son and was seen as his heir apparent Photo: REUTERS/Paul Hackett
By Ben Farmer, Tripoli
6:59PM BST 26 Oct 2011
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi had concluded they were safer handing themselves in rather than remaining on the run in Libya, or trying to hide in a neighbouring country.
The Hague-based court issued arrest warrants for the two men and Col Gaddafi in June for their role in the bloody attempted suppression of the February 17 revolution.
A spokesman for the court said he had no information on any proposed deal or negotiations, however.
Diplomatic sources also said they had no information to suggest the claims were true.
"They are proposing a way to hand themselves over to The Hague," said Abdel Majid Mlegta, a senior military commander with the National Transitional Council (NTC). "They feel that it is not safe for them to stay where they are or to go anywhere."
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Both men are believed to have fled to the deserts of southern Libya after the final Gaddafi loyalist holdouts of Sirte and Bani Walid were captured by rebel forces last week.
Tuareg sources in Niamey had suggested they were trying to cross into Niger where more than 30 Gaddafi regime figures had already taken refuge.
Mr Mlegta said that according to intelligence reports, both men had now reconsidered after deciding they would be at risk in Niger or Algeria.
He also said they had decided Niger was asking for too much money to take them.
Saif al-Islam had been his late father's favoured son and was seen as his heir apparent.
He disappointed many Libyan's and diplomats by siding fully with his father's brutal crackdown against the uprising, despite having advocated political and economic reform to the regime in the past decade.
Both Col Gaddafi and his son "conceived and orchestrated a plan to deter and quell by all means the civilian demonstrations" against the regime according to ICC prosecutors.
Mr Senussi used his position of command to have attacks carried out, they allege.
Fadi El Abdallah, spokesman for the ICC, said. "We don't have confirmation about this now. We are trying to contact the NTC for more information."
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Qatar admits sending hundreds of troops to support Libya rebels
Qatari chief-of-staff reveals extent of involvment, saying troops were responsible for training, communications and strategy
Ian Black in Tripoli
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 October 2011 18.33 BST
Article history
A Qatari jet fighter takes off for a mission over Libya in March. Until now, Qatar had acknowledged only that its airforce has taken part in Nato operations. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images
Qatar has admitted for the first time that it sent hundreds of troops to support the Libyan rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
The Gulf state had previously acknowledged only that its air force took part in Nato-led attacks.
The revelation came as Qatar hosted a conference on the post-Gaddafi era that was attended by the leader of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, who described the Qataris as having planned the battles that paved the way for victory.
Abdel-Jalil also said he was asking Nato to extend its mission beyond the end of the month, when it had been due to end, until the end of the year. Help was needed because regime loyalists posed a threat from neighbouring countries, he said.
Gaddafi relatives and other key figures have fled to Algeria and Niger, amid speculation about the whereabouts of the deposed leader's son Saif al-Islam.
A Libyan military official with the NTC told Reuters that Saif and the former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi are proposing to hand themselves in to the international criminal court. A spokesman for the ICC, however, said it had received no confirmation of the claim.
The Associated Press meanwhile reported an adviser to Niger's president, Mahamadou Issoufou, as saying Senussi was in their country.
It also has emerged that now the fighting is over, Qatar is to lead international efforts to train the Libyan military, collect weapons and integrate often autonomous rebel units into newly established military and security institutions – seen by the UN and western governments as the key challenge facing the NTC.
Qatar played a key role in galvanising Arab support for the UN security council resolution that mandated Nato to defend Libyan civilians in March. It also delivered weapons and ammunition on a large scale – without any clear legal basis.
There were repeated rumours about and occasional sightings of Qatari special forces in Libya during the war. Until now, however, there had been no official confirmation of actions that were not explicitly authorised by the UN.
The Qatari chief-of-staff, Major-General Hamad bin Ali al-Atiya, said: "We were among them and the numbers of Qataris on the ground were hundreds in every region. Training and communications had been in Qatari hands. Qatar … supervised the rebels' plans because they are civilians and did not have enough military experience," AFP quoted him as saying. "We acted as the link between the rebels and Nato forces."
Qatar, whose gas reserves and tiny population make it one of the richest countries in the world, has long pursued an activist foreign policy, promoted by al-Jazeera, the Doha-based satellite TV channel.
But there was still surprise when it sent most of its air force to join Nato's operation and delivered large quantities of what were described as defensive weapons but which included Milan anti-tank missiles to the rebels.
Qatari special forces are reported to have provided infantry training to Libyan fighters in the western Nafusa mountains and in eastern Libya. Qatar's military even brought Libyan rebels back to Doha for exercises. And in the final assault on Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli in late August, Qatari special forces were seen on the frontline. Qatar also gave $400m to the rebels, helped them export oil from Benghazi and set up a TV station in Doha.
Libyan gratitude is clear. The maroon and white flag of Qatar is often flown at celebrations and Algeria Square in central Tripoli has been renamed Qatar Square in honour of the country's support in toppling Gaddafi. Some, however, express concern at the emirate's support for Islamist elements such as the 17 February Martyrs Brigade, one of the most influential rebel formations, led by Abdel-Hakim Belhaj.
Ali Salabi, an influential Libyan Islamist cleric, lived in exile in Qatar for years before this year's revolution. For some analysts the emir's strategy is to support democratic forces selectively in the Arab world, partly to improve the country's international standing while diverting attention from the Gulf, where anti-regime protests have been crushed in Bahrain and bought off in Saudi Arabia.
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Wounded Syrian protesters being tortured in hospital, claims Amnesty
Syrian regime uses hospitals as 'instruments of repression', says report, adding that some medics are involved in abuses
Luke Harding
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 25 October 2011 18.59 BST
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Syrian soldiers in Hula near Homs, where Amnesty says it has compelling evidence of hospitals being used in violent repression of protest movement. Photograph: Reuters
Protesters wounded in anti-government rallies in Syria have been tortured and abused inside hospitals, and in some cases deliberately refused medical treatment, according to a damning report by Amnesty International.
The human rights group said there was compelling evidence that the Syrian government was using hospitals as "instruments of repression" in its ongoing efforts to crush opposition. The report said medical staff, nurses and security officials had all physically and verbally attacked patients. Seriously wounded demonstrators suspected of taking part in anti-government rallies had been carted off from hospital to military jails, Amnesty added.
The report paints a picture of human rights violations in four government-run hospitals, in the cities of Banias, Homs and Tell Kalakh, with the military trawling wards in search of the opposition. The situation has grown so bad that wounded protesters are now seeking treatment in makeshift field hospitals instead, it says.
Security officials have also accused doctors of siding with demonstrators – arresting them and taking them away. Other Arab states seeking to crush their own uprisings have used similar methods of intimidation. Last month 20 medics in Bahrain were jailed for five to 15 years for treating activists wounded in anti-government protests, prompting international outrage.
"It is deeply alarming that the Syrian authorities seem to have given security forces a free rein in hospitals and that in many cases hospital staff appear to have taken part in torture and ill treatment of the very people they are supposed to care for," Amnesty's Middle East researcher Cilina Nasser said on Tuesday.
"Given the scale and seriousness of the injuries being sustained by people across the country, it is disturbing to find that many consider it safer to risk not having major wounds treated rather than going to proper medical facilities," Nasser added.
The UN estimates more than 3,000 Syrians have been shot dead during the violent government crackdown on protesters. Thousands have been injured. The uprising began at the start of the year but escalated from mid-March, with protests in numerous Syrian towns as well as the capital, Damascus. On Monday, the US withdrew its ambassador to Syria over safety fears.
The report cites several examples of treatment being denied, in contravention of medical ethics. In one case a patient, 28, who was shot in the foot on 16 May, was told by a doctor at Homs military hospital: "I'm not going to clean your wound … I'm waiting for your foot to rot so that we can cut it off."
One severely wounded patient, Ahmed, woke from surgery to discover seven or eight security officials standing round his bed. One witness said: "He opened his eyes and said: 'Where am I?' They all suddenly jumped on him and started beating and hitting him … They shouted foul language at him and said: 'You pig, you want freedom, eh?'" Ahmed was later taken from hospital. His whereabouts are unknown.
In another case, soldiers took an injured 21-year-old protester to the Homs military hospital morgue and asked him to identify bodies of men from his hometown. He recognised three – but failed to identify the others. Officials locked him in, leaving him shivering among the bodies. "After around one or two hours, I felt so cold deep in my bones and couldn't stop shivering," he recalled, adding that he made up some names in order to "save myself".
But some medical staff have behaved with exemplary professionalism. In March and April the director of Homs hospital called four meetings, instructing his staff to treat all patients – military and civilian – without discrimination. Others who have taken a principled stand have been summoned for interrogation by Syria's feared internal security bureau. Some have fled the country.
James Walsh, an Amnesty researcher on health and detention, said the level of abuse in Syrian hospitals was "quite striking". But he pointed out that there were also medical professionals who were taking significant risks to protect patients. "It's a complex mix of failed ethics, where people are in a coercive environment and where being a hero is not necessarily going to be an easy thing." He conceded that given the secrecy involved it was difficult to gain a clear picture from outside.
Amnesty International also found that patients had been removed from hospitals. On 7 September, security forces looking for an alleged armed field commander opposed to the government raided al-Birr wa al-Khadamat hospital in Homs. When they did not find him, they arrested 18 wounded people. A staff member present during the raid recalled seeing at least one unconscious patient having his ventilator removed before he was taken away.
Cilina Nasser added: "Syrian medical workers are being placed in an impossible situation – forced to choose between treating wounded people and preserving their own safety. The Syrian authorities must see sense and urgently act to ensure that all patients are treated equally, without discrimination based on their suspected political loyalties or activities."
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US Pulls Envoy Out of Syria, Damascus Retaliates
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Published on Oct 24, 2011 by AssociatedPress
The Obama administration pulled its ambassador out of Syria over security concerns, blaming President Bashar Assad's regime for the threats that made it no longer safe for Robert Ford to remain. (Oct. 24)
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