Libya: Nato urged to investigate deaths
Rights group calls on Nato to investigate civilian deaths that resulted from air strikes… The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has failed to acknowledge dozens of civilian casualties from air strikes during its 2011 Libya campaign, and has not investigated possible unlawful attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 76-page report, [...]
People power 2.0 and how civilian tech helped to overthrow Gaddafi… After weeks of skirmishes in the Nafusa Mountains southwest of Tripoli, Sifaw Twawa and his brigade of freedom fighters are at a standstill. It’s a mid-April night in 2011, and Twawa’s men are frightened. Lightly armed and hidden only by trees, they [...]
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From Bashar al-Assad’s love of Right Said Fred, to Kim Jong-il’s obsession with Hollywood… The recently leaked trove of personal emails from the Assad family show that as the Syrian regime indulges in a bloody crackdown, those leading it are often preoccupied with Harry Potter or the latest music on iTunes. So what [...]
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What will be the fate of Libya’s most prominent prisoner? Three months after Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was captured in the Libyan desert, it still remains unclear when and where he may be tried. Currently detained in the mountain town of Zintan, recent pictures of him comfortably sitting down to a substantial meal have [...]
Continue reading …In Libya more than one million children have recently returned to school for the first time, following the months long uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
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The aims of the Nato operation may have been achieved in Libya, but can it be judged a success? An unhinged and violent dictator is toppled through Western military intervention, a transitional authority is appointed, leaders proclaim the country ‘free’, and businessmen are exhorted to flock to the country to make a quick [...]
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Liberated country struggles to cope with psychological impact of war… As Libyans set about the task of physically rebuilding the country after months of war and 42 years of Col Gaddafi, there is a growing recognition of the psychological problems that remain as the celebrations die down. Some experts believe there will now [...]
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Events in the Arab world this year show that the era of the Arab strongman is all but over… The now dead Libyan dictator Col Gaddafi gave a prophetic speech to the Arab League in 2008. As an audience including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad laughed at Gaddafi’s typically rambling performance, he said: A foreign [...]
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