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, [...]
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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Operations will cease on Monday after Security Council vote… The UNSC has voted to end military operations in Libya, including both the mandate for the protection of civilians and the imposition of a no-fly-zone. In March the Security Council voted to use ‘all necessary measures’ to protect civilian life in Libya, however countries [...]
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NATO’s recent success in Libya should not distract from the need for both internal reform and cool-headedness in choosing future missions… Whilst only a few years prior, analysts were predicting NATO’s demise as it struggled in Afghanistan, recent developments in Libya have generated a sense of optimism unseen since the Kosovo campaign. NATO [...]
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The British Army is contravening Geneva conventions by handing prisoners to Afghan government… The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has said that the British Army in Afghanistan, along with other Nato members, is breaking international law, by handing detainees over to Afghan forces despite the knowledge that torture of prisoners is rife and widely [...]
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Thomas Baron says Libyan intervention highlights western double standards on the issue of the Arab Spring… We are all aware that western intervention in the disputes of other nations is rarely done for the ‘humanitarian’ reasons the leaders are always so quick to claim. Underlying hostilities and old wounds which appeared benign soon [...]
Continue reading …A Canadian based drone manufacter has released details and video footage, showing how Libyan revolutionaries used tiny drones to map out the positions of Muammar Gaddafi’s forces during fighting. Read it at the LA Times
Continue reading …A day after Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab Al-Aziziyah compound was taken over by the Libyan opposition, fighting has continued there. It is thought Gaddafi loyalists are still entrenched around the Abu Salim area of Tripoli, close to the compound. Regime elements also hold onto the area around the Rixos hotel, where are a number of foreign [...]
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