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Rebels settle scores in Libyan capital
UN urges restraint as the rebels wreak their revenge on 'loyalists'
By Kim Sengupta in Tripoli
Saturday, 27 August 2011
The killings were pitiless.
They had taken place at a makeshift hospital, in a tent marked clearly
with the symbols of the Islamic Crescent. Some of the dead were on
stretchers, attached to intravenous drips. Some were on the back of an
ambulance that had been shot at. A few were on the ground, seemingly
attempting to crawl to safety when the bullets came.
Around 30 men lay decomposing in the heat. Many of them had their hands
tied behind their back, either with plastic handcuffs or ropes. One had
a scarf stuffed into his mouth. Almost all of the victims were black
men. Their bodies had been dumped near the scene of two of the fierce
battles between rebel and regime forces in Tripoli.
"Come and see. These are blacks, Africans, hired by Gaddafi,
mercenaries," shouted Ahmed Bin Sabri, lifting the tent flap to show the
body of one dead patient, his grey T-shirt stained dark red with blood,
the saline pipe running into his arm black with flies. Why had an
injured man receiving treatment been executed? Mr Sabri, more a camp
follower than a fighter, shrugged. It was seemingly incomprehensible to
him that anything wrong had been done.
The full report is here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/rebels-settle-scores-in-libyan-capital-2344671.html
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