- Continuing NATO atrocities on Libyan civilians gave naked
aggression a new name.
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- Call it what it is: Lawless, Willful, Malevolent Genocidal
Gang Rape, the new supreme international crime against peace ongoing at
this time.
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- In times of war, its legal name is Genocide - what NATO
planners implemented since last March.
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- See for yourself. Independently produced images reveal
what NATO, venal politicians, their PR manipulators, and media liars suppress
or misreport.
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- A committed team of independent journalists, researchers
and cameramen produced the Global Research.ca video accessed below through
the following link:
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- http://omasiali.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/nato-commits-genocide-in-libya/
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- It's a snapshot of what Libyans endure daily under NATO
terror bombings and rebel gang killings to destroy them, their futures
and truth.
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- International law prohibits naked aggression and propaganda
promoting it.
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- Article 21(1) of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (ICCPR) says:
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- "Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law."
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- Propaganda and incitement to commit genocide is worst
of all. Article 3 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide says the "following acts shall be punishable:
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- (a) Genocide;
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- (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
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- (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
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- (d) Attempt to commit genocide;
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- (e) Complicity in genocide."
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- Article 4 states:
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- "Persons committing genocide or any of the other
acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally
responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals."
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- "Direct and public" incitement to commit Genocide
is also prohibited under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
Court's (ICC) Article 25(3)(e). It holds everyone "directly and publicly
(involved in) incit(ing) others to commit genocide" culpable.
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- Article 3(e) of the Statute of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Article 3(c) of the Statute
of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) also prohibit
"direct and public" incitement to commit genocide.
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- Incitement (as opposed to legitimate free expression)
is also forbidden by many other international human rights treaties.
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- America, Britain and France, NATO's three main belligerents,
are signatories to numerous relevant treaties, including the Genocide Convention.
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- Under the Constitution's Supremacy Clause (Article 6,
clause 2), all US Treaties and Federal Statutes are "the supreme Law
of the Land."
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- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
defined propaganda and other forms incitement to commit genocidal mass
killing as follows:
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- "Directly provoking the perpetrator(s) to commit
genocide, whether through speeches, shouting or threats uttered in public
places or at public gatherings, or through the sale or dissemination, offer
for sale or display of written material or printed matter in public places
or at public gatherings, or through the public display of placards or posters
or through any other means of audiovisual communication."
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- Included are official NATO, Pentagon and/or political
written or verbal communications, justifying naked aggression, mischaracterized
as humanitarian intervention responsibility to protect.
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- Also included are supportive PR and/or media propaganda,
disinformation, and or other forms of deceptions.
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- During Nuremberg Tribunal proceedings, German newspaper
editor Julius Streicher was the first person prosecuted for incitement
to commit genocide for publishing anti-Semitic diatribes.
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- However, international law hadn't yet criminalized incitement
at the time, so he was tried for crimes against humanity.
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- Since March 19, NATO belligerents and their rebel gangs
committed daily crimes of war and against humanity. On a massive scale,
it's Genocide!
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- Terror Bombing Sirte
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- As rebel gang killings continue in Tripoli and elsewhere,
NATO keeps terror bombing Sirte. It's Gaddafi's home town, a city of 100,000.
On August 29, Mathaba.net warned of possible massacres. Moreover, rebel
cutthroats surrounded the city, preventing anyone from leaving, saying:
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- Exits "from the city (are) completely blocked. Neither
women, nor children are allowed to leave. Men, captured attempting to leave
the town together with their families, are shot. Their families are sent
back into the city under bombing."
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- "There is practically no way to bury the corpses...."
Retired Russian Special Forces Lt. Col. Ilya Korenev (in Sirte) reported
on the Russian web site Argumenti.ru that:
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- "(T)he situation resembles the terrible winter of
'95 in Grozny, Chechnia, when there was bombing everything that moved,
without proper guiding systems of accurate coordinates....At the moment,
the NATO air force is in the air almost around the clock," raising
the city to the ground, massacring people under rubble or slaughtering
them in open spaces.
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- Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Tripoli
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- The combination of maggot-infested decomposing bodies,
inadequate food, fuel, medical supplies and available care, no running
water, spotty electricity, poor sanitation, garbage in streets, and ongoing
rebel atrocities created a growing humanitarian disaster in Tripoli and
elsewhere.
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- On August 29, the London Times reported nightmarish conditions
in Tripoli, including all of the above, as well as:
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- "Hospitals are running out of oxygen, fixators for
treating fractures, and drugs for conditions such as diabetes."
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- "Telephones work only intermittently. Most commercial
life ceased months ago. Many people have no money left because the banks
are shut and salaries have not been paid."
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- These conditions are compounded by rebel-committed assassinations
and other terror killings. Rotting corpses are everywhere, including in
hospitals and Abu Salim, a Gaddafi loyalist stronghold home to many government
officials.
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- Before NATO showed up, Tripoli was called the "White
Bride of the Mediterranean," a once modern, cosmopolitan metropolis,
known for its historical attractions, wonderful beaches, and other attractions.
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- One tourist guide said:
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- "Tripoli is generally a quiet safe travel destination,
where violent crime against tourists is rare....Tripoli's hotels represent
a good variety of different standards, and restaurants offer interesting
culinary experiences with Arabic and international cuisine."
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- Moreover, car rentals are readily available for trips
around and outside the city. In addition, tourists manage fine in a city
where English is widely understood and spoken.
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- That was pre-March 2011 Tripoli. Today, it's a ravaged,
terrorized ghost town, its residents living under increasingly desperate
conditions. Moreover, prices skyrocketed on everything from food to fuel
to other essentials. As a result, what's ahead for residents may be too
grim to bear.
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- At the same time, a leaked document calls for UN Blue
Helmet occupation - imperial paramilitary "peacekeeper" enforcers
wherever they're deployed. Read the full document through the following
link:
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- http://www.innercitypress.com/martin1unlibya1icp.pdf
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- UN "peacekeeping" was addressed in an earlier
article, accessed through the following link:
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- http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-peacekeeping-paramilitarism.html
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- In Haiti, for example, after Washington's coup ousted
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the April 2004 Security Council authorized
MINUSTAH force prevented peace and stability by working jointly with mobilized
death squads, terrorizing Aristide supporters.
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- Libyans struggling for liberation can expect similar
treatment ahead, besides continuing rebel gang atrocities.
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- The document, in fact, calls for establishing "various
military or paramilitary formations under not always clear and solid command
and control arrangements. These include the forces that fought on (Gaddafi's)
side, (as well as) different formations commanded by or associated with
the TNC."
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- In other words, a repressive NATO-controlled militarized
presence is planned on the pretext of ensuring safety for Libyans who'll
be terrorized if they prioritize freedom over occupation.
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- In fact, on August 30, Press TV reported an unnamed NATO
official admitting that Britain and France already have troops in Libya,
claiming it's "unfair to call them NATO forces."
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- In addition, Russia's NATO ambassador, Dmitry Rogozin,
said "direct evidence" shows UK and French special forces directed
ground operations against Gaddafi's military.
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- As recently as last week, however, NATO spokeswoman Oana
Lungescu lied, saying coalition countries had no troops in Libya and wouldn't
post-conflict.
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- At the same time, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported
a UK elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment helped rebel gangs hunt for
Gaddafi. His whereabouts are still unknown. His wife Safia, daughter Aisha,
sons Mohammed and Hannibal, as well as grandchildren fled safely to Algeria.
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- A Final Comment
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- On August 29, a disgraceful New York Times editorial
headlined, "NATO's Teachable Moment," saying:
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- "The Western allies, especially the British and
French forces backed up (read led) by the United States, can be justly
proud. So can" Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama, "who ignored the naysayers
who claimed that Libya was a quagmire and the battle not worth fighting."
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- Fact check
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- Obama's war was naked imperial aggression. Continued
NATO terror bombing is Genocidal Gang Rape. Rebel cutthroats compounded
their crimes on the ground. Africa's most developed country is now its
least.
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- Thousands of Libyans are dead, many more injured, and
the entire country ravaged by mass destruction, depravation, critical life-sustaining
shortages, as well as continuing violence, and Libyans facing dystopian
futures unless they're courageous enough resist what no one should accept.
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- NATO's war on free Libya may soon end. The liberating
struggle has yet to begin. Perhaps it's the wild card NATO doesn't expect.
Hopefully the human spirit will triumph over imperial might, though never
easily or quickly.
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- It's happening in Afghanistan, reemerging in Iraq, blossoming
across the region, so perhaps Libyans will surprise NATO planners the same
way. Why not when the alternative is too intolerable to accept.
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- Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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- Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and
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