2011年4月26日星期二

The United Nations team to probe abuses in Libya

  there are many reports of Libyan forces bombed the rebel-held city of Misrata indiscriminately A team is due to arrive in Tripoli to investigate allegations of violations of the human rights in Libya since the beginning of the conflict in February.

The team was appointed by the Council of the United Nations human rights after the Suppression of the Libyan Government against demonstrators.


The Government said that it will cooperate with the investigation.


Three researchers say they will seek to all allegations of violations, including those that the Government says have been committed by rebels or NATO forces.


The original mandate - to examine the human rights violations allegedly committed by the forces of the Libyan leader, colonel Muammar Gaddafi - remains the priority, says the BBC Imogen Foulkes in Geneva, where the United Nations Human Rights Council is based.


There has been reliable from enforced disappearances, torture and even assassination reports of demonstrators, says our correspondent.


End of February, the Commissioner of the human rights of the United Nations, Navi Pillay, said that what was going on in Libya "may amount to crimes against humanity".


More recently, reported that Gaddafi Col forces trying to resume the rebels Misrata are blindly bombing the city.


On Tuesday, three people were killed that missiles slammed face in the port of the city, a lifeline for those seeking to escape the bastion rebel Benghazi.

Misrata has been besieged by Government forces for two months, leaving parts of the city without electricity or water.

Snipers continued clashes and shelling prevented people from venturing outside their homes for food and medicine.


Human rights groups say more than 1,000 people have been killed in the fighting and many were injured. Ships were ferrying the injured to the hospital in Benghazi and provide humanitarian assistance.


The Libya Government denies that he was indiscriminately bombing civilian areas.


Misrata is the last rebel-held city in the West of the Libya and the fighting was fierce.


United Nations investigators are to present their findings to the Council of the rights of man in June. But their work could be overtaken by other blows, says our correspondent from Geneva.


The United Nations Security Council has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the Libya on possible charges of war crimes.

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NATO is implementing a resolution of the United Nations to protect civilians in Libya in a two-month revolt inspired by other uprisings in the Arab world.


A recent strike NATO consisting of Col. Gaddafi in Tripoli has attracted criticism in wrath of the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Poutine, which stated that the Western coalition had no mandate to kill the Libyan leader.

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has defended the strike, calling it a legitimate attack on a military command and control centre.

He spoke after a meeting in Washington with British Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who said the Libya rebels had won "momentum" on the battlefield and forces of this Col Kadhafi was on the "rear base".


British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, William Hague said output of 1500 NATO strike on the Libya had "severely degraded the military means of Gaddafi and prevented the widespread massacres planned by the forces of Gaddafi".


"They continue to be unable to enter Benghazi and it is likely that without these efforts Misrata would be fallen, with terrible consequences for this brave people."


Tuesday, the United States eased sanctions of oil against the Libya.


Move allows rebels sell their control and US oil companies to engage in transactions involving oil and petroleum products and natural gas, as long as exports benefit the opposition of the National Council of transition.

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