LEST WE FORGET LIBYA

Much of the NATO media is making much of a Human Rights Watch report on the Houla massacre, in which an old woman who survived but heard her family being slaughtered says that 62 of her family were killed.

Just a few weeks ago HRW published a report into the NATO bombing of Libya.

Introduction:

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. NATO’s military campaign in Libya, from March to October 2011, was mandated by the United Nations Security Council to protect civilians from attacks by security forces of then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The number of civilian deaths from NATO air strikes in Libya was low given the extent of the bombing and duration of the campaign, however, the absence of a clear military target at seven of the eight sites Human Rights Watch visited raises concerns of possible laws-of-war violations that should be investigated.The eight air strikes that Human Rights Watch investigated resulted in 72 civilian deaths, including 20 women and 24 children.

[source : Libya: NATO Air Strikes and Civilian Deaths, Human Rights Watch, http://www.hrw.org/features/libya-nato-air-strikes-and-civilian-deaths, 14/05/2012]

So of the just 8 sites that HRW visited 7, repeat 7, did not have a military target close by.

Thanks to this kind of precision bombing an ally in the war on terror was assassinated, tens of thousands of civilians were slain, and now the al Qaeda flag flutters in the North African breeze as Islamic terrorists run the shattered husk of a once proud nation state while they torture and execute black Libyans.