A couple of human violations in Libya:
Gaddafi's response to peaceful demonstrations
Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, estimated that 500-700 people were killed by Col. Gaddafi's security forces in February 2011, before the rebels even took up arms. “Shooting at protestors was systematic,” Mr. Moreno-Ocampo stated, discussing the Libyan government's response to the initial pro-democracy demonstrations.
Allegations of mass rape
A Libyan psychologist, Siham Sergewa, conducted a survey of refugees in Tunisia and Egypt to document the trauma of the civil war. Nearly 300 women reported having been raped. The real number is probably much higher, considering the stigma attached to rape victims in Libyan society. Every single woman in the survey who admitted to being raped, said they were raped by Col. Gaddafi's soldiers or militiamen.
The Daily Telegraph studied the case of a sixteen-year-old captured Chadian child soldier in Al-Bayda. The boy, who had previously been a shepherd in Chad, told that a Libyan man had offered him a job and a free flight to Tripoli, but in the end he had been airlifted to shoot opposition members in Eastern Libya.
According to numerous eyewitness accounts, mercenaries were more willing to kill demonstrators than Libyan forces were, and earned a reputation as among the most brutal forces employed by the regime. A doctor in Benghazi said of the mercenaries that "they know one thing: to kill whose in front of them. Nothing else. They're killing people in cold blood".
During manhunts for Gaddafi loyalists in rebel areas, numerous blacks were arrested and imprisoned or executed as mercenaries. However, the rebels later acknowledged that most of them were in reality immigrant foreign workers.
The Libyan government employed snipers, artillery, helicopter gunships, warplanes, anti-aircraft weaponry, and warships against demonstrations and funeral processions.[36] Security forces and foreign mercenaries repeatedly used firearms, including assault rifles and machine guns, as well as knives against protesters.
Military commanders summarily executed soldiers who refused to fire on protesters.[44][45] The International Federation for Human Rights reported a case where 130 soldiers were executed.[46] Some of the soldiers executed by their commanders were burned alive.
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