Civil War in Libya

[Adrian II]

I fear for the black Libyans who have found temporary respite in Tripoli. The lynch mobs are coming... and if their actions in other parts of the country are anything to go by, they'll have no mercy.

Atrocities are committed during every civil war. But incidents are often exaggerated for propaganda reasons and it is usually only afterwards that the facts can be more or less established.

I am old enough to remember the gruelling stories we were fed about the 'systematic rape' of 200.000 Bosniak women by the Serbs in the early 1990's. All in all only a few thousand rapes have been documented during the entire civil war in the former Yugoslavia and the victims were more or less evenly spread over populations.

AII
P.S. By the way Al Jazeera is much better, they have people all over Libya who are reporting around the clock. Right now Tripoli is being massively invaded, some outskirts are already in rebel hands and celebrating, three of Gaddafi's sons have been captured. It's a matter of days at most, it seems, if not hours.