Libyan rebels cage black Africans in zoo, force feed them flags

[Krieglord]

those loveable huggable libyan rebels are at their antics once more

http://rt.com/news/libya-rebels-torture-africans-679/

A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag.
*“Eat the flag, you dog. Patience you dog, patience. God is Great,” screams a voice off-camera in the video uploaded to YouTube last week, which also made its way onto LiveLeak.com.
The torturers are also shown making the group of captive black Africans stand up with pieces of green cloth still in their mouths and apparently forcing them start jumping.

A number of people are shown standing outside the cage watching the atrocity.

After Muammar Gaddafi was killed, hundreds of migrant workers from neighboring states were imprisoned by fighters allied to the new interim authorities.

They accuse the black Africans of having been mercenaries for the late ruler.
In the course of the fighting to topple Gaddafi last year, sub-Saharan African migrants and refugees “became targets of stigma, discrimination and violence,” the human rights group Amnesty International said last month.

“At the beginning of the crisis, there was vastly exaggerated propaganda for which the highest level of the National Transitional Council should take some responsibility because they largely contributed to that unfounded propaganda,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty’s senior crisis response advisor.

Some of the black migrants managed to flee into neighboring Mali and Niger, but more than 5,000 were detained. They face mass execution, beatings, and revenge killings, according to an Al Jazeera report published back in September.

Before the Libyan uprising broke out, the country hosted about a million black African workers, many of them employed in domestic work, construction, trash collection and other low-wage jobs.
Human Rights Investigations (HRI) suspect Libyan rebels of ethnic cleansing of the black population of the country, particularly in the city of Tawergha.

[Ó Cathasaigh]

Libya was one big ass mistake.

[Phalanx300]

And yet I still wonder why Gadaffi had to go.

[Krieglord]

And yet I still wonder why Gadaffi had to go.

He wanted gold for oil?

[Phalanx300]

He wanted gold for oil?

And the new government gives it away for free?

Maybe it's just me, but this sounds kind of racist.

Thinking its racist on its own is pretty racist.

[Sphere]

Thinking its racist on its own is pretty racist.

Darn, being a white American I guess my latent racism forces me to see things from a racial perspective.

I'm apologize.

[Tiberios]

Horrible if true, but then again the source is RT. So I won't jump to conclusions just yet.

[selder]

And the new government gives it away for free?

No they will accept the dollar. I think the key word was Gold.

Thinking its racist on its own is pretty racist.

Their have been quite a few stories coming out of Lybia suggesting some blatant hostility towards black Lybians. It does warrant some attention if you ask me, as we should be doing everything we can to get Lybia back on its feet.

[Sphere]

Their have been quite a few stories coming out of Lybia suggesting some blatant hostility towards black Lybians. It does warrant some attention if you ask me, as we should be doing everything we can to get Lybia back on its feet.

Racism in the Arab world?! I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen. Arabs are slightly brown after all, so they wouldn't mistreat their "guest workers".

[Astaroth]

First of all, RT as a source. RT is THE international Russian propaganda channel.

Secondly, the logic here is majorly flawed. It essentially goes as follows:

Rebels do bad stuff --> Gadaffi was better --> the West is evil/wrong/bad for helping the rebels

Why is that flawed? Simple. Just because some rebels make mistakes this does not make a dictatorship better. Of course a new government or whatever can be a mess at first, of course extremists might be elected. But this does NOT somehow make Gadaffi "better" or the West "bad" for helping the rebels.

But jumping on the TEH WEST IS EVILZ bandwagon is of course much simpler.

[The Despondent Mind]

First of all, RT as a source. RT is THE international Russian propaganda channel.

Secondly, the logic here is majorly flawed. It essentially goes as follows:

Rebels do bad stuff --> Gadaffi was better --> the West is evil/wrong/bad for helping the rebels

Why is that flawed? Simple. Just because some rebels make mistakes this does not make a dictatorship better. Of course a new government or whatever can be a mess at first, of course extremists might be elected. But this does NOT somehow make Gadaffi "better" or the West "bad" for helping the rebels.

If i understood your logic good then if the dictator does some mistakes does that makes rebels better ?

[Astaroth]

If i understood your logic good then if the dictator does some mistakes does that makes rebels better ?

Dictatorship is wrong, period. Just because a few rebels mess up or because the beginning is shaky, doesn't discredit the fact that dictatorship was wrong and that it was good to overthrow it.

[nein]

you can learn much from these men Chernov

[6644kp]

That's just epic

Heinz would be pleased.

[Kitsunegari]

Dictatorship is wrong, period. Just because a few rebels mess up or because the beginning is shaky, doesn't discredit the fact that dictatorship was wrong and that it was good to overthrow it.

Sorry but simple platitudes about dictatorship don't justify playing god in another country's affairs. For all we know this could end up in a worse dictatorship.

[The Despondent Mind]

Dictatorship is wrong, period. Just because a few rebels mess up or because the beginning is shaky, doesn't discredit the fact that dictatorship was wrong and that it was good to overthrow it.

Who made you God to judge what kind of rule is wrong or good ?

[T. Brutus]

Who made you God to judge what kind of rule is wrong or good ?

Reason and arguments?

[Phier]

Expecting left wing protest in 3...2.. oh wait Obama, never mind.

[Sphere]

Maybe it's just me, but this sounds kind of racist.

[alhoon]

Maybe it's just me, but this sounds kind of racist.

It doesn't have to do with their color, it has to do that many of the mercenaries used by Gaddafi, that killed and pillaged were Subsaharan Africans. The not-that-civilized parts of the rebels decided to just make all of them pay for those other black africans.