Accused NATO of committing war crimes in Libya

Select the NATO civilian sites as military targets


The Independent published a new report the content of a number of organizations of civil society after the mission in Libya provides a basis for charges of war crimes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during his mission there.According to the report published by human rights groups that the Middle East there is evidence that war crimes and human rights violations committed by all parties, NATO and the rebels and forces loyal to Gaddafi in the Libyan uprising last year.Published report Thursday on the Arab Organization for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the International Legal Alliance support.And includes the results of an intensive effort to fact-finding mission to Libya carried out by experts of law and crime, although the report confirms that the results are not final, but it adds to concerns about abuses by all sides in the conflict.According to eyewitness accounts and field visits to the sites targeted by NATO bombing report says the task of civil society during the operations that NATO considered some of the sites of civil military targets.The UN Security Council, the UN identified the NATO mission in Libya to protect civilians from attacks by the Gaddafi regime during the uprising against his rule last year.According to the Independent famous incident took place in Sirte, as narrated by eyewitnesses that the civilians had gathered around the place by a missile, killing another bombing killed 47 civilians and then in September.The Independent commented that both these events to reach the level of war crimes or not, detected more than embarrassment of NATO, which was confirmed that the aim of his mission is to protect civilians from murder.The International Criminal Court said on the tongue of the chief prosecutor last November that he will investigate the practices of NATO forces along with the rebels and forces loyal to the system to make sure not to violate the laws of war.Independent and re-reference to the rejection of the UN secretary general last year that have exceeded the limits of NATO's mission in Libya.The report quotes as well as abuses by the former opposition forces allied with the Transitional National Assembly, including the evidence of murder, torture and arrest of those who were loyal to the former regime.The paper quotes the report the incident forced displacement of the suspect in that they are "enemies of the revolution," particularly in the town of Toariqh near Sirte, which it reports that it has become the "City of Habah" after the expulsion of about 30 thousand of the population from their homes in what looked a process of collective punishment carried out by militants opposed to Gaddafi."Inventing the AIDS"The Daily Telegraph published a report on what it describes as a scratch from the new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.The paper says that after his claim that the attacks of September 11 in America was planned locally and saying Israel must be wiped off, claiming the Iranian president said Western countries invented the AIDS virus to weaken the third world and open new markets for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products.According to the report, Ahmadinejad said that African countries were told falsely that the source of the epidemic is immoral practices but did not prove that those acts were committed in areas where the epidemic appeared.The report cites Iran's president as saying: "It is clear that he went to plunder the wealth and resources of African countries, the Great Powers behind the development of these diseases so that you can from the sale of medicines produced by poor countries."And transmits the report of the telegraph from the Iranian Health Minister Fatima and only saying that the profit margin from Iran, oil production does not exceed 5 percent of the selling price while the profit margin of pharmaceutical companies of the sale price of any drug in the range of 20 percent.Currency swapThe Financial Times published a report to the correspondent of Abu Dhabi for a currency swap agreement between China and the UAE with more than $ 5.5 billion in the framework of strengthening economic relations between the two countries.The agreement was signed during the visit of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf tour includes three countries.The agreement provides for the possibility of central banks to withdraw the value of barter trade transactions between the renminbi and the dirham.And China held a national currency swap agreements with 10 other countries in an attempt to reduce reliance on the dollar in foreign trade exchanges.And that these agreements were intended to rule out that the liquidity obstacle stands in front of commercial exchanges between China and the countries that held currency swap agreements with them.The Financial Times report says that Gul Wayne is not only aimed at strengthening economic and trade relations, but also target the energy sector in the GCC.Perhaps the Beijing eye on oil concessions, which will be awarded by Emirates in 2014 when the term of the current privileges.Analysts polled by Asahev opinions that companies in Asia, particularly China, will be a strong contender for the Western companies that have oil concessions, such as the UAE is currently Dech Royal Shell, Exxon Mobi and BP and Total.
Source: BBC Arabic