Though Muammar al-Gaddafi was as recently as early 2011 a friend of the West, co-operating with the British and Americans in particular on security issues as well as opening up the Libyan economy to corporate interests, (read all about that here), his list of crimes against opposition to his rule extending back decades are well known to the Libyan people well before his attempts to crush the uprisings in Benghazi. He is the latest in a list of Western allies to find themselves discarded onto the trash heap of history once their “allies” realised that their interests could no longer be served by them, joining Mubarak, Ben Ali and Saddam Hussein.
With the killing of Gaddafi confirmed by the head of the military council of Tripoli, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, the following is a list of a few of the crimes well before the uprisings began that he was answerable to. Though he was answerable to all these before the current uprisings, his regime had become a reliable ally of the West who not only knew full well about his human rights abuses, but used his apparatus for their own means as well. These are just a few of his crimes, while the actual number and details of the full extent of his abuses are much more.
a. Thousands killed while in prison, either as a result of torture, or deliberate mass killing of prisoners due to their Islamic inclinations and opposition to the Gaddafi regime, most famously the massacre at Abu Salim prison in 1996. Mass graves thought to be holding more than 1000 of the victims have been uncovered since the downfall of the Gaddafi regime.
b. Co-operation with the United States and Britain in the torture and rendition of opposition figures, including current prominent figures of the opposition.
c. Public Executions of Civilians in the 1980′s, by way of example -
1 – Omar Ali Debub (teacher and the university students participated in the demonstrations in January 1976): executed by hanging on 6 April 1977 in front of the Socialist Union building in Benghazi
2 – Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Tayeb (teacher and the university students participated in the demonstrations in January 1976): executed by hanging on 6 April 1977 in front of the Socialist Union building in Benghazi
3 – Ahmed Fouad Fathallah (an Egyptian): executed by hanging on 6 April 1977 the port of Benghazi Sea
4 – Saleh Ali al-Zarouk Al-Nawal (teacher): April 1982 was executed in prison
5 – Mohammed Muhatthab Ihfaf (college student) (due to membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir): Hanged on April 7, 1983 in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tripoli
6 – Nimr Khaled Khamis (Palestinian teacher) (due to membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir): Executed by hanging in front of students on 7 April 1983 al-Fatih secondary school in Ajdabiyya
7 – Nasser Mohammad Sares (Palestinian teacher) – (due to membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir): Executed by hanging in front of students on 7 April 1983 al-Fatih secondary school in Ajdabiyya
8 – Ali Ahmed Awadallah (Palestinian teacher) – (due to membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir): Executed by hanging in front of students on 7 April 1983 al-Fatih secondary school in Ajdabiyya
9 – Hasan Bader Al Badi (Palestinian teacher) – (due to membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir): Executed by hanging in front of students on 7 April 1983 al-Fatih secondary school in Ajdabiyya
11 – Hassan Ahmad al-Kurdi (student) -(due to membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir): April 1984 was executed in prison
12 – Abdullah Abu al-Qasim Msallati (student) – (due to membership of Hizb ut Tahrir): April 1984 executed secretly in prison without trial
13 – Rashid Mansour Kaabar (college student) – it was claimed that he was from the followers of Sheikh Al-Bishti – executed by hanging on 16 April 1984 in Tripoli, Faculty of Pharmacy
14 – Hafidh al-Madani (college student): executed by hanging on 16 April 1984 at the Faculty of Agriculture
15 – Mustafa al-Nouweiri: executed by hanging on 21 April 1984 at the University of Benghazi
d. Assassinations carried out abroad in the 1980′s, by way of example:
1 – Mohamed Mustafa Ramadan (radio reporter, apparently due to his membership of Hizb ut Tahrir): 11 April 1980 he was assassinated outside the mosque after Friday prayers in London
2 – Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Nafi (lawyer): 21 April 1980, was assassinated in Britain
3 – Arif Abdul Jalil (businessman): 19 April 1980, was assassinated in Rome
4 – Abdul Latif alMuntasir (businessman): 21 April 1980, was assassinated in Beirut
5 – Gabriel Abdel Razek al-Dinaly (a police officer and a popular poet): 6 April 1985, was assassinated in Bonn, Germany
Related Articles
Share
About Author
(8) Readers Comments
Leave a Reply
The Rochdale Grooming Case Confronted
A well articulated and thought provoking piece of writing. I agree, th
An open letter to Rashid al Ghannouchi
I think the ending would have been much better if the writer avoided t
khuram imtiaz
well maybe you should start writing about the atrocities committed by W Bush, Tony Blair, and benjamin nitanyahu. I dont know who you people are fooling.
RP
Perhaps you didn’t read the piece – it clearly highlights that some of his crimes were carried out with the complicity of the Western nations. Being anti-Gaddafi does not equal being pro-West. Just the opposite in fact given he was so close to the West up until the uprisings began.
In addition, it is clear you have not read anything else on this site – which is well known to be very vocal and clear in its condemnation of the actions Bush, Blair, Netanyahu, Obama and others.
Pingback: In Memory of the Criminal Gaddafi - A list of his crimes
Pingback: Qadafi has been killed by the Rebellions...! - Page 6 - CSS Forums
Muhammed Shareef
MashAllah good quick find. He clearly had some major issues with any opposing islamic ideas that went against him and his ‘green book’ and mainly Hizb ut Tahrir.
As for khuram imtiaz, clearly you’re just trolling without even looking at the other articles on this site.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
Ma’salam.
fatooti
SubanAllah, really do you think the new regime will be somewhat better are we going to shortly hear that some of your party member shabab have been involved with these ‘new romantics’ brandishing guns killing, looting and raping whilst shouting Allahu Akbar. Yes Gaddafi was a tyrant your role should be to remind those who living what they should/shouldn’t be doing. I don’t see that anywhere on this site. So you must think its OK to lynch and kill black Libyans to rape to steal and to display the body of a sodomized dead tyrant for 5 days and you list your former members who have died. Outrageous I thought more of you as a party than that. And just for the record my relative is one of the above named people
RP
First of all – highlighting the tyranny of Gaddafi does not justify any wrong doings against innocents. To draw the parallel between the two is infantile and insincere. To claim that listing the atrocities of Gaddafi equates to support for attacks upon Africans who were not mercenaries is very cheap.
At the same time I personally state that his killing is something to be celebrated by all people, as he was a criminal to the people of the region, to the Muslim opposition, and most important to the religion he professed and betrayed (by his denial of the practise of the Prophet).
As for not talking about the solutions – I imagine then you haven’t read this article:
http://www.newcivilisation.com/home/middle-east/libyan-opposition-any-lessons-from-egypt
Which for example states:
“The Libyan revolution has seen bloodshed for real rather than cosmetic change, and it is for the Islamic opposition to meet the Islamic aspirations of the people with sincerity and precision or step aside, as this would be better in the long run rather than the people being mislead and deceived by a politically naive and co-opted opposition.”
That was just one of several articles on Libya.
Or this article on Turkey which makes it plain that the turkish model mooted from Libya/ Egypt is not appropriate:
http://www.newcivilisation.com/home/international-affairs/deciphering-the-turkish-model-of-government
“Turkey does not represent a new model of governance; it is in reality as secular and national interest driven as the nations of the West. As the Arab spring continues to take shape, what the region needs is not another Capitalist secular state with some Islamic rules but is largely secular in nature.”
Or this one explaining the call for a Caliphate:
http://www.newcivilisation.com/home/islamic-civilisation/realising-a-caliphate
These are just a few examples just to highlight a simple point – what you have written is inaccurate.
Please look around the site, before trolling just like the first poster.
Pingback: LIbya Links « Little Richardjohn