against Libyans out to voice their grievances.
From Stockholm :
On Feb 21, 9:11 am, Yona Maro <oldmo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AJC is calling on the international community to condemn unequivocally
> Libya's brutal use of deadly force against those protesting the Qadhafi
> regime.
>
> AJC has been receiving regular reports in recent days of both massacres and
> execution-style killings by the Libyan government to suppress those
> demonstrating against Qadhafi's reign, which began when he seized power in
> 1969.
>
> "While there has understandably been much focus in recent weeks on the
> dramatic events in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain," said AJC Executive
> Director David Harris, "far less media attention, especially in the United
> States, has been paid to Libya, where the death toll has surpassed by far
> anything we have seen elsewhere in the region."
>
> "There has been a steady stream of reports from Tripoli, Benghazi, Misurata,
> Al-Baida, and other Libyan cities," Harris continued, "of Qadhafi-controlled
> security forces and foreign mercenaries killing hundreds of innocent people,
> including children, in cold blood, of the suppression of Internet and other
> internal means of communication and information, and of inadequate medical
> care for the wounded. These reports are alarming and must be investigated
> immediately."
>
> "We call on the international community to raise its voice loudly and
> quickly, and to make clear that such abhorrent behavior will not be
> countenanced," Harris concluded. "For starters, the Geneva-based UN Human
> Rights Council should convene a special session on the alarming situation in
> Libya. Turning a blind eye to unfolding events or conducting business as
> usual with Libya must not be options at such a moment of massive
> human-rights violations. The Libyan people are seeking, at long last, to
> exercise the right to determine their own future. That right needs to be
> supported."
>
> SOURCE American Jewish Committee
>
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