you have made up your mind ahead of time; i try to keep mine open.
the article in the guardian had a link to an article of a couple of weeks ago in the times that reported the troubling acts of both sides.
you can read it below. one part of it says,
"Colonel Farnana said that some rebels had been arrested and punished for these crimes. His claim could not immediately be confirmed.
Rebel conduct in the war has been mixed. Many captured pro-Qaddafi soldiers have received medical treatment in rebel hospitals and have been kept in detention centers that nongovernment organizations have been allowed to visit.
But Colonel Qaddafi’s soldiers have also been beaten at the point of capture, and some have been shot, including several prisoners in the besieged city of Misurata who were shot through the feet, either as a punishment or as a means to prevent escape.
Rebels have also been seen by journalists repeatedly firing makeshift rocket launchers indiscriminately into territory or towns held by the Qaddafi forces.
Such rebels actions, however, have paled next to the abuses of Colonel Qaddafi’s forces, which have fired on unarmed demonstrators and used artillery, rocket batteries and mortars against many rebel-held cities and towns.
Phones taken from dead or wounded soldiers have yielded images that strongly suggested that some of Colonel Qaddafi’s units have executed detainees.
The colonel’s forces have also ransacked and looted homes and businesses on many fronts throughout the war.
Rebels repeatedly cited the army’s abuses when discussing the ransacking of the recently looted towns."
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| Subject: | NYTimes.com: Libyan Rebels Accused of Pillage and Beatings |
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| Date: | Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:37:27 -0400 |
| From: | harrow@msu.edu |
| Reply-To: | harrow@msu.edu |
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-- kenneth w. harrow professor of english michigan state university department of english east lansing, mi 48824-1036 ph. 517 803 8839 harrow@msu.edu
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