United States of Africa 2017 Project Taskforce
2011 September 16
President Barack Obama
The White House
Dear Mr. Obama:
As you are aware, credible allegations of war crimes have been made against the National Transitional Council. At least one hundred thousand people are now known to have been slaughtered in the Libyan conflict.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other independent organizations have collected evidence to warrant a criminal investigation into torture and summary executions committed by the NTC. In recent days, three mass graves were discovered and many more are expected to be found.
A substantial number of the one hundred thousand civilians slaughtered in Libya were sub-Saharan immigrant workers that had nothing to do with the conflict. Without proof, the NTC accused them of being mercenaries for Col. Gaddafi.
We lodged a complaint with the NTC through its Washington representative. They agreed to put us on the phone with their prison officials in Benghazi to verify that sub-Saharan immigrants they had arrested were safe and would be given a fair trial.
The NTC has since failed to account for all the poor sub-Saharan immigrant workers they rounded up during the war. The mass graves that have been found contained dark-skinned bodies that bore evidence of torture.
Given what we know thus far about the involvement of the NTC in war crimes against the civilian population, including ethnic cleansing against poor black immigrant workers from sub-Saharan Africa, we find next week's meeting between you and so-called interim PM Mustafa Abdul Jalil very obnoxious and objectionable.
The United States of Africa 2017 Project Taskforce asks you to cancel your meeting with Mr. Jalil. It is contemptible for the president of the United States of America to give audience to the leader of a terrorist and racist organization that has committed, and continues to, commit crimes against humanity.
We demand that the US arrest Mr. Jalil upon his arrival in the so-called global champion of human rights.
Sincerely,
Bosire Mosi
Director of Communications
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