RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - libya and mercenaries

Thanks a heap for this piece, Mwalimu Harrow. Le Monde's acknowledgment is too little too late. When those of us who know folks on the ground and Al-Jazeera reported that these racist Arab Libyans hate Afrikans/Blacks so much that one of their agenda to subject them to a Holocaust, which they had already began, we were dismissed as Ghaddafi puppets. But as the saying goes, the truth can never be hidden forever. But, Insha'Allah, those racist Arab Libyans and their equally racist supporters in the US, France and Britain will not triumph.


> [Original Message]
> From: kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu>
> To: usaafricadialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Date: 6/24/2011 7:24:54 AM
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - libya and mercenaries
>
> in today's Le Monde there is an important article citing the amnesty
> international researcher donatella rovera. she investigated the claims
> about "african," i .e., subsaharan black african mercenaries paid to
> fight for ghaddafi. her conclusion was that that claim is very largely
> overstated, more of a propaganda claim than one based on any substantial
> evidence. those who had been held by the rebels on those grounds were
> gradually released on the basis that they were recruited workers, not
> fighters. and there is a report of such an individual being maltreated
> and hung, and 5 chadians being set on fire in benghazi.
> there have been expressions of concern about human rights abuses from
> the un council of human rights (french representative mattei). racist
> sentiments were apparently inflamed. apparently both sides have used
> sentiments against subsaharan workers, identified by their skin color
> and national origin.
> ken
>
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