Photos Found in Libya Show Abuses Under Qaddafi

[The Straight Story]

Photos Found in Libya Show Abuses Under Qaddafi

ZAWIYAH, Libya — In the second-floor office of a burned-out police station here, the photographs strewn across the floor spun out the stories of the unlucky prisoners who fell into the custody of the brutal government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Some depicted corpses bearing the marks of torture. One showed scars down the back of a man dressed only in his underwear, another a naked man face down under a sheet with his hands bound. The faces of the dead bore expressions of horror. Other pictures showed puddles of blood, a table of jars, bottles and powders and, in one, a long saw.

In a labyrinthine basement, workers were clearing out burned books and files. One room contained a two-liter bottle of gin. Gesturing into another room that was kept dark, a worker mimicked a gun with his hands and murmured “Qaddafi,” suggesting it was an execution chamber.

Journalists discovered the photographs and records on an official trip to this devastated city, where Qaddafi forces battled rebels for nearly a week to retake control. They were the latest reminder of the long record of arbitrary violence against civilians that now overshadows the government’s efforts to broker an end to the international airstrikes and domestic rebellion threatening Colonel Qaddafi’s four decades in power.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/africa/06libya.html

[L0oniX]

1. Those photos are easy to get compared to possible ones from Guantanamo...

and other secret places that people have been disappeared to.

[Texasgal]

2. Disgusting

Kinda like Waterboarding and abu ghraib. :(

[riderinthestorm]

3. Was Libya one of our rendition sites? Do we have clean hands here?

I can't believe it's come to this....

[yurbud]

4. dadly, this could work. I asked my college classes how many heard about Abu Ghraib...

and at most, 2-3 raise their hands.

It's already fallen in the memory hole.

We can claim our high horse and look down our noses at others again without fear of mockery (at least at home).

[defendandprotect]

5. For what's left of "America" we must understand how TORTURE is introduced to enable dictatorships...

fascism --

This is no longer anything far away from us -- this is something our own government

has been doing!!

There are no dictatorships without TORTURE -- !!

EVER -- in all of history -- !!!

[Turborama]

6. K&R For more about what happened in Zawiyah recently....

Check out this OP: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x570593