Thursday, December 15, 2011

Meanwhile in Libya

Muammar Gaddafi's daughter has asked the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) whether an investigation has been launched into the killing of her father and brother.

Aisha Gaddafi's lawyer Nick Kaufman said on Wednesday that he had written to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asking for more information on the October 20 killing of the former Libyan leader and his son Motassim.

  alJazeera
Hey wait. Wasn’t the new democratically elected rebel force and interim governing body supposed to be investigating this? I wonder how that’s going.

I see that sanctions are going to be lifted from the Libyan central bank, that in Benghazi, people are protesting the NTC (which promised to decentralize power – yeah, sure), that Qadafi’s captured son will not be turned over to the Hague, and that there are ongoing turf wars amongst rival militias near Tripoli (including the Western-recognized “ruling” group NTC – apparently not every Libyan has similarly recognized them – imagine that) in which the NTC’s chief military commander (called by the West commander-in-chief of the Libyan national army) was attacked but survived. But I cannot find what is happening with the NTC’s investigation into Qadafi’s murder. Whatever can that mean?

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