UN rights chief: world must ‘step in vigorously’ to end, punish killing of civilians in Libya
GENEVA – The U.N.’s top human rights official warned Friday that mass killings in Libya, possibly of thousands, require the world to “step in vigorously” and immediately end a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters in the North African country. As Libya faces growing diplomatic pressure from around the world, the U.N. High Commissioner spoke with the most urgency yet by a U.N. official, citing estimates that thousands may have died at the hands of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s security forces, possibly amounting to crimes against humanity. “The crackdown in Libya of peaceful demonstrations is escalating alarmingly with reported mass killings, arbitrary arrests,…
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UN rights chief: world must ‘step in vigorously’ to end, punish killing of civilians in Libya
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