‘The Dust Hasn’t Settled Yet’: U.N. Human Rights Office Wants a Probe into Gadhafi’s Death
- Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:10am by
Billy Hallowell
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GENEVA (The Blaze/AP) — The U.N. human rights office called Friday for an investigation into the death of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was captured alive by rebel forces in his hometown of Sirte before shaky amateur footage showed fighters standing over his bloodied body.
“We believe there is a need for an investigation,” said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. “More details are needed to ascertain whether he was killed in some form of fighting or was executed after his capture.”
“The two cell phone videos that have emerged, one of him alive, and one of him dead, taken together are very disturbing,” he told reporters in Geneva.
The Blaze reported on these videos yesterday. The clips appear to show Gadhafi both bloodied and injured just minutes before his death. Here’s one of the clips:
And here’s the other:
A Libyan official said Friday that the burial of Gadhafi has been delayed until his death can be examined by the International Criminal Court – though it was not immediately clear if he was referring to a look at the dictator’s body or a probe into what led to his death.
The U.N. Human Rights Council established an independent panel earlier this year to investigate abuses in Libya, and Colville said it would likely examine the circumstances of the 69-year-old leader’s death.
He said it was too early to say whether the panel – which includes Canadian judge Philippe Kirsch, the first president of the International Criminal Court – would recommend a formal investigation at the national or international level.
“The dust hasn’t settled yet,” Colville told The Associated Press when asked if Libya was capable of conducting an independent probe into the death.
“You can’t just chuck the law out of the window,” he added. “Killing someone outside a judicial procedure, even in countries where there is the death penalty, is outside the rule of law.”
Colville said the victims of Gadhafi’s despotic 42-year-rule deserved to see proper judicial procedures followed and perpetrators of abuses brought to trial, a process he said could be “cathartic” for the new Libya.
“Of course there are many others apart from Col. Gadhafi, so there may at least be some kind of court proceedings where we do all learn what happened and who is responsible,” he said.
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Comments (115)
TRILO
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:57amUnfortunately we have created a bigger mess and a more volitile state then when Gahdafi was in control: civil war, tribal conflict, “rebels” with terrorists links in charge, Islamists wanting to take control, etc, etc. Egypt and Tunisa have not turned out so great either.
This administration and government, including the Republicans are he!! bent on creating chaos across the globe. Have you noticed not a peep from the Republicans on our combat troops in Uganda and soon to be extended mission across the African continent.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:20amThis is what “democracy” looks like administered by NATO.
No trial, no conviction, no judge, no jury. A hellfire missile from 50,000 ft, and turned over into the hands of Al Qaeda rebels to be executed on the side of the road and dragged through the street.
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:36amAnother example of Obama mania. Take out Mubarak – State Dept. and Google exec. pre-planning involved in that one; take out Gadhafi – U.S. drones, piloted aircraft, foreign aircraft, NATO, which is basically American controlled, weaponry and money. Alleged spontaneous Arab Spring led and instigated – a pile of BS just like The Occupy Wall Street and it’s ancillaries. Result: more likely than not Muslim Brotherhood eventual control in both countries. The Caliphite-in-Chief, “my Muslim faith”, Mr. Muslim himself sits back with relish and glee as he accomplishes another of his fiendish objectives.
And the beat goes on. Nice job, Mr. John McCain, you spineless, limp noodled collaborator.
Report Post »KTsayz
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:43amYou are so right. NATO was complicit and should also be held accountable. I will never understand why NATO and BO started this war. There’s no way those animals would ever become reliable oil trading partners. My only thought is that they somehow want the caliphate to happen, but for what purpose?
Report Post »Boehner has turned out much worse than I expected. We need to replace all the RINOs in Congress in 2012.
Vechorik
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:47amBlaze said drone got him, but this video proves someone there was saying “don’t kill him, don’t kill him, we need him alive”
Report Post »http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/dont_kill_gaddafi.html
Jezcruzen
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:52amObama, grinning as some of his associate idiots slap his back in congratulations, violated Executive Order 12333, which prohibits anyone representing the US to participate in assassination of heads of state. Obama should be charged and investigated by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and tried. The House should begin impeachment proceedings.
Report Post »IntransigentMind
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:53amAin’t that the truth? We went from having a semi-stable state to utter chaos. So what happened to those missiles?
Report Post »http://markamerica.com/2011/10/21/gaddafi-dead-but-what-will-be-the-blowback/
TXMD
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 11:18amI was raised in a foreign land (The United States of America in the 50‘s and 60’s) in which the RULE OF LAW and the Glory of the U.S. Constitution were taught at all levels and “preserved, protected, and defended” by all elected representatives of the government and its citizens. I am sad at the rejoicing of the murder of an albeit nasty/evil person. It was a brutal murder that was done outside of the RULE OF LAW. A trial or some form of judicial action followed by whatever consequence the law decided would have been the American/proper thing to do. REJOICING or approving of the brutality of a mob action places our elected leaders and others who share that feeling into a box no different from that which was occupied by the object of their glee. I pray for the soul of America. I pray for us all for the consequences which will stem from the choices we have made in our plunging moral behavior. I see the results of this plunge every day in Emergency medicine.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:59pmThis is some sick stuff. Makes me sick to my stomach! It is as far away from the ideals of my Founding Fathers as the East is from the West!
The old saying of when you sow to the wind you may reap a whirlwind couldn’t be more true.. We are doing unprecedented things across this globe and it makes me sick to my stomach to think of how evil and wicked the dogs are that running DC on both sides of the aisle.. Primarily Ds but both sides. We may not reap it but I can assure you that our children and grandchildren will.. May God have mercy on their souls!
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:45pmObama and his administration are murderers! What goes round comes round! God is so unhappy with this sick world!
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 1:28amSo…basically…you folks calling Obama a murderer agree with Minister Farrakhan on this issue!
Watch it! You may be personally attacked by some frothing-at-the-mouth warmongering neocon on the Blaze who wants to praise Obama for continuing Neocon Bush’s “preemptive war” strategy under the Liberal Obama’s guise of “humanitarian aid”!
Anyone for a nice, boiling-hot cup of cognitive dissonance?
Report Post »Rached Madcow SHOW
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:53amThose UN guys are thinking, “Am I next”?
To that, I would answer “We can only hope”!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:01amWith those drones ANYONE against the Obama Administration could be next. If he can say that there was an American who is a terrorist and kill him, you or I could be next too because we want to be free from this opressive Government. All they have to do is declare the Tea Party or Conservative enemy combatants. Far fetched? Not with these Marxists in charge…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:10am@DustyLuv
Indeed, the door for Presidential sanctioned assassination of anyone – citizen of the US or not – is now fully open and crossed over. Now how much do you want to figure that the UN will blame either or both the nations of Israel and America for the execution of Quaddafi?
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:26amI hope they bring Oamaa up on war crime charges myself to end this lunacy. Also…why don’t we remove Obama from office for MURDER???
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:42amWhere the heck are those Code Pink and MoveOn loonies to protest this murder in the White House??
(crickets)
That’s what I thought. They won’t criticize this president because they worship him. How’s that Cult of Personality working out for ya, eh? Disillusioned with your messiah yet? Oh, and the other reason they won‘t criticize him is because he’s black. And we all know what you are if you criticize this particular mulatto, don’t we?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:20am@Dustyluv @Snowleopard Really is that how you felt about the Patriot Act..??
Report Post »nonamesleft
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:01pm@Jrook
As for comparing this to the patriot act….
Really you do not see the difference between murdering an American Citizen and the patriot act?
I do not agree with the patriot act but here is the difference.
1. The patriot act was a bill then voted on in the house = passed, then voted on in the senate = passed then signed into LAW.
2. Obama had his administration murder an American citizen. Did not get approval from anyone but his cronies. It was not a bill and not voted on.
The difference is I want my congressmen and senators to here from me when they vote on something i disagree with. I hope you can see the difference.
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:40amSomeone needs to investigate the UN.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:37amWhy are we still associated with this organization? The U.N. is a travesty. The “law” is what the leaders of a particular country says it is. Dictators have been taking people out and shooting them for years and the U.N. says nothing. Frankly I think that what the U.N. is worried about is the fact that it was a dictator who was killed. Isn’t Iran now or was the head of the Human Rights commission of the U.N.? That says it all.
Report Post »mad_hatter
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:24amThey killed him in a lynch mob, there was no crossfire, here is the latest video to show some beg not to shoot him, they needed him alive: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/dont_kill_gaddafi.html
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:33amNeeded Qaddafi alive? For what?
Report Post »amsmith41974
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:11amAm i the only person that finds this disturbing? The horrifying video not withstanding, I understand that he was a murderous villain, but this doesn’t justify more murderous actions. What is to stop these rebels from taking this same action against anyone that disagrees with their new political agenda? I feel the whole chain of events is symbolic of what’s happening in our country, the mob or pack mentality is very contagious and only ever ends in violence. The left can make any claims they want, but Saddam Hussein was at least tried by a court in his country by people who attempted to appear structured organized and backed by the law. Even if it’s only an illusion, under Bush we had trials and now under Obama we have lynchings and mob justice.
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:47pmThis is just sick!
Report Post »Profx72
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:20amThis is why the UN and our support of the “Libyan Revolution” is such a farce. We seem to have forgotten that THIS is what “Democracy” looks like. Without the “Rule of Law” by enforcing the Constitution, when the majority of the “People” want someone dead, they’re DEAD! Shooting him in the face was just the most efficient and economical means to that end. I mean, seriously: did you expect him to get a FAIR TRIAL? Don’t misunderstand me: “Mo” Gadhafi was a monster, but let’s be honest about it – what will come from this Revolution will not be a “Pro-American” modern 21st Century Republic that offers peace, tranquility and opportunity for its people and an open relationship with the rest of the world. (This comment has been brought to you by the letter “S” for SHARIA!)
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lovenfl3
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:29amI‘m still trying to figure out Obama’s doctrine. He‘s against so called torture because he says it’s not what America is all about. He was going to shut down Gitmo because that is also considered torture in his eyes. Yet somehow, murdering these people seems to be fair and just. Can someone on the left help me out on this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouyNzCfsAq4
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:14amOh boy, the U.N. is on the case…they’ll get to the bottom of this. What is there to investigate U.N.? Another U.N. excercize in futility.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:28amAll I could think of with K-Dog’s “ Bill Clinton” finger photo above was :
“ One is the loneliest number you can ever do”
Probably about 100 of the UN’s Despot Leaders are looking at themselves being where K-Dog is now. Assuming room temperature.
Report Post »onegodinkansas
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:12am“you can’t just chuck the rule of law out the window”. This is what democracy looks like. Sad that our troops must read terrorists their Miranda rights, act only in an “advisory role”, & operate in a “self-defense” mode in our various police actions around the world while these 7th century throw-backs summarily dispatch whomever they please.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:30amYup, the U.N. armed, enabled, encouraged and assisted these Libyan ‘Freedom’ fighters and are therefore accomplices and hold a full share of guilt for any and all ‘war’ crimes committed by them. “You can’t just chuck the law out of the window,”
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:12amInternational Criminal Court ? U.N. Human Rights Council ? It was under cover of the U.N. that Qaddafi and his gang was attacked. One or more exuberant ‘Freedom’ fighters put a slug in his head. Was anyone expecting a different outcome? And why would anyone care?
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:11amThe UN human rights office needs to investigate the Nobel Peace Price winner, Barack Hussein Obama. What a hypocritical joke this is. Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad to see Gadhafi assassinated and drug through the streets. He deserved a long and painful death and deserves an eternity in Hell, no doubt. If Bush had done the same thing, the liberal left kooks would be screaming bloody murder. Watch how these in the tank morons suddenly become silent now.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:25amSilent? The MSM are already calling Gaddy‘s death a major ’foreign policy victory’ for Obama, something to ‘silence’ his critics.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:09amI want a probe into the death of the UN! That would necessitate the death of said UN, but that would work too!
Report Post »Miami
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:06amIt’s time to let the UN find a new home
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:58amAnd here comes the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND MORE CIVIL WAR. What the dummycraps and rinos tried to setup to END ISRAEL HAS BACKFIRED BIG TIME. The muslim mofos are on fire and killing each other. ISRAEL IS JUST SITTING BACK AND LAUGHING. God, thank you for MAKING LIBERALS SO STUPID. LOL.
Report Post »repup
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:10amI wonder how it feels to be the unpopular leader of a sovereign country when a friend of a more powerful country encourages and supports your overthrow.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:46amHere is the video of Bush proclaiming a “ New World Order ” …. http://youtu.be/Rc7i0wCFf8g …The Libyan invasion reveals the true nature of the NWO as a Canaanite babylonian magic cult fixated on the countries of the 33 degree parallel . The NWO is restoring the ancient ways of Baal religious worship , offering mass murder human sacrifices to their Devil god at specific coordinates of the globe … http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2005/12dec/33rdsacrifice.gif ….It is not a random coincidence BOTH the Iraq war and Libyan war were launched under the March 19th full moon “ Ides of March” It is the date Julius Caesar was assassinated and clear proof our world is governerned by a Diobolical cult of thieves , liars, and murderers.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:00amYour Dr. said this would happen if you stopped taking your medicine.
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:37amTry to get out more, ok? o.O
Report Post »poster
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:44am“You can’t just chuck the law out of the window.”
Oh, really?? You’re dealing with Obama here. Laws have no meaning. Vacations have meaning.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:41amExecutive Orders…Czars..
Report Post »Marine 1
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 12:15pmAbsolutely right! And who gives a crap what the U.N. thinks anyway. They need to be thrown out of the United States anyway. They’re useless except for stealing our money.
As for Qaddafi — he was no longer useful to the U.S. CIA and Department of State anyway. People need to wake up regarding the “corporate games” being played in North Africa and other regions of the world.
Geopolitics ain’t what it used to be. Let me be so bold as to say that the U.S. military is being used as corporate police and they’re doing the bidding of those with the money and power. Just ask troops about KBR and other businesses ripping the American people off everyday in combat zones.
A Marine Gunnery Sergeant (E-7), a friend of mine, observed brand new trucks blown up over flat tires. That’s what cost-plus contracts will do for the American taxpayer. How many of us could have used a nice “surplus” vehicle for a myriad of purposes?
We‘ve been had for a long time now and it’s time for this crap to stop. The American taxpayers have nothing else to give the big bankers and corporations. I’m telling young people to avoid the military like the plague. Our youth should not be pawns for corporations.
Report Post »THE EQUALIZER
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:39amGod willing a similar fate will befall the tyrants screwing the American people!
Report Post »yancie
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:38amImadildohead, in Iran better take note wink wink, Saddam, Bin Ladin, Qaddafi …. And OWE-Baaaaaaama didn’t do any of these. These things were in the making before he pimp walked his way into the White House to take a four year vacation.
Report Post »JokerWatcher
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:36amU.N. Human Rights Office Wants a Probe into Gadhafi’s Death.
Report Post »GO PROBE SAND-!
yancie
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:34amAnd when Qaddafi was killing people you could hear crickets at the UN cricket cricket,The UN needs to be removed from American soil. ASAP
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:32amThey may issue a letter of stern reprimand.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:03amOr a harshly worded petition!
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:18amThe UN stands for UNimportant.
Report Post »PissOnLiberals
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:31amAnd where was the U.N. Human Rights Office when Daniel Pearl was beheaded and the Fogel family was murdered?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:04am@Yougotta
I doubt it. It’s pretty hard to even begin contemplating taking down a 100 million man army, even if you’re the Chinese.
Report Post »TwoLazy
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:30amLMBFBO – UN? Human Rights? Unbelievable!
Have you had Enough of the UN yet?
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:36amThey flew the planes into the wrong building !
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:53amAnd if you do not wake up these thugs and thieves that pilage the world are going to team up with the current administration and remove your second amendment rights with Policing capabilities.
Report Post »In other words some Powder Blue Hat from Uganga or some other country will come into your home and take your weapons here in the USSA
KTsayz
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:51am@yougottabekidding
“They flew the planes into the wrong building !”
You made me laugh with that one!
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:25amand the human rights group should have the same thing done to them!
Report Post »PissOnLiberals
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:25amWhat a joke. Just the U.N trying to flex their muscle for One World Government.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:21amThe Useless Nations’ Human Rights Office Wants a Probe into Gadhafi’s Death?? Why?? Why don’t they just go ahead and call for an official day of mourning for one of their favorite sons that will be made mandatory for all member nations? That sounds like something they would want. Bunch of pansies…..
Report Post »quicker
Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:27amall yhe more reason to get out of the UN.
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