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[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2017/03/evidence-points-to-war-crimes-by-libyan-national-army-forces/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 23/3/17] | [https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2017/03/evidence-points-to-war-crimes-by-libyan-national-army-forces/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 23/3/17] | ||
Shocking video evidence has emerged showing fighters from the Libyan National Army (LNA) carrying out execution-style killings of captured fighters from the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (SCBR) in the Ganfouda area of Benghazi, said Amnesty International. The two separate incidents may amount to war crimes, adding to the long list of crimes under international law that have been committed with impunity by armed groups and militias in both Western and Eastern Libya. | Shocking video evidence has emerged showing fighters from the Libyan National Army (LNA) carrying out execution-style killings of captured fighters from the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (SCBR) in the Ganfouda area of Benghazi, said Amnesty International. The two separate incidents may amount to war crimes, adding to the long list of crimes under international law that have been committed with impunity by armed groups and militias in both Western and Eastern Libya. | ||
=====War Comes Home===== | |||
[https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf by ACLU 2014] | |||
SWAT raids are undoubtedly violent events: numerous | |||
(often 20 or more) officers armed with assault rifles | |||
and grenades approach a home, break down doors and | |||
windows (often causing property damage), and scream for | |||
the people inside to get on the floor (often pointing their | |||
guns at them). | |||
