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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. | ||
=====The Excessive Militarization of American Policing===== | |||
[https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf by ACLU] | |||
Across the country, heavily armed Special Weapons | |||
and Tactics (SWAT) teams are forcing their way into | |||
people’s homes in the middle of the night, often deploying | |||
explosive devices such as flashbang grenades to temporarily | |||
blind and deafen residents, simply to serve a search warrant | |||
on the suspicion that someone may be in possession of | |||
a small amount of drugs. | |||
