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Gadhafi regime hiding bodies, using soldiers as young as 12

The Libyan government is hiding the bodies of rebels that are being murdered by it in a bid to prevent the outside world from knowing how many Libyans have been killed over the last two weeks.

The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that after pro- Gaddafi militia shot at protesters in the western city of Tajoura, survivors said the bodies of slain protesters were dumped on pickup trucks and taken away. Relatives told the AP that they were searching for relatives to bury but could not find the bodies.

Eljahmi says officials in a hospital near Tripoli told him the bodies of Libyans killed were quickly hidden from view lest they serve as evidence of Gaddafi’s brutality.

“I didn’t just hear it from regular people, I heard it from hospital folks – doctors and nurses,” Eljahmi says. Medical staff told him that they had heard gunfire in the street, but outside the hospital, “they found a lot of blood in the middle of the street but no body.”

Nearby, medical staff found a man dead in his car and another lying on the side of the road. “The one on the side of the road, his head was blown out, his brain was next to him.”

Medical staff told Eljahmi that forces loyal to Gaddafi did everything possible to prevent the wounded from getting help. Last week, they said, gunmen entered the hospital, fired in the air, then went to the blood bank and destroyed the entire blood supply.

“These things are not reported in the media,” Eljahmi says, noting that the incidents in question happened last week when there were almost no foreign reporters in Libya.

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Meanwhile, Gadhafi is using 'soldiers' as young as 12:

IN the hospital morgue in the town of Ajdabiya, the fallen soldiers looked as young as 12 years old.

The revelation by a morgue worker came as witnesses told The Times yesterday that soldiers sent by Colonel Gaddafi to fight rebels in the neighbouring eastern oil town of Brega were no more than children. Meanwhile, captives accused of being mercenaries were paraded on the front line.

Faraj Lashrash, an English student who had joined the rebel army two days before and was manning a machine gun on a pick-up truck at the entrance to Brega, said: "It's crazy, he was using children, you know."

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I don't see the 'international community' intervening. Not with Obama in the White House.

Labels: Libyan no-fly zone, Libyan regime change, Muammar Gaddafi

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:49 PM