U.K. Parliament report details how NATO’s 2011 war in Libya was based on lies https://www.salon.com/2016/09/16/u-k-parliament-report-details-how-natos-2011-war-in-libya-was-based-on-lies/

A new report by the British Parliament shows that the 2011 NATO war in Libya was based on an array of lies.

“Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the UK’s future policy options,” an investigation by the House of Commons’ bipartisan Foreign Affairs Committee, strongly condemns the U.K.'s role in the war, which toppled the government of Libya’s leader Muammar Qaddafi and plunged the North African country into chaos.

“We have seen no evidence that the UK Government carried out a proper analysis of the nature of the rebellion in Libya,” the report states. “UK strategy was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence.”

The Foreign Affairs Committee concludes that the British government “failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element.”

The Libya inquiry, which was launched in July 2015, is based on more than a year of research and interviews with politicians, academics, journalists and more. The report, which was released on Sept. 14, reveals the following:

Qaddafi was not planning to massacre civilians. This myth was exaggerated by rebels and Western governments, which based their intervention on little intelligence.
The threat of Islamist extremists, which had a large influence in the uprising, was ignored — and the NATO bombing made this threat even worse, giving ISIS a base in North Africa.
France, which initiated the military intervention, was motivated by economic and political interests, not humanitarian ones.
The uprising — which was violent, not peaceful — would likely not have been successful were it not for foreign military intervention and aid. Foreign media outlets, particularly Qatar's Al Jazeera and Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya, also spread unsubstantiated rumors about Qaddafi and the Libyan government.
The NATO bombing plunged Libya into a humanitarian disaster, killing thousands of people and displacing hundreds of thousands more, transforming Libya from the African country with the highest standard of living into a war-torn failed state.

Multiple human rights groups, many nations, the ICC, Interpol, The Red Cross, Amnesty International…tell me how they ALL got it so, so wrong, and suddenly one of the most brutal DICTATORS IN HISTORY is now suddenly a super swell and awesome dude.

Based on the search results provided and our previous conversation, I don’t have definitive evidence that Amnesty International never issued reports of human rights abuses against Gaddafi. However, I can provide some relevant information:

1. The search results do not contain any direct statements from Amnesty International accusing Gaddafi personally of human rights abuses during his rule.

2. One search result [1] mentions that Amnesty International published a critical report on Libya in 2010, raising concerns about cases of enforced disappearances and other human rights violations. However, this report did not specifically name Gaddafi as the abuser.

3. Most of the human rights reports and concerns mentioned in the search results refer to the period after Gaddafi’s fall or to the general human rights situation in Libya without specifically attributing abuses to Gaddafi himself.

4. The search results do not provide a comprehensive overview of all Amnesty International’s reporting on Libya during Gaddafi’s rule.

It’s important to note that the absence of evidence in these limited search results does not conclusively prove that Amnesty International never reported on human rights abuses by Gaddafi. To make a definitive statement, we would need to review Amnesty International’s full historical reports on Libya during Gaddafi’s rule.

If you have additional information or sources about Amnesty International’s reporting on Gaddafi, it would be helpful to consider those for a more accurate understanding.

Citations: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Libya [2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2012/05/under-al-gaddafi-we-suffered-and-now-we-are-suffering-again/ [3] https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/amnesty/2009/en/66860 [4] https://www.mondaq.com/human-rights/993460/human-rights-in-libya-during-and-after-gaddafi-

take the L you little bitch, sissy losers like you cry about PFAS and Capitalism and then attack people who feel the exact same way. Because you clearly know fucking jack shit about gaddafi, You should be embarrassed for having a tenuous grasp on the world you live in

Gaddafi violence against Libya civilians exaggerated, says British group https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/19/gaddafi-violence-exaggerated-british-group

In other circumstances they could have been a group of British package tourists, clad in identical T-shirts, clambering on and off buses with cameras hanging around their necks.

But Libya has no tourists now, let alone of the package variety. And the 13 Britons who toured the west of the country over eight days, had a self-declared mission: to “find facts” about the situation in Gaddafi-controlled Libya to counter what they described as the manipulation and distortion of the western media.

The group, calling itself British Civilians for Peace in Libya, had found each other through word-of-mouth and the internet. They were, they said, academics, lawyers, a doctor, humanitarian campaigners and “independent journalists”, collectively outraged about the attacks on Libyan government forces by “the biggest military force in the world” - Nato.

For some, it was their first visit to Libya. The delegation’s leader, David Roberts, 55, from Leicester, said he had been several times before. A Dave Roberts, also from Leicester, is quoted in a web report as addressing a youth conference in Tripoli in 1999, ending his speech with a rousing cry of “Long live Muammar Gaddafi.”

At a press conference at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, before the group left for the Tunisian border, Roberts and his colleagues set out their “interim conclusions”.

They had received numerous reports of civilian fatalities caused by Nato bombing, they said, although they presented no evidence. They had uncovered nothing that suggested anti-government protests or dissent, dismissing extensive footage of demonstrators being shot which was obtained and broadcast by the BBC. They had “witnessed substantial support for the government by broad sections of society”, while admitting that they had been accompanied by government officials in whose presence no opposition-sympathising Libyan can speak openly.

The group had not visited Misrata, the rebel-held enclave under siege by Gaddafi forces, nor had it investigated the issue of detainees. It had not asked to visit any prisons, and had chosen not to examine the case of Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who claimed she had been raped multiple times by Gaddafi troops.

Most of the delegation’s venom was directed at representatives of the British media sitting before it, who were accused of distortion, manipulation and of “failing in their duty to report the conflict truthfully”.

Members of the delegation queued at the microphone to attack the British media, saying it was partisan towards the Nato military action. “Some of the reports from Benghazi and Misrata are totally one-sided,” said one. “There is a very high degree of distortion,” an Italian film-maker who accompanied the delegation said.

Based on the search results provided, there are several points that suggest the evidence of Gaddafi’s human rights abuses may have been exaggerated or misrepresented due to Western media bias:

1. Manufactured pretext: The search results indicate that Western powers may have manufactured a pretext to intervene in Libya, claiming Gaddafi was preparing a massacre of civilians[5]. This suggests that the narrative of Gaddafi’s human rights abuses may have been amplified or distorted to justify intervention.

2. Limited evidence of large-scale attacks: A report cited in the search results states that “Gaddafi’s 40-year record of appalling human rights abuses did not include large-scale attacks on Libyan civilians”[5]. This contradicts the narrative often presented in Western media at the time.

3. Exaggeration of death tolls: The search results mention that Western media misrepresented the number of deaths related to the conflict. Before NATO intervention, the UN estimated the death toll at around 2,000. However, after six months of NATO intervention, the death toll rose to nearly 50,000, with a significant proportion being civilians[5].

4. Selective reporting: The search results suggest that Western media emphasized Gaddafi’s crimes while downplaying or ignoring the actions of anti-Gaddafi rebels. This selective reporting may have created a biased picture of the situation[1].

5. Lack of context: The coverage often lacked nuance and failed to acknowledge the complexities of the situation in Libya, instead portraying Gaddafi and his regime as “evil others” without giving serious consideration to their claims[1].

6. Post-intervention situation: The search results indicate that the human rights situation in Libya has worsened since Gaddafi’s overthrow, suggesting that the narrative of intervention to protect human rights may have been flawed[2].

7. Flawed trial: The trial of Gaddafi-era officials was criticized for serious due process violations, raising questions about the legitimacy of some accusations against the regime[4].

It’s important to note that while these points suggest bias in Western media reporting, they do not necessarily prove that Gaddafi did not commit human rights abuses. Rather, they indicate that the extent and nature of these abuses may have been misrepresented or exaggerated in Western media coverage, potentially due to political motivations and bias.

Citations: [1] https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3013&context=masters_theses [2] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230413-libyas-human-rights-situation-is-worse-than-what-it-was-under-gaddafi/ [3] https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/biased-bigoted-boorish-thats-western-media-reporting-on-qatar-2022-12780162 [4] https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/28/libya-flawed-trial-gaddafi-officials [5] https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-the-media-arent-telling-the-whole-story-of-libyas-floods/