The family of deceased Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi reportedly plans to file a war-crimes complaint against NATO for the role they believe the international military alliance played in the former leader’s death, a lawyer for the family told Agence France-Presse news service.
Marcel Ceccaldi, a French lawyer who previously worked for Kadafi's regime and now represents his family, told AFP on Wednesday that the complaint would be filed with the International Criminal Court in the Hague because the family believes a NATO strike on Kadafi’s convoy led directly to his death.
Kadafi, who ruled Libya for more than four decades, was captured alive by revolutionary fighters on Thursday in his hometown of Surt, ending an eight-month war that cost more than 30,000 lives. The circumstances of his death remain unclear.
PHOTOS: Moammar Kadafi killed in fall of Surt
Libyan authorities have said he likely died in crossfire. Others, including the international rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch, believe Kadafi was executed. But Kadafi’s family is convinced that he died as a result of NATO aircraft firing on his convoy as it fled Surt, Ceccaldi told AFP.
"The willful killing [of someone protected by the Geneva Convention] is defined as a war crime by Article 8 of the ICC's Rome Statute," the news agency quoted Ceccaldi as saying. "Kadafi's homicide shows that the goal of [NATO] member states was not to protect civilians but to overthrow the regime.”
It was unclear when the complaint would be filed, but Ceccaldi said the lawsuit would target NATO executive bodies and leaders of the alliance’s member states.
In June, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Kadafi, his son and onetime heir apparent Seif Islam Kadafi, and Abdullah Sanoussi, the regime's former security chief, for murder and other crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the regime's crackdown on protesters this year.
On Tuesday, media reports indicated that Seif was trying to escape to neighboring Niger, where Sanoussi had reportedly already fled.
MT seems to be a Moammar Kadafi fan. Good luck with your law suit.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
MT seems to be a Moammar Kadafi fan. Good luck with your law suit.
You side with the "rebels"? The ones that executed Gaddafi and hung him in a meat locker and put him on display. Oh yeah,,,you're an Obama supporter, execution without being charged and tried is lawful and civil.
You side with the "rebels"? The ones that executed Gaddafi and hung him in a meat locker and put him on display. Oh yeah,,,you're an Obama supporter, execution without being charged and tried is lawful and civil.
MT is a Qaddafi fan, now Cicero has joined MT in support of their hero Moammar Qaddafi. It figures they would also support George Worst Bush.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Funny, I don't remember President Bush summarily executing American Citizens ... But Obama did.
I also don't support the way the rebel group took it upon themselves to summarily sodomize, torture and kill their president. I don't agree with Qaddafi or his actions in any sense of the word, but he had the right to be tried, convicted and if found guilty, executed.
Supporter of Qaddafi? No .. just disagree with how it was handled, and our part in it.
Funny, I don't remember President Bush summarily executing American Citizens ... But Obama did.
I also don't support the way the rebel group took it upon themselves to summarily sodomize, torture and kill their president. I don't agree with Qaddafi or his actions in any sense of the word, but he had the right to be tried, convicted and if found guilty, executed.
Supporter of Qaddafi? No .. just disagree with how it was handled, and our part in it.
(As I've posted previously, G Worst Bush also executed an American citizen in a drone strike in Yemen.)
Our part??? We supplied intelligence and air power to overthrow a terrorist regime.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
right, wrong or indifferent, I think he should have been put on trial!!!! If they want to have democracy, they need to practice democracy and not do exactly what the dictator did that made him so hated and why they wanted him ousted.
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
I also don't support the way the rebel group took it upon themselves to summarily sodomize, torture and kill their president.
That's because you just don't 'Get It'
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
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