Atrocities taint rebel victory

Gaddafi loyalists were also targets of apparent extrajudicial killings. Those deaths have cast a dark shadow over Libya's new-found freedom and call into question whether the rebels will break with Colonel Gaddafi's blood-soaked style of governance or merely mimic it. - Diana Eltahawy, Libya researcher for Amnesty International, said a trail of abuse, torture and the extrajudicial killing of captured pro-Gaddafi fighters had followed the rebels from east to west as they took over the country. In the wreckage of a Tripoli fire station and field hospital on Friday, five fighters loyal to Colonel Gaddafi lay in agony and blood, apparently left to die by their vanquishers. They had been without food, water or medical attention for two days. Rebel fighters patrolling the compound knew the men were there, but scarcely seemed to care. ''We would take them to the hospital, but there are no hospitals,'' said Salah Mansoor, a law school graduate and shopkeeper. ''There are no cars to take them,'' he added, as a taxi cruised by. A few minutes' drive from the fire station, at least 15 bodies, most of them Colonel Gaddafi's black African supporters, lay rotting in the sun at a traffic junction outside his Bab al-Aziziyah complex. Several of the dead wore green pieces of cloth wrapped around their wrists to signal loyalty to Gaddafi.

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