Amnesty: NATO Still Failing to Investigate Libyan Civilian Deaths
Amnesty International has become the latest in a long line of organizations taking NATO to task for its civilian killings in Libya’s 2011 civil war. Or rather, Amnesty is faulting NATO for its refusal to conduct investigations into those killings. - “NATO officials repeatedly stressed their commitment to protecting civilians,” the statement said, “they cannot now brush aside the deaths of scores of civilians with some vague statement of regret.” NATO initially claimed that not a single civilian was killed in their air strikes, but after a UN investigation uncovered 60 civilians killed, and also lashed NATO for refusing to cooperate with the probe, NATO did eventually cop to the killings of 55 of them.
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