U.S. Congressman Wants Libya Rebels Investigated on "Crimes Against Humanity."

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Date: January 29th, 2012
Name: Hamza
Subject: juctice
Comment: no need for inquiry must do the same as nato did in libya but this time with jalill and allies - then game will be over - no need for galry if we have the will we will do it with God help

Date: October 12th, 2011
Name: Enrique Ferro
Subject: Tawergha, City of Blacks, reported depopulated
Comment: ...reported depopulated...
the city of Tawergha, which is now abandoned.
Brutally cleansed! Through murder, arson, rape...
We all should write to Rep Jackson Jr to thank him for his efforts for justice, and encourage him!
Please launch an international campaign to support him!

Date: October 12th, 2011
Name: Kingamba Mwenho
Subject: This is the best news on this month!
Comment: YES THE TRUTH WILL WIN,
AND THIS WAR FOR OIL,
HAVE TO BE CONDEMNED.
Many black people was killed in Libya, and NATO don't doing anything to stop this. By the way, many civilian, libian of all parts, was killed like animal, whithout humanity.
Thanks Mr. Jackson. GO, the people look your exemple. GO!

Date: September 19th, 2011
Name: naomi
Subject: killings of black libyans
Comment: Obama, Hillary Cameron and Sarkozy have blood on the hands of many thousands of Africans and the UN, and Nato have murdered many Africans in the name of oil. The Western media started the racist propaganda against Black libyans and the world ignored these killings by racist rebels and their leaders. Gaddarfi is not criminal here; NTC, US, France and the UK government should be charged with crimes against humanity. Hillary should be put in prison for her racist agenda against Africans!

Date: September 19th, 2011
Name: kande
Subject: Lynchings in Libya
Comment: Imagine that ugly settler Jibril in Africa of all places saying that killing Blacks is a local matter. The dirty dog should be sent packing back to where they infiltrated from. Jibril will tell you that he is not an African so he should his ugly--the man looks like a pervert--depraved arse back to wherever the little rat came from.
What is just very depressing too is that the dumb and stupid African leaders

Date: September 17th, 2011
Name: Michael Major
Subject: Hypocrisy of the UN on Human Rights of Africans
Comment: Please see the article below about a recent UN intervention in a relatively uneventful issue. The UN sent their representative to the UK investigate the needs of the wealthy and comfortable people who are being evicted from their caravan sites. They are protesting against the local government department which is trying to move them into proper purpose build permanent brick homes.

The point here is that the UN see this as more important than the lives of helpless and poor black people

Date: September 16th, 2011
Name: Inez Tyler
Subject: Obama Worse Than Bush
Comment: Obama attacked Libya, a country that posed NO threat to us, and handed it over to a gang of murderous racist psychopaths. So far they’ve killed 40 THOUSAND black Africans. John McCrazy praised Obama and even visited a site in Libya where mass beheadings of Africans had previously taken place.
Imagine that, America’s first black president caused the racially motivated murder of 40,000 innocent black Africans.
Obama is WORSE than Bush. And as a black person, I am outraged horrified

Date: September 15th, 2011
Name: Sam Nelson Jr.
Subject: Speaking Truth To Power!!
Comment: Rep. Jackson is right and THANK GOD at least ONE Black elected official has the COURAGE to SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER. The ancestors will bless him! This president can FORGET about my vote

Date: September 15th, 2011
Name: Awula Serwah
Subject: Killings of Africans in Libya
Comment: Dear
Mr. Allimadi,

Thank, you very much for your article, and for raising awareness about killings of Africans in Libya.

I am resident in the UK and believe that as Britain supported the rebels, she has a responsibility to ensure that killings stop. I have written to my MP on the matter, and have encouraged my contacts to do likewise.

Date: September 15th, 2011
Name: Karin Sims Lowery
Subject: Genocide against african american children and families
Comment: There are more children in foster care in Houston, TX than there are children living at home with their biological parents. 7% of those children are on psychotropic medications. Most of the children have not seen their families in years. Black women and children are the target today. Foster children are used for profit, it not about if a child is abused or neglected, that is not important in America. These children represent a number meaning $Dollars$

Date: September 14th, 2011
Name: Zeph Ernest
Subject: Crimes Against Humanity
Comment: There have been persistent reports of 10,000 black Africans missing from the city of Tawergha. Some were trucked to and incarcerated in Tripoli but they were found missing at those locations. There have also been reports and photographs of blacks with their hands and feet bound and executed. There have been reports of nightly rapes of black African women conducted at gunpoint at some of the refugee camps.

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Tawergha, City of Blacks, reported depopulated

Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., reacting to reports in The Wall Street Journal has called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court into the reported killings of Black Libyans in the city of Tawergha.

Rep. Jackson (D-IL-2) also tells The Black Star News he will ask that U.S. assistance for reconstruction and transition to democracy in Libya be conditional. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that rebels from Misurata had torched the homes that belonged to the predominantly dark-skinned residents of the city of Tawergha, which is now abandoned.

A Journal reporter witnessed some of the torching and wrote that the words "slaves" and "negroes" were scribbled on the walls of the now emptied homes.

The town's entire population of 10,000 is gone.

In an earlier news report The Wall Street Journal reported that rebels from the city of Misurata had declared that Tawergha would be "no more" and that the units conducting the attacks was named "The Brigade for Purging Slaves, black Skin."

Misurata rebels blame residents of Tawergha, which was used by the Libyan army under the government of Muammar al-Quathafi, as staging ground for the siege on Misurata. The Journal has also reported on long-historical feuds, that predate the Libyan civil war, between the "white" residents of Misurata and the predominantly Black ones of Tawergha.

The Wall Street Journal Tuesday also reported that the Transitional National Council's (TNC) "prime minister" Mahmoud Jibril, referring to the reported atrocities in Tawergha by rebels, said: "Regarding Tawergha my own viewpoint is that nobody has the right to interfere in this matter except the people of Misurata."

Rep. Jackson took exception to Jibril's remarks.

"Racism in the form of ethnic cleansing, killing and genocide is wrong anytime, anyplace and against anybody in the world," Rep. Jackson said, today. "And it appears as though the Rebel leader, Mahmoud Jibril, is using the American idea that the South used to protect the institution of slavery - the 10th Amendment in our Constitution - to say, in essence, 'it's a states' right and local control issue.'"

He added, "Well it's not a local issue and it's a moral outrage. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' As a senior member of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, I intend to raise this issue with my colleagues and condition any financial support for the reconstruction of Libya and its transition to a democratic society."

"I think it is absolutely necessary that the United Nations and the International Criminal Court in the Hague investigate what I consider to be crimes against humanity," Rep. Jackson said.

A spokesperson for Rep. John Lewis, told The Black Star News that he opposes wars as a matter of principle and had also objected to the U.S. involvement in Libya: "He does not agree with war because of its ramifications, because it leads to these moral compromises," the spokesperson said. "It puts you in a difficult position, where you have to commit the same crimes that you are intending to stop."

A spokesman for the United Nations, Eduardo del Buey, declined to comment on Rep. Jackson's call for an investigation and his characterization of the accounts reported by The Wall Street Journal as amounting to crimes against humanity.

A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said the U.S. couldn't comment by The Black Star News' publication deadline. The U.S. hasn't yet condemned the reported targeted attacks on Black Libyans.

The Journal reported that the road sign pointing to the city of Tawergha had been defaced and replaced with "New Misurata." Some Tawerghans who had managed to flee to Tripoli were captured and taken to Misurata, the Journal reports.

The Journal is the only major U.S. media outlet that's reported on the plight of Tawergha. The U.K.''s Sunday Telegraph also has an account.

milton@blackstarnews.com

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