Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans

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Date: September 15th, 2011
Name: Rude Boi
Subject: ethnic cleansing
Comment: Is there no place on this planet where Black people can find peace? I'm murderously sick of this being done to people that look like me. But I also understand this is a plan to bring about the complete destruction of Black people. We must bedemonized further so that when the genocide starts nobody will give a damn and may even join in. But I have a feeling Black folk are waking up to this full frontal assault and will not just lay down. Let's hope so anyway.

Date: August 29th, 2011
Name: andrresh
Subject: libya
Comment: also:
Being a follower of pure Quran and not historically established Islam, Gaddafi believes in equal rights for all people (take, for example, women rights in Libya, which was always famous for incredible freedom offered to its women - something that a lot of Muslim countries often scolded it for), and he strived to secure them for black Libyans too. Some tribes, however, were displeased by this situation. These were the very same tribes NATO supported as rebels.

Date: August 29th, 2011
Name: andrresh
Subject: Libyan rebels are racist
Comment: Libyan rebels are racist

Media habitually tells us that Libyan rebels are noble freedom fighters, struggling aganist a bloodthirsty tyrant. But after all the buckets of half-truths and blatant lies, that news poured on our heads, treating us viewers like brainless sheep and feeding us half-baked reports that often got disproved the next day, some of us started to look further and investigate. What they found out, is extremely disturbing. Say, from the very beginning of war we've been

Date: August 18th, 2011
Name: LibyaSOS
Subject: Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
Comment: Evidence of Libya torture BENGHAZI #Feb17 [libyasos]

(V) A family been raped by the Rebels  http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/libya-sos-video-no1.html
(V) Martyr blood of Varffala in Libya ( 18) 
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/beheading-in-name-of-democracy-in-libya.html
(V) RIP HEART and play with it  http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/peaceful-protesters-from-benghazi-rip.html
(V) Massacre ni Benghazi ( 18) 

Date: June 27th, 2011
Name: LAS
Subject: BSN Ed
Comment: Thanks for bringing this article to my attention.
Why do you care whether something appears in the NY Times?
The gray lady is completely irrelevant to the black and brown experience. Their work is real sloppy. Remember their investigative report that was supposed topple the David Paterson administration.

Need I say more?

Editor's Note: We bring it up because many people still read the paper, including people at CNN and at the State Department and White House. They can "pretend" they don't know about the genocide so long as The Times works with them and doesn't print the story...

[Black Star News Editorial]

The "rebels" in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline "Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud."

The "rebels" now eye the city of Tawergha, 25 miles away, and vow to cleanse it of all Black people once they seize the city. Isn't this the perfect definition of the term "genocide"?

According to The Journal's article, the "rebels" refer to themselves as "the brigade for purging slaves, black skin." The Journal quotes a rebel commander Ibrahim al-Halbous saying, of Black Libyans, "They should pack up," and that "Tawergha no longer exists, only Mistrata."

You won't read this kind of article in The New York Times, which has become as journalistically corrupt and as compromised as the old PRAVDA, during the Soviet era. This editorial page has been insisting since the beginning of the Libya conflict that the "rebels" embraced racism and used the allegation that Muammar al-Quathafi had employed mercenaries from other African countries as a pretext to massacre Black Libyans.

The evidence of public lynching of Black people are readily available online through simple Google or YouTube searches, even though The New York Times has completely ignored this major story. Does anyone believe that if people of African descent controlled the editorials in The New York Times or even the news pages that such a huge and damning story would be ignored?

If the case were reversed and Black Libyans were committing ethnic cleansing against non-Black Libyans, does anyone believe that the people who now control the editorials or the news pages at The New York Times would ignore such a story? Evidently, it doesn't much bother the sages at The Times that Black Libyans and specifically being targeted for liquidation because of their skin color.

Instead The New York Times is busy, as in a recent editorial boasting of its support for NATO's bombing campaign, which this week alone is reported to have killed 20 civilians. The Times has also ignored Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s call that the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate NATO commanders on possible war crimes in connection to Libyan civilians killed.

The Times can't write about the ethnic cleansing of Black Libyans and migrants from other African countries because it would diminish the reputation of the "rebels" who the Times have fully embraced, even after the ICC also reported that they too have committed war crimes. Instead, The Times is comfortable with the simplistic narrative: "al-Quathafi bad," and "rebels good," regardless of the fact that The Wall Street Journal also reported that the rebels are being trained by former al-Qaeda leaders who were released from U.S. custody on Guantanamo Bay.

The Times also has totally ignored the African Union (AU) peace plan, which actually calls for a ceasefire, negotiations for a constitution, and democratic elections, all to be monitored by the International community.

So what can one say about the Times for ignoring the ethnic cleansing of Black Libyans by the "rebels" in Mistrata, with the help of NATO? Does this make The New York Times culpable of the ethnic cleansing, since the newspaper not only deliberately ignores the story, but also falsely depicts the "rebels" as Libya's saviors?

Call The New York Times at (212) 556-1234 and ask for the Foreign Desk editor--ask him why his newspaper is not reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Black Libyans.

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