Thursday
Sep012011
Libya Feature: Black Africans Rounded Up by New Government?
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 15:41 | James Miller in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
There are fresh allegations that Libya's opposition fighters have rounded up black Africans and placed them in detention camps, on the suspicion that they are former Qaddafi mercenaries, just on the basis of their skin color. As other reports of chaos surface after the fall of Qaddafi's government in Tripoli, we ask two questions:
Are these abuses systematically executed by Libya's new government, and when will law and order be restored to Libya?