Saturday, February 26, 2011

Paris and London ask judge for crimes against humanity to Gaddafi

The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Michele Alliot-Marie, has said that a Franco-British draft for a United Nations resolution calls for an arms embargo, financial sanctions and a request to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Libyan leader to be tried for crimes against humanity. In turn, from Hungary, the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has called an emergency meeting of the allies.

The theme to consult is the crisis in Libya and the meeting, according to Rasmussen, will be held today. From Paris, Alliot-Marie said his government wants a "strong resolve" of the Security Council of the UN, which is meeting today to address the delicate situation in the North African country.

Asked about the possibility of banning flights in the airspace to Libyan Muammar Gaddafi can not use the planes to bombard their opponents, the French minister was wise - "first you have to see the conditions" - because before there needs to be evacuations of foreigners still held. "Then you will see," he said.

The French Foreign owner justified the use of the International Criminal Court because "the situation is particularly dramatic, especially after" calls the murder "launched by Gaddafi. The Court also noted that although the information coming with difficulty "it appears that several hundreds" of deaths due to the suppression of protests against the regime of Libyan leader.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights went further. Navi Pillay said he has received information that suggests that "thousands of people may have been killed or wounded" during the suppression of the uprising in Libya. The violence with which the Government is responding to civil unrest is rising, a senior official said, citing information about "massacres, arbitrary detention and torture" of the protesters.

Pillay opened with this claim a special session of the Human Rights Council UN emergency which meets in Geneva to assess the measures you can take to violations of human rights in Libya.

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