I'm arguing with people that think there were massacres in 2011 and that Gaddafi "threatened" to carry out more on a wider scale.

This is on an Internet forum from the 2000s.

Help me out here. Give me sources, if you can. I'm trying to convince these people, but it's been a long time since I've looked into the topic, and I'm going by memory here.

  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    The only investigation was done by a UK commission, so obviously they are being very diplomatic towards their own government that was part of the war crime coalition in Libya. Basically, they conclude that the US-armed rebels were the ones causing most of the massacres and the NATO coalition used their own crimes as a pretext to invade.

    This policy was not informed by accurate intelligence. In particular, the Government failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated and that the rebels included a significant Islamist element. By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change. That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya. The result was political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Through his decision making in the National Security Council, former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy.

    https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmfaff/119/119.pdf

    https://www.salon.com/2016/09/16/u-k-parliament-report-details-how-natos-2011-war-in-libya-was-based-on-lies/

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      14 days ago

      Thank you so much!~

      Just used the article down below.

      So far?

      Silence from the other two.

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      14 days ago

      I've also brought up the consequences of the invasion, such as open slavery in the streets of Tripoli (capital of Libya).