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UN Human Rights Council Calls for Investigation of Gadhafi's Death
Via The New American,
While some are still questioning the validity of yesterday's breaking news of the killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the United Nations Human Rights Council has accepted it as a reality and is now calling for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. Questions are focusing on what occurred in the interim between Gadhafi's capture and his death — and exactly how he died.“We believe there is a need for an investigation,” said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “More details are needed to ascertain whether he was killed in some form of fighting or was executed after his capture.... There seem to be four or five different versions of how he died.”After Gadhafi was captured, he was placed on the hood of a pickup truck and paraded around in victory, while onlookers shouted, “We want him alive. We want him alive.” Shortly afterward, Gadhafi was removed from the hood and pulled by his hair toward an ambulance.Later video footage, however, showed Gadhafi lying dead on the pavement, stripped to the waist, with a pool of blood under his head. His body was paraded through Misrata, prompting cheers from the crowd.“The two cell phone videos that have emerged, one of him alive, and one of him dead, taken together are very disturbing,” Colville told reporters.According to Libyan leaders, Gadhafi was caught in a crossfire, though it was unclear who fired the bullet that killed him. “It seems like the bullet was a stray and it could have come from the revolutionaries or the loyalists. The problem is everyone in the event is giving his own story,” said Libyan Information Minister Mahmoud Shamman, who added that a coroner’s report shows that Gadhafi was shot in the head and died enroute to the hospital.Gadhafi’s burial is being delayed because his body will be examined by the International Criminal Court. USA Today writes,The transitional leadership had said it would bury the dictator Friday in accordance with Islamic tradition. Bloody images of Gadhafi's last moments, however, have raised questions over how exactly he died after he was captured wounded, but alive.Gadhafi, as well as his son Seif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, were charged with crimes against humanity for the regime’s crackdown on opposition as the uprisings against the regime were escalating into civil war.A senior member of the governing National Transitional Council announced that representatives from the International Criminal Court will be coming to “go through paperwork.” The ICC has not yet issued a statement regarding Gadhafi’s death, waiting on confirmation of such things as DNA samples, as well as the fact that Gadhafi is indeed dead.Colville told the Associated Press, “The dust hasn’t settled yet. You can’t just chuck the law out of the window. Killing someone outside a judicial procedure, even in countries where there is the death penalty, is outside the rule of law.”
