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Death of a Dictator: bloody vengeance in Sirte. Human Rights Watch 2012, pp. 58, (ISBN: 1-56432-952-6).

01 March 2013

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This report details the final hours of Muammar Gaddafi’s life and the circumstances in which he was killed. “It presents evidence that Misrata-based militias captured and disarmed members of the Gaddafi convoy and, after bringing them under their control, subjected them to brutal beatings. They then executed at least 66 captured members of the convoy at the nearby Mahari Hotel. The evidence indicates that opposition militias took Gaddafi’s wounded son Mutassim from Sirte to Misrata and killed him there. Under the laws of war, the killing of captured combatants is a war crime, and Libyan civilian and military authorities have an obligation to investigate war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law.”

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