**RETRACTION**
[url]http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20121108/265281878.html[/url]
I fucked up, they were actually soldiers from Gaddafi's army. The original article simply said "soldiers" and so I assumed they were members of the new National Army, rather than members of the defunct Libyan Army
Original OP:
[quote][url]http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/08/five-soldiers-sentenced-to-death-three-others-to-ten-years-in-prison/[/url]
[quote=Libya Herald]Five soldiers have been sentenced to death for crimes committed during last year’s revolutions, while three others face ten years imprisonment. The judgement, passed by Benghazi’s Permanent Military Council, relates to charges of war crimes, human rights violations and rape in Eastern Libya in the early days of the conflict.
The men sentenced to execution, by shooting, are Brigadier General Ghaith Ahmed Abdul-Rahim Abo-Asbaa, Brigadier General Saad Mohamad Nasr Abdul-Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Taher Abu-Bakr Taher Mohamed, Captain Khaled Muftah Ali Akremi and Lieutenant Mohamad Muftah Mohamed. The men given prison spells are Corporals Otman Ahmed Ashkoob Arab, Mohamed Awad Milad Omar and Mukhtar Ahmed Hanna Ahmed, they have also been discharged from military service.[/quote]
Looks like a victory for the independent judiciary[/quote]
Those are some pretty high-ranking offenders.
[QUOTE=IKTM;38371671]Those are some pretty high-ranking offenders.[/QUOTE]
It seems that the highest ranking officers are always the ones committing it. I feel like if a unit's officers are completely against the stuff they're being charged with, it wouldn't happen.
glad to see they aren't whitewashing their revolutionary history
[QUOTE=smurfy;38370738]
Looks like a victory for the independent judiciary[/QUOTE]
It doesnt actually say they were revolutionaries? Sure these weren't just Libyan Army officers?
This... is actually pretty damn big. Most countries after a revolution pretty much expunge the records of those involved in the revolution, this government seems to actually give a fuck about clean records through the justice system. Sweet.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;38371999]It doesnt actually say they were revolutionaries? Sure these weren't just Libyan Army officers?[/QUOTE]
Well shit, [url=http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20121108/265281878.html]it looks like they were[/url]. I didn't even consider that as a possibility because I assumed "soldiers" meant members of the current National Army, not members of the Jamahiriya Army
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