Black Africans and other non-Libyans targeted for revenge killings: reports

[David__77]

Non-Libyan Africans are reportedly becoming the target of revenge killings in Libya, owing to the perception that foreigners form a large part of Moammar Gaddafi’s mercenary force paid to kill anti-government protesters.

The violent backlash is focusing primarily on black Africans below the Sahara desert, including migrant workers who had nothing to do with Gaddafi or his killing machine whatsoever.

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According to reports, more than 150 black Africans from at least a dozen different countries escaped Libya by plane and landed at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya with horrific tales of violence.

"We were being attacked by local people who said that we were mercenaries killing people. Let me say that they did not want to see black people," Julius Kiluu, a 60-year-old building supervisor, told Reuters.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/117665/20110301/libya-africans.htm

[sasha031]

1. this is so tragic,

their living conditions as workers were horrific.

Now they are being targets.

[JI7]

2. can the UN or some other international group do something to get them out of there ?

[tuckessee]

3. Since the "good guys" are massacring 'em it apparently doesn't matter.

Only the enemies of the US commit atrocities (which of course, warrants imposing sanctions, no-fly zones, bombings, invasions, etc). Otherwise it's barely worth mentioning.