ICC: Gaddafi's death may be war crime
The
chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis
Moreno-Ocampo, has said the death of former Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi, who was captured and killed by rebels in October, may have been
a war crime."I think the way in which Mr Gaddafi was killed creates
suspicions of ... war crimes," he said.
"I
think that's a very important issue," he said. "We are raising this
concern to the national authorities and they are preparing a plan to
have a comprehensive strategy to investigate all these crimes."
Under
pressure from Western allies, Libya's National Transitional Council has
promised to investigate how Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were killed.
The
U.N. Security Council referred Gaddafi's crackdown on pro-democracy
demonstrators to the ICC in February and authorized military
intervention to protect civilians in March. The ICC indicted Gaddafi,
his son Saif al-Islam and the former intelligence chief for war crimes.
Moreno-Ocampo
has also said he was investigating allegations that the anti-Gaddafi
forces and NATO were also guilty of war crimes during the civil war.
AfricaNews Monitoring Team
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