Was Libyen anbelangt deuteten alle Zeichen darauf hin, dass Gaddafi Massaker gegenüber der eigenen Bevölkerung begehen würde. Die Rachedrohungen von Gaddafi gegen die Bewohner Bengasis sind mir noch in grausiger Erinnerung.
Ich möchte wieder mal auf den Bericht des britischen Foreign Affairs Committee hinweisen:
The evidence base: rhetoric
31. Given the lack of reliable intelligence, both Lord Hague and Dr Fox highlighted the impact of Muammar Gaddafi’s rhetoric on their decision-making. […]
The evidence base: our assessment
32. Despite his rhetoric, the proposition that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians in Benghazi was not supported by the available evidence. The Gaddafi regime had retaken towns from the rebels without attacking civilians in early February 2011.
During fighting in Misrata, the hospital recorded 257 people killed and 949 people wounded in February and March 2011. Those casualties included 22 women and eight children. […] The disparity between male and female casualties suggested that Gaddafi regime forces targeted male combatants in a civil war and did not indiscriminately attack civilians. More widely, Muammar Gaddafi’s 40-year record of appalling human rights abuses did not include large-scale attacks on Libyan civilians.
33. On 17 March 2011, Muammar Gaddafi announced to the rebels in Benghazi, “Throw away your weapons, exactly like your brothers in Ajdabiya and other places did. They laid down their arms and they are safe. We never pursued them at all.” Subsequent investigation revealed that when Gaddafi regime forces retook Ajdabiya in February 2011, they did not attack civilians. […]
34.Professor Joffé told us that
the rhetoric that was used was quite blood-curdling, but again there were past examples of the way in which Gaddafi would actually behave. […] Therefore, he would have been very careful in the actual response…the fear of the massacre of civilians was vastly overstated.
Alison Pargeter concurred with Professor Joffé’s judgment on Muammar Gaddafi’s likely course of action in February 2011. She concluded that there was no “real evidence at that time that Gaddafi was preparing to launch a massacre against his own civilians.”
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmfaff/119/11905.htm
Ein illegaler Angriffskrieg, weil die Rhetorik nicht gefällt.
gruss. luky