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Rights Group: Evidence Emerges of Revenge Killings Across Tripoli -- News from Antiwar.com

Rights Group: Evidence Emerges of Revenge Killings Across Tripoli -- News from Antiwar.com

As the city of Tripoli was falling to the rebel forces, Human Rights Watch is reporting “strong” evidence that the Gadhafi regime troops launched a series of arbitrary killings citywide, including massacring 120 civilians held in a hangar near a military base.


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