اتقـــــوا الله في نسائنــــــا

يناس اليوسف
(يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُواْ رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالاً كَثِيرًا وَنِسَاء وَاتَّقُواْ اللّهَ الَّذِي تَسَاءلُونَ بِهِ وَالأَرْحَامَ إِنَّ اللّهَ كَانَ عَلَيْكُمْ رَقِيبًا) (1) سورة النساء .
سبق وان تكلمت في مقالي (لماذا لجأ القذافي لاغتصاب حرائر ليبيا ) عن مصير المرأة المغتصبة وتطرقت لوضعها وأسباب لجوء القذافي لاستخدم هذا النوع من الجرائم العنيفة ، واليوم أتابع بمقالي هذا الحال الذي وصل إليه ضحايا الاعتداء لأنه ازداد سوءا وتعقيدا بعد ازدياد حالات الانتحار والهرب والطلاق .

حالات الاغتصاب في ليبيا من جراء الحرب التي خضناها لأجل ازاله الطاغية من سدة الحكم وصل عددها إلي (8000 ضحية ) ، من المتورط الحقيقي المرأة المغتصبة أم القذافي وأبناءه والبغدادي المحمودي الذي ثبت عليه تهمة إلقاء الأوامر والتحريض علي الاغتصاب من خلال تسجيلاته الصوتية ، أم المرأة الضعيفة التي تعرضت للاغتصاب مكرهه ؟
إن الحالات التي هدمت فيها البيوت ودمر كيانها الأسري جراء الاغتصاب ليست أعدادا بسيطة 20% نساء أزواجهن هجروهن 30% طلقن ونسبة كبيرة منهن خارج ليبيا لم يعودوا إلي الوطن في تونس ومصر بدون أي دعم مالي فتايات قاصرات في سن المراهقة إضافة إلي نساء مازلن يعشن مع أزواجهم ولكن يتعرضن للإهانة والضرب والعنف .
هل المجتمع قبلي متشدد ؟ أم أن الناس لا تريد أن تواجه جريمة الاغتصاب التي يستغربها المجتمع وحتى يرفض الخوض في تفاصيلها ويعتبر الحديث عنها جرم كبير ؟
الفتيات اللواتي يرفضن الرجوع إلي بيوتهم مخافة القتل من ذويهم هل يجوز محاسبتهم علي ذنب لم يقترفوه ؟
هل ستظل بناتنا بلا دعم بلا مكان يحتضنهن ويأويهن هل سنتركهن فريسة للمستغلين بالداخل والخارج ؟
بلا بيوت وبلا طعام وبلا مأوى ، إن القذافي أجرم عندما أصدر أوامر باغتصاب النساء والقاصرات والرجال أيضا ولكن المجتمع أيضا أجرم لأنه أصدر قراره في نبذ ضحايا الاغتصاب وفي تهديدهم بالقتل أليس الجوع والتشرد جرم ؟
لماذا لم يتم إعادة هذه الحالات إلي وطنهم لماذا تركن إلي حد هذه اللحظة بلا مرجع إن كانت أهاليهم رفضت استقبالهم فالمجتمع والدولة لابد أن لا تتركهم ؟ .
نحن نعلم أن هناك جهات مختصة كثيرة تحاول حل هذه المشاكل ولكن بدون دعم الأهل كيف ستحل الأمور ؟
كيف ستقابلون وجه الله ماذا ستقولون له هل ستقولوا لأجل سمعتنا قتلنا بناتنا لأجل كلام الناس ذبحنا وشاركنا القذافي جرائمه هو ذبح بناتنا ونحن مزقنا لحمهن ؟
لقد أجمع فقهاء الإسلام أن المرأة إذا استكرهت على الزنا ، وغلبت على أمرها فلا يقام عليها الحد لأنها مكرهة ، وفي الحديث الصحيح (إن الله وضع عن أمتي الخطأ والنسيان وما استكرهوا عليه( .
السؤال هنا أليس القتل جريمة يعاقب عليها الله تعالي آلا يعتبر حراما ؟
إلي أين أيها الناس انتم هاربون من عدالة الله اتقوا الله مدوا أيديكم لبناتكم احتضنوهن ضموهن إليكم هن مجاهدات شريفات لم يمارسن البغاء والرذيلة ، هن نساء عفيفات وأطفال أبرياء اهكذا نعاملهم ؟
أين المسئولين أين القانون الذي يكفل الحماية لبناتنا ؟ الأهالي الذين يقتلون أبناءهم ونساءهم أليس هناك من يقوم بمنعهم وتوعيتهم أليس هناك جهات مختصة من المفترض أن تقوم بدور المرشد ؟ أين رجال الدين من هذا ؟ الساكت عن الحق شيطان اخرس !!
الأسر التي قتلت نساءهن لأنهن اغتصبن الأهالي الذين كمموا أفواه بناتهم حتي لا يتكلمن مخافة المجتمع أليسوا هم بحاجة للعلاج والرعاية والتأهيل النفسي هل كلام الناس أهم من رضا الله ؟
النساء اللواتي انتحرن بأي ذنب نحاسبهم ذنبهن في رقبة القذافي وحده أم ذنبهن في رقبة أهاليهم الذين دفعوهن للتخلص من أرواحهن ومن إحساسهم بالعار وهؤلاء المستعدين والمؤهلين نفسيا للانتحار لان أهاليهم تخلوا عنهم ذنبهم في رقبة من.. أليس في رقابنا جميعا ؟ قال (صلى الله عليه واله وسلم) ما أكرم النساء إلا كريم وما أهانهن إلا لئيم .
هناك حالات قاموا أهاليهم بتزويجهن بشكل صوري دون إعطاءهم الحق في عيش حياتهن الزوجية بشكل حقيقي ويتم حبسهن بانتظار الموت .
إلي متى ستبقي أفواهنا مكممة ؟ إلي متي سنشارك جميعنا في هذا الجرم دون أن نتعرض له أو منعه أو نحاول إيقافه بأي شكل من الأشكال إنساني كان اوقانوني تحت أي مظلة لابد أن يتوقف هذا العنف الذي نتج عن العنف ؟
قال الرسول الأكرم (صلى الله عليه واله وسلم) : من آذى النساء بغير حق فأنا خصمه يوم القيامة .
العلاج النفسي والتأهيل النفسي مهم جدا لابد أن ندعم بناتنا وأن نقف معهن لا أن نتركهن للاكتئاب والهلاك والانتحار الجنون والانحلال ، ساعدوا بناتكم كل بيت فيه حاله لابد من إخضاعها للعلاج كل أب لابد أن يسافر ويحضر ابنته ويحتويها ، اتقوا الله في أنفسكم وفي بناتكم الطاهرات الشريفات بناتكم هن تاج العفة والشرف أي رجل شريف نبيل يتمني الزواج بهن وسيفخر لأنه سيتزوج امرأة مجاهده لا تقل في مقاومتها ووطنيتها عن أي رجل في ساحة القتال افخروا ببناتكم ولا تنظروا للتقاليد الجاهلة والتخلف الذي فرضه علينا القذافي طوال حكمه ، لماذا قامت ثورتنا الم تقم لأجل التمرد علي الجهل والعقد والأمراض التي فرضت علينا ؟
الم يتعرض بعض الرجال أيضا للاغتصاب ؟ هل سمعتم عن امرأة طلبت الطلاق أو هجرت زوجها ؟
نحن هنا لا نريد أن نلقي باللوم علي احد لا رجل ولا امرأة ولكن لماذا يلقي البعض باللوم علي المرأة لأنها تعرضت للاعتداء أليس بوسعنا أن نتهم الرجال أيضا بالتقصير لماذا لم تقوموا بحماية نساءكم ؟ لماذا سمحتم بان يعتدي عليهن أمام أعينكم من المسؤؤل هنا ؟ الم تكن مكبلا مكمم الفم الم يقيدوك الكتائب وأنت الرجل ذو القوة ولك القوامة الم تشعر بالضعف والعجز وأنت غير قادر علي حماية ابنتك أو زوجتك كيف تطلب من امرأة ضعيفة بلا حول أو قوة إن تمنع هذا الاعتداء البشع عليها ثم تمارس عليها بالتالي دور الجلاد لتضربها وتذلها وتحكم عليها بالموت البطيء .. لماذا ؟ .
هذه بلادنا استشهد لأجلها الآلاف ومزقت أجساد الأطفال وشوهت نفوسنا وقلوبنا ولكن لأجل وطننا نعيش ونموت آلا يستحق الوطن أن ننظر إليه بابتسامة تفاؤل وان ننسي كل شئ ونتذكر لبعضنا الحب والعشرة الطيبة .
قال تعالي( وَمَا لَكُمْ لاَ تُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ وَالْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاء وَالْوِلْدَانِ الَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا أَخْرِجْنَا مِنْ هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ الظَّالِمِ أَهْلُهَا وَاجْعَل لَّنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيًّا وَاجْعَل لَّنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ نَصِيرًا (75) سورة النساء (إِلاَّ الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاء وَالْوِلْدَانِ لاَ يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةً وَلاَ يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلاً) (98) سورة النساء وهنا وقع وصف الرجولة على الضعفاء مقرونين بالنساء والولدان ، فلا تلوم ضعف المرأة أمام آلة الحرب التي لا تعرف سوى قوة الشر والفساد ، لقد مات القذافي تحت احذيه شبابنا لا تجعلوه ينتصر علينا وهو في قبره بأن يفسد عيشنا وحياتنا وامننا ويدمر استقرارنا عودوا لبيوتكم ترفقوا بنسائكم .
أريد أن اشكر واثني علي كل الآباء والأزواج الذين عالجوا بناتهم ونسائهم وزوجاتهم ولم يتخلوا عنهن وأقول لهم إن الرجولة مواقف وشهامة يقول الله تعالى(من المؤمنين [رجال] صدقوا ما عاهدوا الله عليه )، والرجال هم الذين يصدقون ويوفون بوعودهم كما أوصي رسول الله عليه الصلاة والسلام بالنساء فارجعوا إلي الله يقول تعالي (وَلَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَى) .

Five injured in revenge attack on Maltese-owned Palm City in Libya

National Wednesday 23 November 2011

At least five people were injured in a dramatic shootout involving members of one of Libya's heavily armed militias late on Monday, highlighting security risks persisting in post-war Libya।

A rebel fighter seen in an archive photo during a shootout outside Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel last August
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Sources explained that the incident happened on Monday night when a fighter from Misurata returned to Palm City with a gang of 40 armed men, after being asked to leave the luxury compound some weeks ago by the management.
The fighter - identified as Osman - led his gang to a shoot-out with Palm City security guards at the main gate, injuring at least three men, and the gang later proceeded to spray the buildings with bullets.
Osman and his gang ransacked some villas in their search for the Maltese-run management, who at the time was not in the compound, but damage was done to some buildings and another two people inside were also injured.
One of the injured, a man from Benghazi was reportedly in bed when he was hit by bullets that came through the window.
While the injured were treated on site and later in hospital, the case was reported to the National Transitional Council, who through the local commanders have initiated investigations.
No Maltese were injured in the shooting. The ring-leader has reportedly been arrested by the NTC.
The militia group from Misrata had previously stayed at Palm City but were not allowed back in. The compound is used by many U.N. and oil company executives, who were swift to thank the managemnet for the swift end to the incident.
"I was in my room when I heard shooting," the witness said. "They were using rifles and heavy machine guns."
Witnesses spoke about bullet holes on the walls of the building closest to the entrance gate, as well as on a glass door of a balcony on the ground floor. Bullet shells lay scattered outside. Managers of the complex was not immediately reachable for comment.
Attempts by MaltaToday to contact the Maltese management at Palm City this morning proved futile.
A European worker, who declined to be named, said he was in the compound when the shooting broke out. "I was on the phone ... and I could hear the gunshots," he said. "They didn't know what was going on."
Three months after Col. Muammar Gaddafi was ousted from Tripoli, post-war Libya is still grappling with a lack of order and bristling with weapons.
Prime Minister designate Abdurrahim El-Keib announced his new government yesterday, which will have the tough task of asserting its control of a fractured country, building institutions from scratch and disarming militias.
Celebratory gun shots can still be heard sporadically across Tripoli and anti-aircraft fire could be briefly heard in the city.
Armed militias are acting as a pseudo-police force: setting up road checkpoints, directing traffic and arresting those they regard as criminals.
Earlier this month, heavy fighting between local armed groups killed several people on the outskirts of Tripoli.

Emergency Protest at Egyptian Embassy

Emergency Protest at Egyptian Embassy 5pm -6pm today (monday, 21 Nov)

STOP THE KILLING - NO TO MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

called by Wassim Wagdy, Egyptian activist from Cairo visiting Dublin today.

Please spread the word.

Emergency Protest at Egyptian Embassy

توقف العمل بمستشفى طرابلس المركزي(شارع الزاوية) نتييجة إضراب العاملين بالستشفى

علمت منظمة الراية لحقوق الإنسان بتوقف المستشفى عن العمل بسبب إعتداءات متكررة على الأطباء والممرضين العاملين بالمستشفى .

قدم إلى مكتب المنظمة بطرابلس بتاريخ 13\11\2011 بعض الأطباء العاملين بالمستشفى وقد قاموا بتقديم شكوى تتضمن الإعتداء عليهم بالضرب من قبل المسؤولين على الأمن بالمستشفى وقال الدكتور س أنه كان كان متواجدا بالعمل وكان في فترة إستراحة معا زملائه في مقهى المستشفى ، فأتى إليهم القائمين بالحراسات في المستشفى وقال لهم :- ماذا تفعلون هنا ، إرجعوا إلى عملكم .

وحدتت مجادلة بين الأطباء وعناصر الأمن ، وإستنكر الأطباء تدخل عناصر الأمن في شؤون المستشفى

وتسارعت الأحدات فتم الإعتداء على الطبيب س بالضرب المبرح من قبل عناصر الأمن بدون أي وجه حق

و واصال الطبيب كلامة حيث قال أنه في اليوم التالي ذهب ليشتكي فوجها صعوبات عدة لعدم وجود أي جهات أمنية متخصصه فالبعض يقولوا له ((لا نستطيع أن نعمل أي شيء لك )) ، ((والبعض التالي قالوا أنهم سيتدخلون لعمل مصالحة بين الطبيب والعناصر الذين اعتدو بالضرب عليه )) وأبلغنا الطبيب بعدم تواجد أجهزة أمنية تستطيع محاسبة الكثير من أمثال عناصر الأمن هؤلاء .

وتفاجئت المنظمة أنه تم الإعتداء على طبيب أخر في نفس اليوم 13\11\2011 .

ونتيجة لسوء الأوضاع الأمنية بالمستشفى وخوف الأطباء والعاملين بالمستشفى على حياتهم فقد دخل مايقارب ال 150 طبيب في إضراب عن العمل وذلك إحتجاجا على سوء الأوضاع الأمنية بالمستشفى واليوم 14\11\2011 المستشفى شبه متوقف عن العمل بإستثناء غرفة العمليات .

The US Congress is debating a law that would give them the power to censor the world's Internet

-- creating a blacklist that could target YouTube, WikiLeaks and even groups like Avaaz!

Under the new law, the US could force Internet providers to block any website on suspicion of violating copyright or trademark legislation, or even failing to sufficiently police their users' activities. And, because so much of the Internet's hosts and hardware are located in the US, their blacklist would clamp down on the free web for all of us.

The vote could happen any day now, but we can help stop this -- champions in Congress want to preserve free speech and tell us that an international outcry would strengthen their hand. Let’s urgently raise our voices from every corner of the world and build an unprecedented global petition calling on US decision makers to reject the bill and stop Internet censorship. Click below to sign and then forward as widely as possible -- our message will be delivered directly to key members of the US Congress ahead of the crucial vote:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?vl

For years, the US government has condemned countries like China and Iran for their clampdown on Internet use. But now, the impact of America's new censorship laws could be far worse -- effectively blocking sites to every Internet user across the globe.

Last year, a similar Internet censorship bill was killed before reaching the US Senate floor, but it's now back in a different form. Copyright laws already exist and are enforced by courts. But this new law goes much further -- granting the government and big corporations enormous powers to force service providers and search engines to block websites based just on allegations of violations -- without a trial or being found guilty of any crime!

US free speech advocates have already raised the alarm, and some key Senators are trying to gather enough support to stop this dangerous bill. We have no time to lose. Let's stand with them to ensure American lawmakers preserve the right to a free and open Internet as an essential way for people around the world to exchange ideas, share communication and work collectively to build the world we want. Sign below to stop US censorship, and save the Internet as we know it:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?vl

In the past months, from the Arab Spring to the global Occupy Movement, we've seen first hand how the Internet can galvanize, unify and change the world. Now, if we stand together, we can stop this new attack on Internet freedom. We've done it before -- in Brazil and Italy, Avaaz members have won major victories in the fight for a free Internet. Let's take the fight global, and mobilize to defeat the most powerful censorship threat that the Internet has ever seen.

Gaddafi 'bedded four women before holding trade talks with Prince Andrew'

Gaddafi 'bedded four women before holding trade talks with Prince Andrew' Aide who dyed dictator's hair claims: 'He would have his way with them like he had just blown his nose'
Libyan leader was addicted to sex and Viagra pills

By Craig Mackenzie

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Muammar Gadaffi bedded at least four women just hours before meeting Prince Andrew for trade talks, it was claimed today.
The Libyan dictator had a voracious sexual appetite and was so addicted to anti-impotence Viagra pills a nurse told him to cut down his intake.

The sordid world of the despot who was killed last month in the country's uprising, has been revealed by his manservant of seven years.
Voracious: Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi lived a life of extravagance and sexual addiction
Faisal, a young chef, cooked Andrew a 'traditional' dinner of tabouli, hummus and couscous when the prince met the Arab leader at the villa of one of his female friends.
Later Andrew, who's office has confirmed he dined with Gadaffi in November 2008, told Faisal it was the finest meal he had ever had and posed for a picture with him.
Trade ambassador: Prince Andrew had a meal with Gadaffi in 2008
The aide, now 29, said the royal trade ambassador discussed relations between Libya and Britain and an oil contract.
What Andrew was unaware of was Gaddafi's penchant for young women - many of whom were his bodyguards, according to Faisal.
He said: There were four or sometimes five women each day. They had just become a habit to Gadaffi.
'They would go into his bedroom, he would have his way with them and then he would come out like he had just blown his nose.'
Faisal, on leave from prison for the Muslim holiday of Eid, became friends with the bodyguards who were known as the 'Nuns of the Revolution'.
He told the Sunday Times: They all had sex with Gadaffi. The more canny of them became wealthy from his gifts of villas or large sums of cash.'
Faisal claimed that some of the women he bedded suffered so badly 'they went immediately from his bedroom to the hospital' to be treated for internal injuries.
His addiction to Viagra, said the aide, was so extensive that his Ukrainian nurse urged to him to reduce the number of pills he swallowed every day.

Gadaffi picked up victims at his former alma mater, Tripoli University, where he gave lectures and then led the young women to a nearby room whose only furniture was a double bed.

Faisal claimed that another aide was once sent to a sex district of Paris, to buy a machine that Gadaffi used to apparently lengthen his penis.
The despot was vain about his looks and demanded the aide dye his hair, cover up his baldness and use make-up and treatments with green tea to hide his wrinkles.
Faisal, who became a favourite of the dictator with his own house and car, sprayed a French-made lotion on the front of Gadaffi's head so his receding hairline would not be obvious.
The aide was forced to be his servant after death threats were made against his family unless he obeyed. Faisal was captured by anti-Gadaffi forces but is unlike to be charged.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060940/Gaddafi-bedded-women-holding-trade-talks-Prince-Andrew.html#ixzz1dcHNBnfG

Tunisians, Turks Can Enter Libya Without Visa

Ahmed Ellali 13 November 2011

The head of the Libyan National Transitional Council, Mostafa Abdul Jalil has recently announced that Tunisian and Turkish passport holders will be allowed to enter Libya without applying for a visa।

However, other nationalities such as Algerians, Moroccans, Syrians, and many other African Nationalities; are not allowed to enter the country without a visa.

Mr. Mustafa Abdul Jalil has sent official correspondence to TUNISAIR recommending that the airline should not accept in its flights passengers holding passports of the other nationalities who do not have a Libyan visa.

From the beginning of Libyan Revolution on February 17th, the Tunisian and Turkish governments supported the popular uprisings. Both nations have bilateral cooperation, open trade, strategic relations and a historical link with Libya. The government of Algeria was late in recognizing the National Transitional Council of Libya and has given sanctuary to former dictator Moammar Gadaffi’s wife Safia, daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal and Mohammed. Libya was the first Arab country to cut diplomatic relations with Bashar Al-Assad’s regime and has recognized the National Transitional Council of the Syrian opposition as the sole government of Syria. Libya is currently facing a diplomatic fallout with the many African nations that Moammar Gadaffi established strong ties to because they sent mercenaries to support the Gadaffi regime against the Libyan people.

The reality of Musa Kosa

Slain lensman's wife in plea to Libya's new leaders

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Oct 31 2011


The wife of photojournalist Anton Hammerl has pleaded with Libyans to help find her husband's body, which has not been found since his death there seven months ago.

"Dear people of Libya, we call on you to please be our hearts, eyes and ears in our search for the whereabouts of Anton's remains," Penny Sukraj-Hammerl wrote in a open letter posted on Facebook.

"Dear people of Libya, On November 5 it will be seven months since our lives became inextricably linked with your struggle for liberation," she wrote.

"On April 5, my husband, photojournalist Anton Hammerl, was gunned down by Gaddafi forces in the desert outside Brega."

He had been travelling with journalists James Foley, Manu Brabo and Clare Morgana Gillis, to document what was happening on the frontline.

They were arrested immediately after Hammerl was shot and were detained for six weeks before being freed. Hammerl's family only learnt of his death after their release.

Sukraj-Hammerl wrote: "I know your fight for freedom has come at a huge cost and immeasurably broken the lives of far too many families, who have been cruelly robbed of their brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters."

She said the family could not rest until Hammerl was given a proper burial at a site where his children -- Aurora, Neo and baby Hiro -- could go to.

"God willing, one day we will make a pilgrimage to Libya, to celebrate your liberty, but to also find our own sense of peace and visit the place in the desert where my beloved husband fell."

Dr Ahmed Sewehli on mental health support

Please see report from Dr Ahmed Sewehli on mental health support within Misratah. It is an extensive and detailed report that I am sure will be of great value to all interested in mental health for Misratah and greater Libya.

Do please ensure that you coordinate all mental health work in Misratah with Dr Ahmed.

aziz



On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:23 PM, ahmed sewehli wrote:


Asalaam aleykum
I have returned from Misrata to the UK for a couple of weeks following 6 weeks there working as a psychiatrist. I did over 120 consultations (documented), 2 radio programmes (with psychologists and imams), plus informal group therapy with surgeons and physicians, as well as training in diagnosis and management for doctors and psychologists. During that time I officially set up the Misrata Psychiatry Team with the approval of the Misrata Medical Committee and Misrata Transitional Council.. Dr Nagi Barakat is also aware of this team. I , along with my colleague, will be training at least 2 junior doctors with an interest in psychiatry, at least one of whom will be female. There is already a junior female psychiatrist preparing to join us from Benghazi- she visited Misrata and I found her to be a very good doctor who is willing to help and learn. We have 2 pharmacists on the team, one with a special interest in psychotropic medication. I am still liaising with colleague managers and doctors to get a more permanent place as an OPD/headquarters for our team (it is not a question of just getting a building-many people have offered their private premises, but there are a number of factors which the team are considering). We are not considering inpatient department at this time due to the small number of psychiatrists and NO psychiatric nurses. This of course is very difficult as I have seen a number of patients who definitely needed admission but had to be managed by their families at home with intensive follow-up.

In terms of women, I saw many patients with depression and PTSD, as well as those who already had chronic illnesses mainly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I saw just one rape victim. I am sure there are more (but unsure of how many more). I have visited the senior gynaecologists of Misrata to discuss this, and to offer my services should the need arise. I have also discussed this issue with MSF, who have a stereotypical Western view about this issue (including insisting as in their protocol that I offered the victim a document stating that she had been raped in case she wished to go to court or claim financial compensation in future), although on meeting further with their psychologists and head of mission they seem to now understand the culture of Libya in general and Misrata in particular. As we were taught whilst training in psychiatry in the UK, psychiatry differs in different parts of the world according to the culture and environment.

Now, there are many independent social groups, women's groups, cultural groups in Misrata, all putting in a lot of effort in their own ways to 'find and support the rape victims'. Some may be doing a good job, others may not. What I do believe is that there are too many of these well-intentioned people, indeed they may be more than the number of cases. Allahu A3lam.

Since going to Misrata I have been approached by many international TV and newspaper journalists on the rape issue. I have declined all interviews related to this for the following reasons: 1) the whole world already knows about this and Gaddafi's crimes, I dont see how shouting louder would make any difference. 2) This will not encourage cases to come forward, and may indeed keep people away if you are going to be linked to just treating rape.

Dr Seham Sergewa (clinical psychologist who appeared on CNN and alJazeera) visited Misrata for a seminar 2 days before I left. She stayed in the journalists hotel which she did not want to leave(according to her psychologist colleague) as she was concerned for her safety (there was no obvious reason for this). Note that she came with her husband. She was accompanied to this seminar by a Misrata freedom fighter with a machine-gun at her request. In my six weeks in Misrata I have not seen one person being escorted like that, and no one is carrying a machine gun unless they are fighters (not even my father who is in Misrata and is wanted by Gaddafi after escaping prison).
During her seminar, which was attended by about 60-80 people, she stated the percentage of rape complaints in Europe and the Usa to be up to 25%. She also stated the number of rape cases in Rwanda and Bosnia. Then said that there were 1300 estimated cases in Libya.
Then she said that this uprising was done by Libyan men without asking the women (??). Then she said that Libyans do not respect women who do not wear hijab (??). Then, after going into explicit sexual detail about what rape was (I was the only person who kept kicking the children out who should not have been there for such an issue anyway), wait for this, she said: Rape victims who are not treated will either commit suicide or become prostitutes! ......(she used the word 'da3ara')

After 2 other people spoke I got my turn. I had been keeping notes, which I still have. I critically appraised her lecture, including the fact that the number of rape complaints in the West was not applicable to Libya (for obvious reasons). Also that the numbers for Bosnia and Rwanda (where cannibalism was practised) was not applicable. Yes, there was rape in this war, and yes Gaddafi had committed these atrocities. I said that in Misrata rape victims would not become prostitutes. I finally said that any practical help would be welcome.When I finished she first said, in English: 'do not teach me!', then continued in A rabic to say how she was a professor and had a PhD from London, etc, etc, then she said: 'yes, dr, even in Misrata they can become prostitutes' . People around me were saying la hawla walla kuwata illa billah......

By the way her husband came out when the 'seminar' ended and said how dare I criticise her and that he himself was FRCS and that I had a 'closed mind'.I replied that I was criticising her presentation and not his wife, as we have been taught in training.

Anyway, this was just to give you an idea about things. My opinion is that I wish that all this effort is focused on all women in Misrata, and especially those suffering from PTSD, depression, anxiety, rather than just rape victims who cannot be found. One lady I saw was suffering from severe PTSD following the death of her husband in her arms after a Grad missile attack, and another lady was shot at with her children (yet all survived) and could not function anymore. Are they not important? There isnt even a psychiatric department in Misrata, which is the most basic essential need, yet hundreds of people locally and abroad are focusing, for some reason or other, on rape only. If we focus on all women, that will inshallah include all kinds of victims.

Just to end on a high note, Misrata is doing much much better than what I thought before I went, and the morale of the people is, mashallah, amazing. Everyone is doing what they can in order for the city to run effectively (including militarily), and people are very much together.

Inshallah I will be returning to Misrata within the next few days.

Ramadan Kareem Wa Salaam Aleykum
Ahmed

Dr Ahmed Sewehli
Head, Misrata Psychiatry Team
Misrata, Libya

Arraya Human Right Organization Human right violations committed by Al-Geddafi and his aids - unspeakable atrocities and crimes.

I- Eyewitness 1:-

- Taken by force to the criminal investigation general administration –Tripoli.

- Confined to a collective crowded cell with neither places to sit nor to sleep.

- Bad smells intensively and intentionally hurt the prisoners.

- Garbage, rubbish, and waste products were accumulating and amassing every day, when prisoners asked to remove these material they were answered “shut up O’garbages” .

- Limited meals and drinks, just few loaves of bread, cheese and water.

- The guardians were all black skinned, non-Arabic speakers.

- Ten prisoners were raped and filmed to compel the others to stop talking about these crimes.

- A cousin of the witness (who had helped bringing the witness to the prison) visited him in the prison warning him that he would face the same fate if he didn’t accept to fight with Al-Gheddafi brigades, our witness said yes I would, he got out of the prison and fled immediately to Tunisia.

- Unfortunately, the witness family still supporting Al-Gheddafi and refused to receive our witness calling him a traitor.

II- Eyewitness 2, Enas Ibrahim:-

- Date: 30-3-2011 to 3-4-2011

- Crime: torture and rape.

- Enas was forced out of her car at a chick-point led (face masked) to unknown area where investigated. Tortured and raped for three days, then one of the guardians helped her to escape and advised her to flee to Tunisia to avoid re-detention, the witness observed that another girl was torture and raped in the same place.

III-Bloody crackdown on peaceful Tripoli demonstrators.

- Area: martyrs square and adjacent streets.

- The Demonstrators were shot and fired. a considerable number of them fell dead, wounded and captives.

- Tripoli residents became under strict besiege, no one could enter nor exit.

- Friday prayers were constantly and mercilessly targeted.

IV-Eyewitness 3, wounded, put in the morgue while still alive.

- Ramsy Mohamed Zaroug, 35 years old Tripoli and Gheryan resident.

- His apartment was stormed by Sahban brigades; his elderly sick mother and father as well as his wife were insulted brutally.

- Ramsy was shot, wounded and dragged out of his apartment by his legs, brought to a hospital, a doctor tried to save him but the troops asked the doctor to put him in the morgue while still alive

- The perpetrators:-

Captain Salem Milad Al-Gheddafi .

Major Almadany al-Magrahy (Sahban brigade).

Ahmed Allamoushy.

V- Osama Ibrahim Al-boashi

- Detained on the 5^th of august 2011, according to the information given from Seham AL-Mennay (revolutionary committee member, detective, and armed TV broadcaster, dressed in military outfit).

- Osama, his computer and mobile along with two of his neighbors were taken at 01:00 am, hands-tied, faces masked.

- Osama’s charge was that his computer contained anti Al-Gheddafi data.

- The accused were severely tortured, insulted and hit with electric sticks by seventeen to twenty years old Libyan drug addicts.

VI- Abd Al-Salam Basheer Abd Al-Salam

- Detained (eyes covered, hands tied) by Al-Saadi brigades while he was going to the dawn prayer, according to data from Seham Al-Menaay (Al-Saadi brigades co-operator) taken to Arrijia custody where insulted, hit and tortured by different brutal means.

- Al-Saadi brigades stormed his father’s house confiscated 220,000 L.D (two hundred twenty thousand Libyan dinars), his passport and computers.

Perpetrators:-

Alhadi Al-Azrag.

Fathi Al-Shpoky.

Ashraf Al-Torky.

Aimen Al-Torky.

Ahmed Hussain Al-Mariemy.

Faraj Al-Tarhony .

Mohammed Al-Khomsy.

Al-haj Al-Zadma (brother of Abd Al-Salam Al-Zadma).

VII- Adel Ahmed Nasr

- Four gunmen fired at a peaceful demonstration on the 20^th of august 2011 killed 24 and wounded 40 others; the dead bodies were hidden by relatives and could only be buried two days after to avoid sniping fires.

VIII- Emad Ramadan Al-Shaabany.

- Taken from his house in 1995, killed in Abo-Sleem massacre 1996.

- His family was informed about his death in 2009

- From 1995 to 2009, prison guardians were receiving cloths and alimentation articles and gifts (supposed to be given to the prisoners) while in reality they were dead.

IX-Jalal Mohammed Shaheen

- On the 5^th of June 2011, a band of twenty volunteers broke into his house, arrested him and his wife looted all his house contents (money, gold, documents and furniture)

- Jalal was severely insulted, hit and tortured

- Perpetrators:-

- Sameer Al-Foghy (volunteer commander).

- Mohamed Al-Geloshy (detective).

- Osama Al-Phandy.

- Osama’s charges :-

- His mobile contained Anti-Gheddafi data.

- Contacted with Al-Jazeera TV channel.

- Contacted with NATO.

- Fueling the rebels.

Colonel Jomaa Al-Sayah released Osama and half of the Abo-Sleem prisoners.

X- I witness Amer Omar Mohammed Shtiwi

- On 17^th of July 2011 twelve cars stormed his house and took him into prison along with other sixteen of his colleges in single car which supposed only five persons.

XI- Abd-Alsalam Jebril Yasin.

- Tripoli resident detained on 5^th of August 2011 by Al-Saadi brigades upon false data delivered by Seham Al-Mennay who said that his house contain arms ammunition.

- Perpetrator:-

- Al-Hadi Al-Azrag (volunteer commander) with a band of volunteer.

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XII- Hussin Mohammed Hadiia Souid.

- Born in 1959.

- Detained on 8/3/1988 and since then no information about him.

- He was not released upon the amnesty in 2000.

- His brother Ahmed Mohammed Hadiia Souid Mobile No:- 092-5235596.

XIII- I witness

- The citizen Salah Ahmed Abd-Aullah Rizky 40 years old while was walking on the Martyrs Square he was snipped from an adjacent building (Taxes department of Ghiryan) and died, his brain was completely out of his skull.

- The victim could not be helped nor moved due to extensive sniper fire tell several hours later.

Perpetrators:-

- Sahban brigades.

- Five snipers where detained by 17^th February Revolutionaries.

XIV- Osama Al-Boashi.

- Alyarmok camp.

- Date 28^th of August 2011.

- 150 burned bodies and other massive graves where discovered.

- The bodies could not be identified.

- An eye witness was among the detained stated that the victims were shot with RBG missiles and life bullets, some of the prisoner them escaped.

All these execution were under the command of Al-Khmis Al-Gheddafi.

Human rights violation committed by the Revolutionaries.

I- Naser Altaieb date: 25/8/2011

- Violations: Car theft

- Area: Ain Zara.

- The revolutionary stormed the residents house’s late in the night searching a car but terrifying people.

- Another group said to be revolutionist apologized to the residents.

II- Nader Abd-Alkader.

- Date: 21^th of August 2011.

- Sedi Belal camp was burned and rubbed.

- Abd-Alkder Algeblawi Alwindi the commander of the camp who sent the students to the front lines to fight with Gheddafi brigades contacted Libyan TV Channel saying that rebels attacked and burned the camp.

- Janzour revolutionaries investigated the case.

III- Osama Alboashi.

- Date: 28^th of August 2011.

- A group of revolutionaries robbed and burned public and private property.

IV- Hani Ibrahim Algmaty.

- Area: Bir Alalem.

- Revolutionaries from Tripoli and Arada stormed and robbed my farm, house, and car.

Conclusion

Algaddafi regime has committed unforgettable crimes against the humanity.

These crimes and violations should be collected, documented, published, and propagated in different media forms.

Perpetrators should be brought to justice and punished as should be to justice to be a lesson for anyone who imitates Gheddafi regime and his abominable ways he used to suppress his opponents.

ARRAYA ORGANAIZATION

Take Action for Doctors in Bahrain - Put Pressure on Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI)

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has maintained its links with Bahrain despite the arrest of health care professionals for treating injured protesters. The RCSI has done nothing to vindicate the rights of even its former students who were arrested and forced to confess under duress. Instead the RCSI has chosen to side with the authorities in Bahrain.

The King of Bahrain is STILL a Fellow of the RCSI!

YOU CAN ACT TO STOP THIS

Please write to, ring and e-mail Professor Eilis McGovern President of RCSI

A sample letter is below.



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Professor Eilis McGovern
President
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
123 St Stephens Green
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: 01 402 2344
Email: emcgovern@rcsi.ie

I am writing highlight my concern at the inaction of the RCSI after the arrest and unfair trial before a military court of 47 doctors and nurses in Bahrain. There have been serious and credible allegations of torture made in relation to these arrests.

I am also appalled that the RCSI maintains its links with Bahrain and that the King of Bahrain is still a Fellow of the RCSI.

Among the doctors and nurses currently on trial are three doctors who studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dr Ali Al Ekri, Dr Basim Daif and Dr Ghassan Daif.

All three were arbitrarily detained, held in incommunicado detention, reportedly tortured, denied access to their families for two months and forced to confess under duress. These "confessions" were videotaped while they were blindfolded and are being used as evidence against them.

Additionally, Dr Ghassan’s wife Dr Zahra Alsammak, who also studied in Dublin, was detained for 25 days and is also facing charges.

I am calling on the RCSI to:

1. Publicly condemn the targeting of medical professionals who were simply performing their duty to injured protesters.

2. Publicly Revoke the Fellowship of the King of Bahrain immediately.

3. Call for an immediate independent investigation into the allegations of torture of medical professionals.

Yours sincerely

Syria’s bloody crackdown is fueled by oil revenue from Europe.

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Syria Forces Extend Siege on Hama as Toll Rises, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/world/middleeast/07syria.html

EU to tighten Syria sanctions, European Voice
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2011/august/eu-to-tighten-syria-sanctions/

Syrian rebels urge oil sanctions, Financial Times
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Syria steps up assaults on protesters, drawing first Arab League condemnation, Washington Post
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Syria protests: Troops renew attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators, The Guardian
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Libya: Opposition Forces Should Protect Civilians and Hospitals....Jul 13, 2011.

Libya: Opposition Forces Should Protect Civilians and Hospitals
Looting, Arson, and Some Beatings in Captured Western Towns
July 13, 2011

A looted store along the main road in al-Awaniya, which rebels captured in mid-June.

© 2011 Sidney Kwiram/Human Rights Watch

A ransacked kitchen in the abandoned town of al-Awaniya.

© 2011 Sidney Kwiram/Human Rights Watch

After rebels captured Rayayinah in mid-June, the hospital was broken into and ransacked.

© 2011 Sidney Kwiram/Human Rights Watch..More Coverage: Download Photos of Looting and Arson in Homes, Hospitals, and sShops in Rebel-Controlled Areas of Western Libya,
More Human Rights Watch Reporting on Libya.Opposition leaders should halt and punish all rebel abuses. The rebel authorities have a duty to protect civilians and their property, especially hospitals, and discipline anyone responsible for looting or other abuse.
.Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.(Zintan, Libya) - Rebel forces in Libya should protect civilians and civilian property in areas they control, Human Rights Watch said today. The rebel forces should hold accountable anyone from their ranks responsible for looting, arson, and abuse of civilians in recently captured towns in western Libya, Human Rights Watch said.

In four towns captured by rebels in the Nafusa Mountains over the past month, rebel fighters and supporters have damaged property, burned some homes, looted from hospitals, homes, and shops, and beaten some individuals alleged to have supported government forces, Human Rights Watch said.
Human Rights Watch witnessed some of these acts, interviewed witnesses to others, and spoke with a rebel commander about the abuses.

"Opposition leaders should halt and punish all rebel abuses" said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "The rebel authorities have a duty to protect civilians and their property, especially hospitals, and discipline anyone responsible for looting or other abuse."

Rebel forces seized control of al-Awaniya, Rayayinah, and Zawiyat al-Bagul in mid-June 2011, ousting government forces that had used the towns as a base for attacks against rebel-held territory - some of them indiscriminate attacks on civilian-inhabited areas. Rebel forces captured al-Qawalish on July 6.

In all four towns, some residents had left when government forces first arrived to fight the rebels in April and May. In all the towns but Rayayinah, most of the remaining residents fled when government forces withdrew, apparently fearing reprisals from rebel forces.

Al-Awaniya and Zawiyat al-Bagul are home to members of the Mesheshiya tribe, known for its loyalty to the Libyan government and Muammar Gaddafi.

The rebel military commander in the Nafusa Mountains, Col. El-Moktar Firnana, admitted that some abuses had taken place after rebels captured the towns, but said such attacks violated orders issued to the rebel forces not to attack civilians or damage civilian property. He claimed that some people had been punished, but did not say how many people or for what offenses.

"If we hadn't issued directives, people would have burned these towns down to the ground," he told Human Rights Watch.

In al-Qawalish on July 7, Human Rights Watch saw people with rebel t-shirts and hats, some of them armed, loading items looted from stores onto trucks with rebel markings. Five houses, which Human Rights Watch had seen intact the day before when government forces withdrew, were on fire. Three more houses and one shop were on fire during visits on July 10 and 11, and at least six other houses appeared to have been newly burned.

Al-Awaniya and Zawiyat al-Bagul appeared empty of residents during several visits by Human Rights Watch between July 2 and 10. Houses on three streets in al-Awaniya and two streets in Zawiyat al-Bagul that Human Rights Watch inspected had been ransacked. The stores along the main streets in both towns had been broken into and looted.

Local residents told Human Rights Watch that the Libyan government had brought members of the Mesheshiya tribe to al-Awaniya from other towns approximately 30 years ago, a resettlement that continues to cause tension with neighboring towns.

In Rayayinah, one resident who stayed said that rebels had looted medical equipment from the polyclinic after taking the town. Human Rights Watch visited the facility on July 2 and saw vandalized rooms, broken windows and doors, and evidence of missing medical equipment, including an x-ray machine and possibly an electrocardiogram machine.

The hospital in al-Awaniya, inspected by Human Rights Watch on July 3, was in a similar condition, with missing equipment, broken windows, and damaged furniture.

A medic sympathetic to the rebels told Human Rights Watch that he had participated in the looting of the al-Awaniya hospital after rebels took the town:

[The al-Awaniya Hospital] was very well-equipped, and we basically took everything. It was well equipped for Gaddafi troops. [Rebels] said that Zintan would be the central hospital for the region.... I heard that the equipment from [the] Rayayinah [polyclinic] went to Zintan too.

Human Rights Watch visited the Zawiyat al-Bagul medical clinic on July 3. It had also been attacked and looted by vandals.

The removal of the medical equipment and damage to the facilities would hinder the return of the civilian population to those towns, Human Rights Watch said.

Residents of Rayayinah told Human Rights Watch that between 300 and 400 people stayed in the town when the rebels arrived, including in the western part, which government forces had used to shell rebel-held Zintan. One of the residents told Human Rights Watch that he saw the injuries of three people from the western part of town who claimed to have been beaten by rebels, and one person who said rebels had shot him in the foot:

Their wrists were tied with dusty wire and they had been beaten. I saw three cases but there are more than that. One lost two toes when a fighter from Zintan shot his foot. I saw a lot of bruises on the face, hands, everywhere. Most of them have left now.

Some of the damage in Rayayinah was also caused by government forces during their presence in the town. Mohamed el-Mizoughi, a local resident, told Human Rights Watch that government soldiers had punished rebel supporters by arresting them, burning down their houses, and looting their stores.

The rebel commander, Colonel Firnana, explained the rebel violations as a consequence of the victims' alleged support for government forces. "People who stayed in the towns were working with the army," he said. "Houses that were robbed and broken into were ones that the army had used, including for ammunition storage." He continued, "Those people who were beaten were working for Gaddafi's brigades."

It was dangerous for residents of the four captured towns to return because of anger in the rebel-held towns that government forces had attacked, Colonel Firnana said.

"Opposition forces have an obligation to protect civilians and their property in the areas they control so people feel they can return home safely and rebuild their lives," Stork said.

Two other towns in rebel-held territory in the Nafusa Mountains, el-Harabah and Tamzin, are known to include Gaddafi supporters, but they have managed to maintain relations with both the Libyan government and the rebels. These towns have not been used by government forces since the February uprising began.

Opposition fighters in the Nafusa Mountains have detained roughly 200 government fighters over the past month. Human Rights Watch had unrestricted access to detention facilities in Zintan, Yafran, and Kikla. Some detainees complained of physical abuse at the time of capture, but said that conditions since then had been adequate.

Human Rights Watch has documented repeated indiscriminate attacks by government forces on civilian areas in the Nafusa Mountains over the past two months, as well as the use of landmines. In the town of Yafran, government forces unlawfully occupied a hospital for six weeks.

"Opposition forces say they are committed to human rights, but the looting, arson, and abuse of civilians in captured towns are worrying," Stork said. "This raises concerns about how civilians will be treated if rebels capture other towns where the government has support."