{"id":89404,"date":"2017-11-15T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89404"},"modified":"2017-11-15T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:47:28","slug":"hillary-clinton-her-own-emails-reveal-that-shes-guilty-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89404","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton: Her own emails reveal that she’s guilty of genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Libya’s Slave Auctions And African Genocide: What Hillary Knew<\/h2>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

A new\u00a0CNN investigation<\/a>\u00a0has uncovered a network of slave markets operating in warehouses in various cities across Libya six years after NATO-led intervention in the country toppled the government of\u00a0Muammar Gaddafi in support of US and UK backed rebels. And not only did CNN confirm the presence of slave auctions where\u00a0human beings are being sold for as little as $400 in “liberated” Libya<\/strong>,\u00a0but CNN’s crew was actually able to\u00a0film<\/a>\u00a0a live auction in progress, while also gathering the testimonies of multiple victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though CNN’s\u00a0footage<\/a>\u00a0and accompanying report is shocking, such practices have been\u00a0quietly documented for years<\/a>, and\u00a0clear warnings were issued starting in early 2011 that Libya’s black as well as migrant population would be the first to fall victim<\/strong>\u00a0at the hands of the\u00a0Islamist Libyan rebels<\/a>\u00a0that NATO’s war empowered. From the outset critics of Western intervention in Libya loudly sounded the alarm of a genocide against black Libyans in progress committed by the very rebels the US, UK, France, and Gulf allies were arming –\u00a0a fact so well-known that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was personally\u00a0briefed and warned on the matter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nScreenshot of\u00a0CNN’s investigative video<\/a>\u00a0uncovering modern day slave auctions in post-Gaddafi Libya.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Dangerous Myth of Gaddafi’s “African Mercenaries”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the foremost of these early critics at the time, Maximilian Forte, Associate Professor at Montreal’s Concordia University, published a 2012 book which exhaustively documented racially motivated crimes which came early and often during the armed uprising. His book,\u00a0Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa<\/a>, contains essential summary context laying out the role that international media played in 2011 and after,\u00a0including CNN itself<\/strong>, in fueling the xenophobic campaign to\u00a0scapegoat Libya’s over one million strong black population as “pro-Gaddafi mercenaries”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Professor Forte<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Racial fear and xenophobia were at the very crux of the first public calls for Western military intervention, and were the basis for the first utterance of the need for a “no-fly zone” …\u00a0The myth of the “African mercenary” was useful for the Libyan opposition<\/strong>, the NTC [National Transitional Council] and the militias, to insist that this was a war between “Gaddafi and the Libyan people,” as if he had no domestic support at all…<\/p>\n

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As Patrick Cockburn explained,\u00a0the insurgents’ “explanation for the large pro-Gaddafi forces was that they were all mercenaries, mostly from black Africa, whose only motive was money.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gaddafi’s ‘pan-Africanist’ policies such as aggressive support for the creation of the African Union (in 2002), and a relatively open immigration policy allowing for the influx of\u00a0sub-Saharan African migrants to work on Gaddafi’s\u00a0massive building projects<\/a>, stirred resentment and discontent within broader Arab Libyan society in the decade leading up to the 2011 war. This was the historical background which set the stage for the anti-Gaddafi rebels’ extraordinary claim that sub-Saharan “foreign mercenaries” were being used en masse by Gaddafi to target protesters (later\u00a0proven false<\/a>).<\/p>\n

And these historic ethnic and racial dynamics\u00a0were well understood by the US government long before official support to Libyan militant groups began<\/strong>\u00a0– militants which were not only shown to have al-Qaeda links, but which declared\u00a0“open season” on all black Libyans<\/a>\u00a0and migrant workers during the revolution. As the\u00a0CIA’s own historical analysis of Libya’s internal dynamics spells out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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QADHAFI in 1998 adopted a decade-long pan-African policy that\u00a0enabled large numbers of sub-Saharan migrants to enter Libya without visas to work in the construction and agricultural industries.<\/strong>\u00a0Although sub-Saharan Africans provided a cheap labor source, they were poorly treated and were\u00a0subjected to periodic mass expulsions.<\/strong>\u00a0By the mid-2000s,\u00a0domestic animosity toward African migrants<\/strong>…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Similar to later developments in Syria, the media would uncritically echo whatever the “freedom fighting” rebels would feed it, thus this\u00a0black foreign mercenary trope<\/a>\u00a0became an unquestioned reality\u00a0spread from rebel propagandists to the Western public.<\/strong>\u00a0Libyan opposition members even began claiming to be victims of wild attacks by roving bands of machete-wielding pro-Gaddafi blacks wearing tell-tale yellow hard hats – a symbol which also falsely began to be associated with\u00a0“Gaddafi’s savage mercenaries”<\/a>\u00a0– resulting in subsequent mass\u00a0arrests and executions of innocent black migrant construction workers.<\/a><\/p>\n

CNN Spread the “Black Mercenary” Lie<\/strong><\/p>\n

The end result would of course be\u00a0the widespread targeting and scapegoating of an entire ethnic population within Libya.\u00a0<\/strong>This is demonstrated, for example, in the most well-known example of\u00a0Tawergha<\/a>, an entire town of 30,000 black and \u201cdark-skinned\u201d Libyans which vanished by August 2011 after its takeover by NATO-backed\u00a0NTC Misratan brigades.<\/p>\n

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\nA widely circulated photo from the Libyan war which shows rebels threatening to shoot a black man.<\/em><\/p>\n

But it is important to remember that\u00a0CNN itself at the time regularly promoted the false “black mercenary” narrative which helped fuel and excuse such atrocities,<\/strong>\u00a0even though it is now much belatedly investigating and decrying Libya’s\u00a0current migrant slave auctions<\/a>, while leaving out the essential context which enabled such horrors in the first place. For example, the following February 2011 CNN reporting\u00a0relied on unnamed opposition sources during the earliest days of the conflict to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Residents said\u00a0hundreds of mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa had been killed or captured while fighting for Gadhafi,<\/strong>\u00a0but much of the army appears to have gone over to anti-government forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And a separate CNN article from the same month – though acknowledging that no CNN journalists were even inside the country –\u00a0still uncritically reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Clashes broke out between a large crowd of demonstrators and\u00a0people who appeared to be African mercenaries<\/strong>\u00a0in the center of the city, according to an activist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet another broadcast segment from February 2011 – the clip of which appears to have since been deleted from CNN’s site (but which is\u00a0available on YouTube<\/a>), asks the question: in Libya\u00a0“just who is doing the dirty work?”<\/strong>\u00a0– while\u00a0answering<\/a>\u00a0that Gaddafi imported Chadian and Sudanese mercenaries to crack down on civilian protesters.<\/p>\n

And those few examples are but a tiny sampling of CNN’s consistent spreading the dangerous myth throughout the early stages of the conflict –\u00a0to say nothing of how ubiquitous the false rebel claims became among mainstream media generally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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US-backed Rebels and Ethnic Genocide<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the few international correspondents to actually report the truth in real time while writing from inside Libya was The Independent’s (UK) Patrick Cockburn. In an\u00a0August 2011 story he wrote<\/a>\u00a0as if attempting to warn the world about the future war crimes to come at the hands of the US-backed rebels:<\/p>\n

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The rotting bodies of 30 men, almost all black and many handcuffed<\/strong>, slaughtered as they lay on stretchers and even in an ambulance in central Tripoli, are\u00a0an ominous foretaste of what might be Libya’s future.<\/strong>\u00a0The incoming regime makes pious statements about taking no revenge on pro-Gaddafi forces, but this stops short of protecting\u00a0those who can be labelled\u00a0<\/strong>mercenaries<\/strong><\/em>. Any Libyan with a black skin accused of fighting for the old regime may have a poor chance of survival.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Subsequent stories of widespread torture and executions of black Libyans included a 2012 report in UK media which involved\u00a0anti-Gaddafi “revolutionaries” filming themselves torturing black prisoners<\/a>, making them eat the former Libyan national flag.<\/p>\n

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