Gaddafi planned to kill opponents before uprisings

Wednesday April 06, 2011 07:29:57 PM, IANS

London: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had drawn up plans to kill his opponents months before the Arab uprisings spread to Libya, a media report said Wednesday.

Gaddafi was set on brutally quashing any demonstrations in his country as soon as he saw the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt in January, express.co.uk reported.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, said: "We have evidence that they were planning how to manage the crowds."

"The evidence we have is that the shooting of civilians was a pre-determined plan," he said.

"The planning at the beginning was to use tear gas and, if that failed to work, shooting," the Express quoted Moreno-Ocampo as saying Tuesday.

The revelation came as the first oil export in three weeks started from the rebel-held areas in eastern Libya. The one-off shipment of up to a million barrels was only a fraction of Libya's pre-crisis export, but was seen as a symbolic step, the Express said.

Gaddafi's forces, however, have been bombarding rebels outside the key oil producing town of Brega.


 

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