UN rights office urges inquiry into Qaddafi death
"It is unclear how he died. There is a need for an investigation," UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a news briefing in Geneva.
Referring to separate cell phone images showing a wounded Gaddafi first alive and then later dead amidst a jumble of anti-Gaddafi fighters after his capture in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, he added: "Taken together, they were very disturbing."
An international commission of inquiry, launched by the UN Human Rights Council, is already investigating killings, torture and other crimes in Libya.
Colville said he expected that the team would look into the circumstances of Qaddafi's death.
"It is a fundamental principle of international law that people accused of serious crimes should if possible be tried. Summary executions are strictly illegal. It is different if someone is killed in combat," he told Reuters Television.
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Well, the interim government, the National Transitional Council has always show the world that they are a respectable and civilised bunch. Based on this impression they made Britain, France and the U.S. helped them to topple Gaddafi's regime. The way Gaddafi was executed raised doubts about the NTC's abilities to stop further vengence killings.
@Ashraf P: do you have any record of this so called butchering? people like you are slave to Western media..
Where was the UN when Gadhafi was butchering his own people by the thousands?
s distrubing, how we Muslims are weakening ourselves... Gaddafi infurately orated in 2009 UN session, when he was 1stly nominated to sit in there. He courageiously showed mirror to UN, that how its descriminating against Muslim world..Those Arabs are going to Make Libya another Afghanistan, situations are going very according to plan of US, he would`nt ever let Muslim world alone and fortified..To the UN.: Don't bother wasting energy on this one.. I already have investigated the dictator's death.. He was killed in good and due form.. The end.
yeah ...(i believe this like the moon is square). See,they even investigate drone attacks too...