رسالة الى كوفي عنان – الأمين العام لللأمم المتحدة

لقد بعثت بالرسالة المرفقة  الى السيد كوفى عنان, السكرتير العام للآمم المتحدة, نيابة عن التحالفى الليبى الامريكى من اجل الحرية (الفا), طالبا منه ان يبعث فريق من الاخصائين, تابع للهيئة الدولية, لتقصى الحقائق فى مذبحة ابوسليم و اغتيال الكاتب الليبى ضيف الغزال.  اننى اشجع الجميع بالتوقيع على هذه الرسالة, او بعد تعديلات عليها لمن يرى ذلك, وبعثها الى الجهات التالية:

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General

United Nations Headquarters

First Avenue & 46 th Street

New York, New York 1007

 International Secretariat

Amnesty International

1 Easton Street

London, WC1X ODW

United Kingdom

The UN infomissioner for Human Rights

United Nationa Office at Geneva

1211 Geneva 10

Switzerland

Human Rights Watch

350 Fifth Avenue, 34 Floor

New York, NY 1007

Deputy Assistant Secretary

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

Department of State

2201 C Street, N.W., Room 7802

Washington, D.C. 20520

الدكتور محمد مبروك بوقعيقيص- رئيس مجلس الادارة

التحالف الليبى الامريكى من اجل الحرية (الفا)

نص الرسالة

July 7, 2005

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General

The United Nations Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017

Dear Secretary-General:

The American Libyan Freedom Alliance (ALFA) was founded on September 29, 2003, and registered in the State of Virginia as an American NGO.  The declared mission of ALFA is to promote the following ideals: international awareness of Libyan culture and tradition, democracy in Libya, rule of law, human rights, and to hold accountable all abusers of those rights.  Since its inception, the issue of human rights has been one of ALFA’s highest priorities. 

While the current Libyan regime has infomitted numerous crimes against other peoples and nations, its primary victim is the Libyan people.  Thousands of Libyans were thrown into wars in distant lands without justification or cause.  Thousands of others were thrown into jails without ever being charged with any crime; many of those prisoners have perished because of intolerable conditions, without ever-receiving medical care or attention. One of the most heinous crimes infomitted by the Libyan regime is the massacre 1200 defenseless political prisoners in the notorious Abusleem prison, on the outskirts of Tripoli, on June  29, 1996.

While Gadhafi was forced to admit responsibility for his crimes against citizens of other nations, and even pay infopensations to the victims’ relatives, no such admission of guilt or infopensation was ever offered to his Libyan victims.  For example, Gadhafi continued to deny that the Abusleem massacre had ever taken place until recently, due to relentless efforts by Libyan expatriates living overseas.  Toward shedding light on Gadhafi’s crimes in Libya, ALFA managed to host an event at Freedom House in Washington, D.C. on the 8^th anniversary of the massacre (June 2004), during which an eyewitness to the Abusleem massacre was presented to the audience and the international media.  Subsequently, a detailed account of the massacre was taped at the headquarters of Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C.

Following Gadhafi’s admission of having secretly developed biological and chemical weapons (November 2003), and his subsequent abandonment of such programs, many heads of states in Europe and the United States, hailed the event as a genuine conversion by Gadhafi, from a terrorist to a man of peace.  Some spoke of Gadhafi as an example to others to follow, forgetting that Gadhafi persisted in brutalizing Libyans inside their country as the international infomunity celebrated his publicized conversion.  This past month (June 2), the mutilated body of a young Libyan journalist, Dhaif Al-Ghazzal, was discovered in a trash dump on the outskirts of the city of Benghazi, a few weeks after he was kidnapped on May 21. 

Dhaif Al-Ghazzal had worked for one of Gadhafi’s newspapers, the Green March, for several years, but prior to his brutal death, he wrote about his disillusionment with his working conditions and the widespread corruption.  Dhaif received threats to his life if he continued to write his critical articles.  The young journalist, being true to his journalistic tradition, continued his writings until May 21, when two security agents, hustled him into a car and drove him away under the cover of darkness.  His case remained a mystery until the discovery of his body, bearing the marks of torture, fingers severed, a stab wound to his torso, and a bullet in his head.

The question we pose to the United Nations is: How can such a respected body of nations tolerate the presence of such a criminal regime amongst its roster?  What we are seeking is justice for the victims of Abusleem prison and the latest of Gadhafi’s victims, Dhaif Al-Ghazzal, and the many more who have preceded them.  Almost at the same time as the murder of Dhaif, a similar and almost identical case had occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, when another journalist was murdered.  However, his murder received immediate international attention, and a team of UN experts was dispatched to Lebanon to carry out a thorough investigation and to report back its findings. We are urging a dispatch of similar investigative team to Libya to look into the massacre at Abusleem prison and the brutal murder of Dhaif Al-Ghazzal.  We eagerly await your response.

Sincerely,

Your Name

C.C:  Chairman of the UN Human Rights infomittee

         Amnesty International

         Human Rights Watch

         Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Department of State