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there's no such thing as a clean war. the. more makes every sort of atrocity possible. rape has always been seen as an inevitable consequence of war collateral damage and opportunistic byproduct of conflict and conquest but today we know that rape is also used as military strategy as a weapon in its own right of all war crimes rape is the least likely to come to light.

in bosnia rwanda congo and syria women and children were the main victims. in the libyan conflict it is men who appear to have been the targets although proof has been hard to come by. even after six months of investigation there are still no leads the moment the word rape is mentioned in libya everyone falls silent only one person has dared to break that silence back in march twentieth levon at the very start of the revolution.

the man i obeyed accused the regime of raping insurgents her cry was heard around the world the dictator was toppled but libya was plunged into civil war. rumors of rape continue to grow. the international community professed concern but then the matter was dropped. libya has become a power keg. thousands of migrants pass through the country on their way to the mediterranean sea. the state has collapsed and two rival governments have risen in its wake armed militias rule the streets. rumors of rape continue but it's still not been confirmed.

one day the veil began to lift across the border in tunisia a former libyan official agreed to speak. i've never seen any libyan customers here i'm sure. but they don't say much. to manage their afraid and i tell you why is it libya there are many different alliances even if you never know. who's with whom. take me

for example out of school no one knows whose side i'm on when i talk to someone i try not to reveal who i am or who i work for the question everyone is scared of or you don't want to risk giving away information. you shall my. goodness for form of our fashion model melissa. in libya ramadan was a public prosecutor in the chaos following the overthrow of gaddafi in two thousand and twelve he sent militia members to prison for murder the very next day they were released and threatened to kill him. thank you my friend. ramadan left the country. in tunis he joined a group of libyan activists in exile. he spent months coordinating the activities of people who want to break through the silence and expose the crimes being

committed in their homeland all of the crimes. yes me too much to get up with. ever. so much to give the community that handcuffed from behind. me where is he now. i'm not accountable apparently in tripoli. and this video was filmed near let's watch it and then you can explain video of this so go to. the police. just. said he saw the light sadistic so. i said no. he

thought of the could yeah and then you know what imad. even though you know it happens because the victims tell you their stories in the car on a video and you see it with your own eyes. to feel really good to see if it came after you know. so to be with the other girl and they filmed it then let them go home until they killed those two. there's another one we don't see and was also part of the group. he was sitting back there. they did everything to him to go down his pants and shove the gun into him some of the penetrated him like this here in the video. when i asked if i could put it in the report he said no no you can write everything

but that. i wanted to help him. ok. i understand. in libya people say. if you say that guy was mistreated maybe instead of saying it's wrong they say what did he do to deserve it you know that's true you're part of some other they look for a reason they always say yes stuff hell he deserves it. didn't take us fifty years to get over this and there's a constant television. in libya rape is something unspeakable a to do so powerful that it must be silenced. an entire nation is in denial. to focus.

on. the man is an underground activist but he's determined to bring the issue of rape out into the open. to. him it has received death threats he carries his entire life in a suitcase and sleeps in a different place every night. in the limits of war when you see a libyan someone from your country doing such things i mean you feel ashamed. if you walk well of course but when i was in libya i ended up hating all libyans but i

have a corner but it's still my country called me soft over there everyone is fighting everyone it's a mess no sane person could be happy back in. and out and look after gadhafi is death in twenty eleven the world thought the war was over. the sea off may be able to have been terrible. but when gadhafi fell another war began not by the duffy but this. meant that. you should know if someone told you your brother was killed or your brother was raped because what would be worse my brother was raped looking.

for a long time yet seen remained in the shadows hiding behind his computer a tired and hesitant voice saying that he knew men and women who had been raped and who needed help in reality he was talking about himself. one day in november yasin arrived in tunis. us and you will have to hire. me and i did you can offer to pay a victim millions to testify in court she still say there's no way for me i can't tell you what happened to me so i don't want to be known a victim is afraid of being recognized he would be humiliated.

lack of the higher future feel or feel the fear is always with you. people come paranoid you think everyone knows it was the bit of it that said whatever happens they'll be no justice. that's the worst part a publisher. or the criminal who did this is walking free usually go back or. if you were to find out that i testified he would tell me. and everyone would not particularly here. it is winter in tunis the drainage system is overflowing and the investigation is at a standstill. he made and ramadan has spent months interviewing the victims they've

gathered a massive amount of information on the crimes committed in libya. but they still do not have evidence solid enough to be admissible before an international court of justice and they lack support. celine bonding knows libya well she's an expert on international law and a criminal investigator with twenty years experience tracking sexual violence in conflicts around the globe in two thousand and thirteen she helped draft a law intended to protect the victims of rapes committed under gadhafi regime. that law has yet to be enacted.

celing by day knows that war crimes will continue if the law does not intervene. she is determined to continue her fight. selene is going to meet emad and ramadan. we are. a team it's not just me and the mother we have many libyans here and we have our needs work outside on the ground and what we are trying to do we are trying to collect a lot of documentation from this year and organizations as owns two thousand and eleven. since ok since two thousand and eleven and two thousand and eleven. there is sometimes not just militias. do the crime there is people rocking. the ministry of the minister frontier

now we can deal with this kind. you know that recently at the i.c.c. for rape you know the case bamba he was sentence and he didn't rape nobody but she was sentence for rape because he ordered it for him knew that it was happening and he didn't do nothing so that's a very important case because night existing the jurisprudence and this is also something we can use in our our peaceful almost reshoots really so close of what you were to mention how we count toward to give up our team and you and your team to submit this piece is internationally going to you know of the idea is all the case you have each individual situation that you may have collected each time we

need to look at when you tap and and where it happens because if you don't do that you get killed before a court that's why i am telling the base we have to work on that and to to show our systematic it is you know and then you have a case. legally speaking. you are in the. in a special situation. because you cannot bring a case in india ok but it doesn't mean that it does to stop now i think we can work on that to put pressure towards international in stones you are going you know that nick cetera and prepare a case for the i.c.c. and we need to push for the i.c.c. so we have to show that this is a priority and to bring a something like. this room. i think that it is a paradox of international law for the international criminal court to agree to

take on a case the libyan activists in tunis must first establish that a work crime was committed in their homeland which the court will be able to prove . examines the files intrusted to her incomplete witness statements and fragments of medical records are a testament to years of persecution and abuse. we need to own the constant humiliation in the home in front of your children your family. suspect is destroying your dignity the dignity of your children and family and your community. becomes the battleground once that happens everything else follows it's like a. i don't know what to compare it to. it's.

sexual violence in war has always existed the rape of the say by and women as the spoils of war is that how the warriors reward. they all but there was a major shift in the one nine hundred ninety s. was equal at best what amazes me is that we didn't grasp the importance of that change it's a good effect that's when mass rape began to be used in bosnia in rwanda and so it continued. that's when we began to realize this was no longer a kind of collateral damage it had become a strategic instrument to start a name one example an example in the sun has whether it's boko haram or the islamic state there are written manuals on the textbooks in other words this was these are methods that are being developed and planned in advance that will sit back and not

simply spontaneous acts. it often takes years of investigation to document the use of mass rape in war for a med and ramadan this is just the beginning of a long process. but a lot of it's hard so i think we have a long way to go if we continue or we quit. and want to so i don't hide if i'm optimistic but i'm also afraid i must not say how long whenever i hear that fighting against it scares me. and later then if only they'd go out and fight in the desert but they come instead into the cities and attack civilians.

just seen has reappeared. this time he's ready to tell his story the revolution the seizure of the city of misrata by gadhafi troops and his attempt to escape. with me. what happened is very hard to describe. how do you know they rounded us up more than thirty people.

i mean mystic took us to the prisons and to welcome. them home but he thought i threw us out of the cars like gasoline that's in the canned and a d. our hands were tied behind our backs of our legs were tied. in the city so they toss this out. it's just like nazi and i know what you're going down to some fell facedown. of us on the shoulder ahead and we need a different one hot. in the head that the way you felt was a matter of law. and you called we went through the unimaginable. that if you will for hostler they tortured us in a special room. all the prisons in misrata are torture that. they knew with which the worst thing was to let us live one i did so that we would never forget what they did. in is that they never. can and

even in bush in the fall i can't talk about such things america says it's too difficult to solve. yet seen believes that what happened that night. in march twentieth eleven has made

him in fertile. but he's never had any medical tests he had no one he could trust. trueness provides him the anonymity he needs to see a doctor. here is this an old or recent injury. it's old. it's an old injury yet it does its thing yes it does all right come with me. yes he needs more tests and medical exams but it's too much for him once again he disappears. into nothing it's a method of domination killing for them is too mild it's pretty that's just a bullet there's no suffering. interest this way you make them suffer. that man

had an anal fissure a wound for him it's a physical thing it's like having an indelible stain a mark that says you were raped feel of you only literally every day well let him forget it's even ten years later. he's been raped defiled for life is very symbolic someone is humiliated made to submit and no one talks about it anymore not. someone who has been raped will never seek to dominate it's an instrument of submission is despicable but it's a weapon of war in europe with younger. let

me see you what libya is a pandora's box. now one crime comes out then another and then another. it's never ending he said often. is there a pattern a sequence of events. every statement by a witness however incomplete could contain details that add substance to the file that is being assembled. isn't from libya but she lived there she was kidnapped and raped like just seen during the siege of misrata now she's trying to come to terms with what happened.

six and she's sitting there i know it's hard was it you know i worked in bosnia there was no no in bosnia book or rape it was used a lot to humiliate the women of the media if and humiliate their husbands and in many different. fifty of them come on just like in libya that's why as part of my job i often talk to women who think it's their fault or don't know that this has happened to other people to their son. oh it's there's a lot that i'm sure all thought on last saturday i had a good one doc i know it's not my fault. but i never thought it would happen to me. what happened. riteish even though i knew such things could happen during the war but when i was given what i think i don't want to talk about the problem is that it's not like. it is for you in the west it's

a very difficult topic for us they're still doing it today i know they have orders to rape to humiliate and to where they came from gadhafi. told you that they. rape on command that's all fat mom wants to say but she does provide a few concrete details the soldiers' uniforms their weapons their vehicles a portrait of the soldiers who carried out the orders begins to emerge. so mirror was one of god obvious soldiers who is now in tunis on good days his gaze is open on bad ones it's a skull. his body is covered in scars. he says that what happened made him

go a bit crazy. some used units took part in the siege of misrata in two thousand and eleven he was witness to some of the early horrors of the revolution. us. during the war we went into people's houses. terrible things were done to them and. some soldiers rates people. but i can't tell you the battalions name. but it's completely true. the minute a soldier always follows orders. here base the officers about him. they tie up the brother the father and rate the daughter in front of them. you

want the revolution but say look we're raping your daughter and. others even rape the mothers. afterwards they'd say i was in misrata and i raked benghazi i raped at tobruk i raped what is this boasting. i raped your sister rape truck. but i did this to you i also rate joe mother well what kind of a fight is that almost. all of those i. almost took that after that the revolutionaries were even worse. when i was in prison so they did everything to what they teach us they starved us to think raped us we're going to repay you the duck because they said it was. so you know what i mean. the cold everyone uses violence but that's wrong.

and that destroys everything it is a country apart so. the first campaigns of mass rape were intended to crush the libyan revolution then revenge took its place libya's former rulers deployed rape. the new ones adopted the same tools it was a vicious circle. in the spring of twenty seventeen the international criminal court finally broke its silence it published an indictment against a senior official of the gadhafi regime who had allegedly ordered soldiers to commit rape stering the revolution the libyan exiles had to act quickly and they

had to gather more evidence in support of the case documentation to prove that rapes were ongoing. they had to go back to libya despite the risk. of course i'm afraid of who wouldn't be. here the militias are stronger than ever they can kidnap you and kill you on the spot. they don't even try to talk.

they catch you torture you and kill you and then they throw you by the roadside and that's it. who wouldn't be afraid. but i have no choice but the clock is running we have to continue our work the investigation must go on the ship of. libya has crumbled the capital tripoli is a volcano at times it is deceptively dormant at other times it erupts.

at the other end of the city a man is waiting for imad. after six years in prison he was released just two weeks ago. ali is just twenty nine but looks like an old man. kind of kind of has a to b. if you want to tell me something i'm listening to this lucky thing. almaty brahim died in front of my eyes. they said you're going to die you have to walk a dog may god help us. that they had dogs and commanded them to attack us. they had dogs. they came in and beat us. but all right now tell me what kind of abuse did you until you had torture and rape . torture and even worse q tell me. i can tell you what happened with the migrants and the to where. they threw them in

together. here in the prison yes they wanted them to mount each other. they shut them up together naked yes naked. the entire night. what else happened. with. it did you see prisoners get raped chauffeured yes but they won't talk about at least why i know. they had to get on top of each other to feel your style. but i didn't do it sounded ok. in the cell they'd come in and hit my genitals with

a stick. they'd say undress take off your clothes. and told me to get on my hands and knees. just look. good naked and yes. others away when. we were in single cells. guns so you were alone. and and then they penetrated you with things. with a stick or something else with. a stick. they out of the many times. that we thought that they had a razor. at them and if you moved. them they'd hit you with it or to.

show you another time now i have physical problems i have leakage from my bowels. to the islam that will come to me i understand. have you been treated. in. all. the times it goes away. that. early in tripoli and i met in tunis describe the same pattern the same methods abduction torture forcing migrants

to carry out rapes. the crimes appear to be systematic ones. but only reveal something new. because he's from the town of tal where a guy he was subjected to special cruelty. lead to where guns are mostly the descendants of black slaves. in libya they've always been considered second class citizens they were accused without proof of having supported got off the soldiers in the rapes they carried out in rebel towns and cities. as a result the to where guns have become the focus of hatred. emad is able to meet with to where going to activists who have recorded the abuses suffered by their community they have lists of missing persons former prisoners the

names of secret prisons precise dates. just. lose it. for imad one thing is clear his own people are being persecuted abducted and systematically abused. the lists are proof. they to where god has become a major target. the evidence exists mass rape has been carried out in systematic fashion what's more these where gonna have become the scapegoats of libya's war.

unless i lost the heads reached a critical point. you know any ordinary person can go get a gun and rape torture do whatever they want if you quit legal as acceptable some people even think it's a national duty. talking paul solved in order for us to start considering possible legal proceedings we have to analyze all of these documents and assess them in legal terms it's likely. it's very clear is that from twenty eleven on rape has been used repeatedly mass and on a mass scale to this day it's wrong that within that context there's the issue of the to wear model of the almost all by way of example during the bosnian conflict war crimes were committed as they were crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing . in stripper needs of a small place eight thousand people would have to say that town is just

a very small place in bosnia but there the crime was recognized as genocide because of the intent to destroy the people. and what we see here based on what i've seen and heard this seems like a very similar case so we have to find proof of intent who says and we may be able to find proof of intent to commit genocide against the to where going to people that the. war crimes crimes against humanity and possibly genocide. in libya six years of chaos have spawned a nightmare mass rape as a weapon of war including the rape of men. a weapon that serves to perpetuate a conflict that no one seems willing to end.

the activists based in tunis have done what they can. now it's time for the international court to take over. a year has passed since yes seen first came to tunisia. he now knows he's not in fertile in that at least his persecutors have failed. the survivors have spoken their voices are an accusation they hope the world will finally hear. the country they took on life before if i'd caught my tormentor back i'd have tortured him to death. but not an emo now and then my anger

has subsided a little daily a qualified came across my torture of today asked. i don't wait for justice to be done shuffle saying that initially i no longer seek revenge they're laying the course for me it's that i'm.

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