The following information is taken from Wikipedie where you will find links to all the detail given. The Western press never seem to notice casualities caused by there actions or those of their "rebel" group. According to our fair media, it is only Gaddafi that does the killing, we are always surgical and painless in our war efforts, and the people we support are good guys and would never do anything to harm anybody. It is the usual "fog-of-war" lies that the media peddle to keep you supporting the brutal wars, it is only bad guys that get killed. This will continue until we get rid of the state, its war machines and the partner in its festering marriage, corporate capitalism.
Deaths caused by anti-Gaddaffi forces.
Among the security forces there had been more than
1,700 dead, including civilians in support of the government, alleged
mercenaries and government soldiers. There have been many reports
that members of the security forces have been killed by both the
government and the opposition. Obviously as the fighting intensifies, so the death toll will riseon both sides, that's how we protect civilians.
On
February 18, two policemen were hanged by protesters in Benghazi.
Also, on the same day, 50 alleged African mercenaries, mostly from
Chad, were executed by the protesters
in al-Baida. Some of them were killed when protestors burned down the
police station in which they locked them up
and at least 15 were lynched in front of the courthouse in al-Baida.
The bodies of some of them were put on display and caught on video.
By February 23, the government confirmed that 111 soldiers had been
killed.On February 23, a group of 22 government soldiers attempted to
make a breakout from an air base near Derna, which had been under
siege for days by rebel fighters. Within hours, all of them were
captured and eventually 12 of them were shot execution style while a
13th was hanged by the opposition forces. Between February 15 and May
22, 37 former government loyalists were killed in Benghazi in revenge
killings by some opposition groups.
Toward the end of the Battleof Misrata (February 18, 2011 – May 15, 2011), at least 27
sub-Saharan Africans from Mali, Niger or Chad, who were accused of
being mercenaries, were executed by rebel forces.
Deaths caused by Coalition Forces.
There's been some collateral damage?
The Libyan official sources claimed that at least
between 64 and 90 people were killed during the bombardments on the
first two days of the U.N. intervention and another 150 had been
wounded. The Vatican news agency confirmed that in Tripoli alone, at
least 40 civilians died as a result of the bombing campaign.
According to the Libyan Health office, the airstrikes killed 1,108
civilians and wounded 4,500 by July 13.
- On April 1, NATO airstrikes killed 14 rebel fighters and wounded seven more on the frontline at Brega.
- On April 7, news reports surfaced that NATO bombers killed 10–13 rebels and wounded 14–22 near the eastern oil town of Brega.
- On April 27, at least one NATO warplane attacked the Libyan rebel forces position near the besieged city of Misrata, killing 12 fighters and wounding five others.
- On May 13, 11 religious imams were killed and 50 others injured when a NATO airstrike struck a large gathering in Brega praying for peace in conflict-ridden Libya.
- On June 19, at least nine civilians were killed in a NATO airstrike on Tripoli. Reporters saw bodies being pulled out of a destroyed building. NATO acknowledged being responsible for the civilians deaths.
- On June 20, 15 civilians including three children were killed by another NATO airstrike on Sorman.
- On June 28, eight civilians were killed by a NATO airstrike on the town of Tawragha, 300 kilometres (190 miles) east of Tripoli.
- On July 25, 11 civilians were killed by a NATO airstrike on a medical clinic in Zlitan.
- On July 30, 3 journalists were killed and 15 wounded in Nato attacks against the Libyan state TV Al-Jamahiriya, which continued to broadcast after the attacks.
- On August 9, the Libyan government claimed that 85 civilians were killed in NATO airstrikes on Majer, a village near Zlitan. A NATO spokesman confirmed that they bombed Zliten at 11:45 p.m. on August 8, 2011 and 2:34 a.m. on August 9, 2011 but said that he was unable to confirm the casualties. The Libyan government declared three days of national mourning. Reporters were later taken to a hospital where they saw at least 30 dead bodies including the bodies of at least two young children. The Libyan government claimed that the bodies of others killed in the airstrikes were taken to other hospitals. Commander of the NATO military mission in Libya, Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard said "I cannot believe that 85 civilians were present when we struck in the wee hours of the morning, and given our intelligence. But I cannot assure you that there were none at all".
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