{"id":9842,"date":"2011-12-03T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=9842"},"modified":"2011-12-03T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T20:12:20","slug":"black-women-report-rape-by-rebel-forces-in-libya-refugee-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/12\/black-women-report-rape-by-rebel-forces-in-libya-refugee-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Women Report Rape by Rebel Forces in Libya Refugee Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/libya_rebels_620x350.jpg\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9843\" title=\"libya_rebels_620x350\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/libya_rebels_620x350.jpg?resize=490%2C276\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Local officials, US ambassador shrug off reports<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The news doesn\u2019t get better for thousands of black Africans trapped in Libya, besieged by racist rebel fighters. In addition to chronic suspicion of being mercenaries for Gadhafi, women in one internal refugee camp say they are dragged off at night and raped by Libyans who fight under the flag of the new authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cThey come in firing their guns and taking people,\u201d a Nigerian woman told McClatchy. \u201cThey don\u2019t use condoms\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">US Ambassador Gene Cretz doesn\u2019t think the abuses are systematic or intentional on the part of the Transitional National Council, whose forces recently routed dictator Moammar Gadhafi. \u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s happening at levels below that, which is of considerable concern to us,\u201d he told McClatchy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">A local TNC official dismisses the claims of the women, saying he\u2019s received no reports of abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Thousands of foreign and Libyan blacks have been rounded up, imprisoned, and abused with only their skin color as evidence of their guilt, according to rights groups. The African Union has refused to recognize the NTC partly due to such abuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/09\/09\/black-women-report-rape-by-tnc-forces-in-libya-refugee-camps\/\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">Source.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials, US ambassador shrug off reports The news doesn\u2019t get better for thousands of black Africans trapped in Libya, besieged by racist rebel fighters&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,21,106],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-9842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discrimination","category-international","category-women","tag-libya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/libya_rebels_620x350_9842_92ef9.jpg?fit=620%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}