NATO is being sued for the killing of 13 innocent Libyan civilians,
including three children, during a June 20 air strike against the
home of a former general
in Libya. The suit has been filed
on behalf of Khalid el Hamidi, a former Libyan general and member of
Libya’s Revolutionary Council who lost his wife and three children
in the bombing.
Because NATO has
diplomatic immunity in criminal cases, Hamidi’s lawyer, Marcel
Ceccaldi, has filed a civil suit under Belgian jurisdiction, where
the military alliance is based.
In addition,
Ceccaldi is pushing the International Criminal Court—an
organization notorious for prosecuting African leaders while ignoring
the crimes of the United States and its European junior partners—to
take on Hamidi’s case as “an evident war crime.”
In July , in
defiance of the obvious bias of the ICC, the African Union told its
members to disregard an arrest warrant the court had issued for
Muammar Gaddafi.
