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Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death may be a war crime: ICC

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has raised ‘serious’ suspicion that Libyan ruler Gaddafi’s death might have been a war crime.

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The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has raised  ‘serious’ suspicion that Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi’s death might have been a war crime.

"The death of Muammar Gaddafi is one of the issues to be clarified - what happened - because there are serious suspicions that it was a war crime," The Mirror quoted Ocampo, as saying.

He said he has sent a letter to the National Transitional Council head calling for the probe into alleged war crimes committed during the Libyan civil war

"We are sure there were massive rapes, quite sure. We're trying to define who ordered them," he added.
   
Gaddafi was killed in October after protests erupted against 42-year rule, which transformed protracted into a civil war.

Witness accounts and video of the civil war show he was beaten and abused after being captured, and was likely killed in custody.

Ocampo said the ICC would intervene in Gaddafi’s death probe and other war crimes only if the national government is unwilling or unable to take action, as established by the Rome statute.

Ocampo said the ICC is working closely with the Libyan authorities to probe Gaddafi's death, and cases involving his son Saif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, who were captured by the rebels.

Ocampo said the ICC has given the January 10 deadline to the National Transitional Council to inform about the progress of the probe.

He said the ICC judges would decide where al Islam and al-Senoussi would face trial if the Libyan Government challenged the court’s ruling.

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