Libya Live Blog - April 12 | Al Jazeera Blogs: "12:20pm
Captured rebel Libyan fighters have been found shot in the head with their hands tied behind their backs, Amnesty International said, adding it has strong evidence of other human rights abuses. Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had also deliberately killed unarmed protesters and attacked civilians fleeing fighting, Amnesty said, citing evidence gathered by its delegates in eastern Libya over the past six weeks.
The rights group said Gaddafi's troops appeared to have executed captured rebel fighters close to the town of Ajdabiyah. Its researchers in eastern Libya had in recent days seen the bodies of two opposition fighters who had been shot in the back of the head after their hands had been bound behind their backs.
Amnesty said it had received credible reports of four similar cases, where bodies of captured fighters were reportedly found with their hands tied behind their backs and multiple gunshot wounds to the upper parts of their bodies. Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's director for the Middle East and North Africa, said:
The circumstances of these killings strongly suggest that they were carried out by the forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi."
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