UK journo Sophie McBain's view of the Libyan revolution, one year on

Western Mainstream media journalists must surely be issued with rose-coloured glasses. According to Refugees International the France-UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition intervention in Libya has been a disaster for over 1 million refugees : "Throughout the conflict, more than 900,000 people – primarily third-country migrant workers – fled Libya to neighboring countries. Most of the migrants who crossed into Tunisia and Egypt have been evacuated to their countries of origin, either directly by their own governments or with the help of the International Organization for Migration and the UN Refugee Agency. Those unable to return home safely (including the approximately 5,500 refugees and asylum seekers from countries like Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Chad) remain in camps on the Tunisian and Egyptian borders awaiting resettlement in third countries. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced throughout the country during the conflict. Sub-Saharan Africans, dark-skinned Libyans, and other ethnic groups were widely viewed by opposition forces as Gaddafi sympathizers. Many were displaced from their homes and faced intimidation, arbitrary detention, and abuse by armed brigades and militias. Despite the formal end to the conflict, tensions persist throughout the country. A report issued by the UN Secretary General in late November 2011 confirmed that these vulnerable groups remain displaced and vulnerable to revenge attacks by armed groups" (see: http://refugeesinternational.org/where-we-work/africa/libya?gclid=CIi9sK-6qK4CFQJKpgodcWj2Qw ).

The Libyan authorities have estimated 50,000 people killed in the conflict in a country with a population of 6.4 million (2009). A genocide of "black" Libyans is continuing. Amnesty International's report details horrendous torture and murder of alleged Gaddafi supporters and states "

The Libyan authorities have so far taken no action against the militias who have forcibly displaced entire communities - a crime under international law. Militias from Misratah drove out the entire population of Tawargha, some 30,000 people, and looted and burned down their homes in revenge for crimes some Tawargha are accused of having committed during the conflict. Thousands of members of the Mashashya tribe were similarly forced out of their village by militias from Zintan, in the Nafusa Mountains. These and other communities remains displaced in makeshift camps around the country while no action has been taken to hold the perpetrators accountable or to allow the displaced communities to return home" (see: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=19948 ).

We are seeing (or rather NOT seeing for most in the racist, neo-fascist, warmongering US Alliance Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies) a Libyan Genocide with genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention: "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group".