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to feel shocked at the coverage of Gaddafi's death?

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IvySedaiballs · 20/10/2011 18:56

I don't think she should have been killed like that. IMO he should have been captured, tried and then hanges or whatever. they had him, alive. apparently he was begging for mercy.
now he is dead and can not answer for his vile crimes.

none of the newscoverage that I have seen has addressed this, everyone is just celebrating. yes, he was a bad man, but this doesn't sit right with me.

also, showing pictures of hos dead body body on the six pm news?!

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IvySedaiballs · 20/10/2011 18:56

*the coverage

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chickydoo · 20/10/2011 18:58

Agree!

NinkyNonker · 20/10/2011 18:59

Hard to believe we were supporting him up until not long ago.

BCBG · 20/10/2011 18:59

I agree, Ivy, but I guess after weeks of combat it was always going to happen. He was offered safe passage, after all. It brings home that we are all part of whatever goes on and that can sit very uncomfortably with us when we can't pretend ignorance or watch a sanitised version. When the US killed Bin Laden they were careful to keep the cameras away but it was the same thing - a dead body at the end of it.

WhereYouLeftIt · 20/10/2011 19:00

BBC News has just been discussing that his death following capture does not bode well for the country, so it is being covered?

EdithWeston · 20/10/2011 19:00

Agree - UK/US accused Iraq of breaches of the Geneva Convention for parading bodies of the coalition dead on TV (the GC bans disrespectful treatment of bodies). But as this isn't technically a war, GC doesn't apply.

SpookhettiTwirlerAndProud · 20/10/2011 19:03

He's dead? I missed that! I knew they had him but didn't know they'd killed him.

FrightNight · 20/10/2011 19:10

I understand your view OP but i just don't feel we are operating within the ordinary parameters of decency when it comes to maniac dictators accountable for the murder of countless citizens.

Not entirely sure we outside Libya need to see his body to believe he is dead, but I can understand that it was important for the citizens of Libya.

My thoughts are with the family of PC Yvonne Fetcher.

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IvySedaiballs · 20/10/2011 19:11

whereyouleftit- I must have missed that bit when my toddler was laughing hysterically, it appeared to me as if everyone thought it was fine and dandy.
I am sure there was more of an uproar about bin Laden getting killed, maybe because he was responsible for 9/11.

The coverage has made me feel very uncomfortable - I do think he deserved to be punished, but after a trial.

I can understand the Lybians celebrating, but if he had been captured and tried, I am sure they would have been happy, too.

maybe I am too soft, I hate seeing footage of anyone being treated the way gaddafi was.

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FrightNight · 20/10/2011 19:13

Fletcher

Glitterkitten · 20/10/2011 19:18

I'm disgusted by it. Sickened. It's not only the fact he was trying to surrender when killed, it's the way in which his body was dragged round the streets afterwards. And the footage will no doubt give his supporters all the motive they need to make him a martyr and perhaps motivation to go on killing others in revenge.

MarthasHarbour · 20/10/2011 21:29

he showed his victims and their families no mercy. he was a tyrant and his suffering was nothing compared to what he subjected his victims to.

Secrecy · 20/10/2011 21:34

But didn't the 'new Libya' want to be different?

Birdsgottafly · 20/10/2011 21:34

The bloodshed by those trying to free him, or make them give him up, wouldn't be worth, him standing trial.

There are war criminals and tyrants that we have to judge completly different than we would normally, he was one of them.

Secrecy · 20/10/2011 21:35

Where do you make these boundaries? How can you say when to disregard the normal processes of law? Isn't that where he went wrong?

EdithWeston · 20/10/2011 21:35

Not just Fletcher, but also Lockerbie and every IRA victim killed by Libyan Semtex.

But it still doesn't warrant the broadcast of what is essentially a snuff movie before the watershed.

Birdsgottafly · 20/10/2011 21:36

Just to add it would have put the most vulnerable at risk as his supporters thought nothing of killing women and children and would use them as a bargaining tool.

Would you all of been happy to put your own family at risk to keep him alive?

troisgarcons · 20/10/2011 21:36

Never try and reconcile 'western' sentiments with other cultures. He was dealt with by his own people in a manner they saw fit. "We" didn't liveunder his regime. Although, I suppose, the fact he supplied the IRA might have an effect on "western"views.

Save your tears for innocents slaughtered.

FoxyRevenger · 20/10/2011 21:38

I heard a Libyan man being interviews on Radio 4 and he said he was glad he had been killed, because if he had been captured and tried, so many horrific memories would have been brought 'that the country would have been haunted' whereas this is more of a closed door, allowing the nation to move forward.

It made sense to me that he felt that way. Agree about the coverage though, no need to see a close up of a bloody corpse. Hmm

Birdsgottafly · 20/10/2011 21:39

"How can you say when to disregard the normal processes of law"

Whem mass murder/rape/mutalation take place. I would say the same of some of the African war lords.

They would have been called liars had they not shown his body.

Secrecy · 20/10/2011 21:40

Birds - we will have to agree to differ because I think that's exactly when law has to reassert itself.

EdithWeston · 20/10/2011 21:45

It's not what happened though - it's the editorial choices that were made about what was right to show pre-watershed (and I mean on the main 6pm news).

Birdsgottafly · 20/10/2011 21:46

I am happy to disagree, especially being from a family who left SA and hearing first hand stories of what happened to friends/neighbours of my family.

There are parts of the world that you cannot control with the ideas and principles of Western justice, you have to fight fire with fire.

Birdsgottafly · 20/10/2011 21:47

As long as there was a warning then you had the choice not to watch.

If there wasn't a warning then there should have been.

It leaves everyone in no doubt about his death.

southeastastra · 20/10/2011 21:48

i really don't get the op's view.

shall we all sit back and watch programmes about property and bunting and making cakes then and just shut our eyes and ears to what's happening globally

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