Gaddafi dead?

[Ponders]

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The legality of showing Saddam's and his family's bodies is not beyond doubt - just because something happened doesn't malt it legal. However, it is unlikely any war crimes charges will be brought against Coalition leaders, or if there were whether this would be top if the list.

And do you think Gaddafi had any respect for or followed any of the Geneva Conventions? FFS!

"It's a side issue here, of course, because Libya was not at war and for that reason it does not apply"

I don't think it is a side issue, we're beginning to see how the new Government will work now Gadaffi has gone. And they'll probably say that they had to display the body for people to see, and that's not actually illegal. However how far they've allowed it to go could cross that line.

And it doesn't have to be a "war" or even international for the Geneva convention to apply and Libya is a signatory and therefore some (but I believe not all?) of the rules do most definitely apply.

Whether anyone will bother trying to apply them is another question, and again we're going to have to see how the new Government handles this and also what the international community lets them get away with. Will it insist that they follow the rules and punish offenders? Or, as we've so often done before, will we think that at least they're better than the last lot and not give a monkey's what they get up to?

All very good points.

What the NTC actually transitions into will also be key.

"And do you think Gaddafi had any respect for or followed any of the Geneva Conventions?"

Irrelevant.

He was a monster, and that was the excuse for deposing him.

Once again we see a new Government forming and the policy of supporting whoever comes along next and turning a blind eye to their "sins" has really not worked out for us in the past.

well it is not exactly irrelevant Badgers wrt Gadaffi having respect for the Geneva Convention.

These people who 'dealt' with him this morning, were Libyan people, who had lived under his dictatorship, probably lost tgheir own loved ones on his orders, their bodies discarded.

Leave it to them to decide how much respect he deserves.

"Leave it to them to decide how much respect he deserves."

So we might end up repeating the utter stupidity of turning a blind eye to a new Government's respect for human rights and international law?