Selected Translations
Here are English translations of some first-hand accounts as well as a relevant Arabic article.
Please submit good English translations here. We will post ex-prisoner accounts, other eyewitnesses to Gaddafi crimes, tapped phone calls from the former Gaddafi regime, statements of captured Gaddafi forces, and solidarity statements. Please also send in a source link - a video, audiboo, twiitter account, facebook page, or state "Live Phone Call" if it was a personal contact. Also please state if you want a name or twitter account tied to the translation, otherwise we will not put one up. Also, we love music video translations as well; they will be linked to our solidarity media page.
These are some of the subjects covered so far, with more that will be listed on the sub-menu pages as they come in:
Karima Hussein - Opinion - On the Leaders of Free Libya
Tapped Calls of the Gaddafi Regime - Libyan Wikileaks:
Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi's call demanded dead children from hospitals to be posed for a propaganda movie
- another intercepted call talks of killing Jibril
- another talks of how to hide the advance on Benghazi in March
Captured Gaddafi Forces:
In Bin Jawad, a soldier was forced to kill a young man in order to blame it on the Freedom Fighters.
A Sudanese Sniper was captured in the Nafusa Mountains and has something to say.
Ex-prisoners:
An Algerian describes his arrest and imprisonment
A Benghazi man spent 10 years in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli.
Freedom fighters freed 3000 political prisoners in Surman on 8/14/11
Two other Tripoli ex-prisoners describe their treatment here and here.
One ex-prisoner from Tripoli also describes how Gaddafi bribed people in February
Eyewitnesses:
The Tripoli Eyewitness from 3/11/11 speaks of the early days of the uprising and bribes paid to Gaddafi's supposed supporters.
An eyewitness after the massacre in the Majer area of Zliten describes why it looks like Gaddafi GRAD rockets, not NATO, killed civilians there.
A video of Misrata's liberation on 4/21/11 is translated.
Two Tripoli residents escaped to Tunisia and were interviewed on 3/22/11. They also refer to paid Gaddafi "supporters" and dead citizens posed to look like NATO casualties.
Another Tripoli resident describes the situation from the Tunisian border on 4/21/11.
Another Tripoli resident escaped to Tunisia and talks of Tripoli on 7/25/11. He also mentions that citizens were threatened in order to get them to attend pro-Gaddafi rallies.
On tweet deck by Ali El-Ehmer is a phone call from Djerba - one of tripoli feb 17 youth just arrived on 8/9/11. He talks of bribes, beatings, and informers.
A recording of a man in Zawiya cries about not being able to bury his son after Gaddafi's forces took the town from the citizens. Here is a recent Zawiya Widow Eyewitness.
Gaddafi Forces in Action:
Gaddafi forces taunt dying youth after raiding their home and shooting them.
Solidarity Statements:
Free Tripoli Women - response to Aisha
Youth of Tripoli 5/6/11