By Samuel Olara
Gaddafi’s death raises questions for the ICC over the brutal disregard for the rule of law by his executioners
Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the late Libyan dictator, has officially petitioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the circumstances under which her father Col. Muammar Al-Gaddafi and brother Mutassim were killed by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC), assisted by NATO allies in October 2011; which she said amounted to a war crime.
Aisha, who fled Libya two months before the capture and killing of her father and brother, claims she was caused “severe emotional distress” by the outrageous manner in which her father and brother were killed and thereafter, the treatment of their corpses.
Through her Israeli lawyer, Nick Kaufman, a former senior prosecutor at the ICC and now an international lawyer based in Jerusalem, Aisha wrote to the ICC prosecutor Jose Luis Moreno-Ocampo in December to demand an immediate investigation.
Kaufman wrote: “Gaddafi and his son Mutassim, Aisha’s brother, were murdered in the most horrific fashion with their bodies thereafter displayed and grotesquely abused in complete defiance of Islamic law. The images of this savagery were broadcast throughout the world causing my client severe emotional distress.”
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