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September 23rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Patrick J. McDonnell
Los Angeles Times
Sept 23, 2011
Predominantly black refugees from pro-Kadafi Tawurgha may stand accused of war crimes. But the Misurata rebels who drove them out may face charges of ethnic cleansing.
The green flag still flutters from some homes in this desert town, a remnant of its profound loyalty to a longtime patron, Moammar Kadafi, who made green the signature color of his domain.
But the people of Tawurgha, more than 30,000, predominantly black, are all gone, refugees who mostly fled when rebels advanced last month from nearby Misurata with, former residents say, vengeance on their minds.
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The town, 25 miles south of Misurata, was subsequently looted, and many homes and shops were burned. It is now a desolate expanse of semi-urban sprawl where disoriented cats forage for food in pillaged supermarkets and sheep and donkeys wander along eerily deserted streets flanked by palm groves and homes fashioned from concrete blocks, now marred by anti-Kadafi graffiti.
With the revolutionaries’ victory here, Tawurgha’s residents have been barred from returning until a still-undefined process is completed to determine who among them may be guilty of war crimes, say Misurata officials, who accuse the pro-Kadafi Tawurghans of sundry offenses — among them raping women and shelling civilians during months of fighting. The enmity between the two towns is unambiguous and chilling. Reconciliation, a professed goal of Libya’s provisional rulers, seems a long way off.
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