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March 30, 2012

NATO Must Investigate Civilian Casualties in Libya

New York Times, New York Times

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Tragic mistakes all too often accompany combat operations, even when the military objectives are humanitarian. That is what seems to have happened in the Libyan farming village of Majer last August. Amid the confusion of a rebel advance and a retreat by Qaddafi loyalists, successive NATO bomb runs there killed at least 34 Libyan civilians, including women and small children, according to journalists, human rights organizations and United Nations investigators.

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TAGGED: North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Libya, NATO

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