The Hague To Investigate Possible Gang Rape in Libya

Beyond the Veil| At the end of April, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice told a closed-door Security Countil meeting on Libya that Gaddafi’s troops were being issued Viagra to engage in gang rape to terrorize women in areas supporting Libya’s rebels.

Several diplomats said Rice provided no evidence for the Viagra allegation, which they said was made in an attempt to persuade doubters the conflict in Libya was not just a standard civil war but a much nastier fight in which Gaddafi is not afraid to order his troops to commit heinous acts. via CNN

Yesterday the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo told CNN that the court in The Hague will investigate the allegation of gang rape in Libya.

Moreno-Ocampo said the criminal court has information about women who were stopped at checkpoints and, because they were carrying the flag of the rebels, were taken by police and gang raped. 

Eman Al-Obeidy received worldwide attention on March 26, when she burst into the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli while journalists staying there were having breakfast. She told reporters she had been taken from a checkpoint east of Tripoli and held against her will for two days while beaten and raped by 15 men loyal to Gadhafi.