War Crime: NATO Deliberately Destroyed Libya's Water Infrast

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War Crime: NATO Deliberately Destroyed Libya's Water Infrastructure

The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya, while blaming the damage on Gaddafi himself. Since then, the country's water infrastructure - and the suffering of its people - has only deteriorated further.

Numerous reports comment on the water crisis that is escalating across Libya as consumption outpaces production. Some have noted the environmental context in regional water scarcity due to climate change.

But what they ignore is the fact that the complex national irrigation system that had been carefully built and maintained over decades to overcome this problem was targeted and disrupted by NATO.

During the 2011 military invasion, press reports surfaced, mostly citing pro-rebel sources, claiming that pro-Gaddafi loyalists had shut down the water supply system as a mechanism to win the war and punish civilians.

This is a lie.

But truth, after all, is the first casualty of war - especially for mainstream media journos who can't be bothered to fact-check the claims of people they interview in war zones, while under pressure from editors to produce copy that doesn't rock too many boats.

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This is a lie.

But truth, after all, is the first casualty of war ...

Indeed. This article is a very good example.

[Hermit]

It's a conspiracy, I tells ya.

[cronus]

Something gotta explain why they are all trying to drink the med dry out there?

[Hermit]

They're trying to escape the chemtrails, you fool. Or the fluoridated water Qaddafi has made them drink to keep them submissive. Or the Lizard People. Or maybe it's just the high lead content in the air caused by all those bullets buzzing around.