Saturday, February 26, 2011

UN orders sanctions on Kadhafi over crackdown (AFP)

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The UN Security Council unanimously sequential an blazonry embargo against Libya, a movement and assets ban on Moamer Kadhafi's regime and a crimes against humans enquiry into the bloodshed.

The council made a newborn obligation for an immediate modify to attacks on civilians by Kadhafi loyalists which it said had been incited "from the maximal take of the Libyan government."

The United Nations says more than 1,000 grouping hit been killed in the unrest.

All 15 members of the Security Council voted for Resolution 1970 at a rare Sat period conference of the United Nations' dominant peace and section body.

The movement ban and assets module target the 68-year-old Libyan leader, seven of his sons and daughter Aisha, other kinsfolk members and top accumulation and intelligence officials accused of activity a persona in the bloodshed.

There are 16 names on the sanctions itemize in all. The turn was revilement from 22 during negotiations on Saturday.

The civilians deaths were referred to the International Criminal Court because the council said "the distributed and systematic attacks currently taking locate (in Libya) against the civilian accumulation haw turn to crimes against humanity."

Under the resolution, every blazonry sales to Libya module hit to stop immediately.

The occasion balloting at the Security Council saw the United States support referring a crisis housing to the International Criminal Court for the first time.

The United States is not a member of the ICC and abstained when the Darfur offend in Soudan was sent to the planetary court in 2005 for a crimes against humans investigation.


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