Gadhafi Buried in Secret Grave in Libyan Desert
时间：2011-10-26 07:58:28
搜索关注在线英语听力室公众号：tingroom，领取免费英语资料大礼包。
（单词翻译）
Libya's ousted1 leader, Moammar Gadhafi, was buried before dawn Tuesday in a secret desert location five days after he was captured, killed and his slowly decomposing2 body put on public display in a meat locker3 in the city of Misrata.
Officials from the Misrata military council said Gadhafi, his
slain4 son Mutassim and former
defense5 minister Abu Bakr Younis were buried together after a brief ceremony attended by a handful of people, including three relatives of the dead.
Muslim clerics loyal to the ousted leader were ordered to pray over the bodies, which had been wrapped in white
shrouds6.
Libya's National Transitional Council is under intense international pressure to investigate the circumstances of Gadhafi's death. The Associated Press quotes an NTC statement issued late Tuesday as saying its leaders "
disapprove7" of any prisoners being hurt or killed.
The NTC added that "regardless of the
hatred8 Libyans held for Gadhafi...we did not want to end this tyrant's life before he was brought to court." It was the first time the new leadership has spoken out against Gadhafi's
killing9.
On Sunday, Libyan doctors performed an
autopsy10 on Gadhafi's body and said he died of gunshot wounds to the head and
abdomen11 during last week's takeover of Sirte. Cellphone video shows provisional government fighters
taunting12 and abusing a wounded Gadhafi shortly before he died.
Libyan officials said the former leader was shot in a
crossfire13 between his loyalists and provisional government forces. Fighters on the scene have acknowledged beating the ousted leader after his capture.
Peter Bouchaert of the New York-based Human Rights Watch said there are strong indications Gadhafi and Mutassim were "killed while in
detention14."
Meanwhile, the last top figures of Libya's former government - Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi - are reported
poised15 to flee to neighboring Niger. Officials in Niger said Tuesday the two are receiving help from
ethnic16 Tuaregs, a tribe that was among the former leader's strongest supporters.
Separately, Human Rights Watch has asked Libya's new authorities to investigate a possible mass execution of suspected Gadhafi supporters during the battle for Sirte.
The group says it found the bodies of 53 people who appear to have been executed in an area that was controlled by NTC fighters at the apparent time of the deaths about a week earlier.
分享到：
