A torn portrait of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. A torn portrait of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Photo: AFP
A LIBYAN father killed his three daughters after pro-Gaddafi soldiers raped them, in an attempt to rid the family of the shame, a human rights group says.
Soldiers raped the sisters aged 15, 17 and 18 , in the town of Tomina, east Libya, US-based Physicians for Human Rights said.
When they returned home, their father slit their throats in what the rights group said was most likely an honour killing.
The Gaddafi regime used civilians as human shields and placed children on tanks to deter NATO air strikes, the organisation said. It also found evidence of a pattern of murders, rapes ''disappearances'' and other war crimes during an investigation in the city of Misrata in June.
''Four eyewitnesses reported that troops forcibly detained 107 civilians and used them as human shields to guard military munitions from NATO attacks south of Misrata,'' the report said.
The group also said a witness reported that a primary school in the city had been turned into a detention site where Gaddafi troops ''raped women and girls as young as 14 years old''.
Meanwhile, rebel leaders have rejected United Nations plans to send a hundreds-strong international force into liberated Libya, insisting they will secure the country themselves.
A leaked document drafted by a Libya taskforce reporting to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for up to 200 military observers and 190 UN police to help to stabilise the country.
The observers would oversee the process of dealing with combatants who had surrendered after fighting for Muammar Gaddafi, while the police would have helped train local forces.
It is thought that Jordan and Turkey had been approached over the role of heading the multinational force.
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