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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.
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1 ousted | |
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺 | |
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2 decomposing | |
腐烂( decompose的现在分词 ); (使)分解; 分解(某物质、光线等) | |
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3 locker | |
n.更衣箱,储物柜,冷藏室,上锁的人 | |
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4 slain | |
杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词) | |
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5 defense | |
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩 | |
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6 shrouds | |
n.裹尸布( shroud的名词复数 );寿衣;遮蔽物;覆盖物v.隐瞒( shroud的第三人称单数 );保密 | |
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7 disapprove | |
v.不赞成,不同意,不批准 | |
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8 hatred | |
n.憎恶,憎恨,仇恨 | |
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9 killing | |
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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10 autopsy | |
n.尸体解剖;尸检 | |
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11 abdomen | |
n.腹,下腹(胸部到腿部的部分) | |
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12 taunting | |
嘲讽( taunt的现在分词 ); 嘲弄; 辱骂; 奚落 | |
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13 crossfire | |
n.被卷进争端 | |
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14 detention | |
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下 | |
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a.摆好姿势不动的 | |
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16 ethnic | |
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的 | |
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