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    Text and photographs by Norbert Schiller

    Egypt’s President Mubarak (L) and Tunisian President Ben Ali seen fraternizing together 20 years before the Arab Spring would remove both leaders from power.

    The “Arab Spring” turned the tide against a number of Arab leaders who for decades had been synonymous with the countries they controlled with an iron fist. Those autocrats, including Tunisia’s Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh and Syria’s Bashar al Assad, who is still fighting a protracted civil war, shared similar histories and ruling styles, which led their people to revolt against them. Of all these despots, Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi occupied a category of his own due to his quixotic and capricious nature which tried the patience of his countrymen as well as his fellow Arab leaders. His most infamous displays of extravaganza were well documented in the media, but one less publicized incident includes a private tour of the Egy

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    ICC: African States Parties to the Rome Statute reaffirm their commitment to justice and their support to the ICC

    “African States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) met in on 8-9 June 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss their position on the ICC and international criminal justice. The meeting had been called by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who holds the current Chairmanship of the African Union, in an attempt to get African States to withdraw their support from the ICC, following the ICC arrest warrant against the Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. Instead, the Ministerial-Level meeting, from which Libya, Sudan and other non-States Parties were excluded, reaffirmed the commitment of African ICC Member States to the Rome Statute and to the fight against impunity.

    Statement by Sergio Stanzani and Niccoló Figa-Talamanca, President and Secretary General of No Peace Without Justice:

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    Amazonian Guard

    Female bodyguards of Muammar Gaddafi

    Law enforcement agency

    The Revolutionary Nuns
    الراهبات الثوريات
    ar-rāhibāt ath-thawriyyāt
    Common namethe Amazons
    FormedEarly 1980s
    National agencyLibya
    Operations jurisdictionLibya
    Specialist jurisdiction
    • Paramilitary lag enforcement, counter insurgency, and riot control.
    President responsible

    The Amazonian Guard (also the "Amazons") was an unofficial name given to an all-female elite cadre of bodyguards officially known as The Revolutionary Nuns (Arabic: الراهبات الثوريات, ar-rāhibāt ath-thawriyyāt), tasked with protecting the Muammar Gaddafi, the late leader of Libya.

    Formation

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    The group was formed in the early 1980s, after Gaddafi's official resignation as Libyan head of state in favor of the title of "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya". According to Joseph T. Stanik,