Benghazi War Cemetery ransacked

Discussion in 'War Grave Photographs' started by englandphil, Mar 3, 2012.

  1. englandphil

    englandphil Very Senior Member

  2. Clint_NZ

    Clint_NZ Member

    This is sick, my blood boiled when I saw it. I am picking this is the work of a few idiots who have no knowledge of the background of the cemetery, their minds are so poisoned with propaganda that they see anything linked to west and attack it. However that doesnt excuse what they have done, I hope karma is a bitch.
     
  3. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Englandphil
    Sounds like another myth in the making- as in my view - we did not set about to "liberate" the - Cyrenicans - Lybians- or the Tripolitanians from the Italians- but rather to pull Mussolini down a few pegs by the astounding victory at Beda Fomm - then Ethiopia - then the Germans reacted to boost the Italians.

    In fact the Italians did more good in Tripolitania in cultivating the Desert to grow fruit and Vegetables whereas the indigenous people had done nothing - so we war just as big a menace as the Italians were.

    Clint has it about right - this is sheer hatred against the West ...

    Cheers
     
  4. -tmm-

    -tmm- Senior Member

    There is a comment on there that suggests this is an old video, and as such was only posted to fuel the fires.

    It's a silent video, with no context and doesnt appear on any news sites.

    In fact, a look at the profile of the user who uploaded the video tells you all you need to know. This person has a clear agenda, and as a result you cannot trust that the video is described correctly.

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  5. Vitesse

    Vitesse Senior Member

    This appears to be more ignorance than anything else. Note that the one stone you see being pulled up bears the Star of David.

    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4197457,00.html

    Currently on the CWGC site:

    Benghazi War Cemetery to be fully restored

    It’s now reported from Benghazi that two Commonwealth War Graves cemeteries have been damaged in attacks over the weekend – both the Benghazi War Cemetery and now the Benghazi British Military Cemetery. We are awaiting a detailed report but in both cemeteries, headstones were broken and disfigured. Both cemeteries will be restored to a standard befitting the sacrifice of those commemorated at Benghazi, but this could take some time because we will need to source replacement stones. We will also need to be sure that it’s safe for the detailed work to be carried out, but in the meantime we will ensure that temporary markers are erected over the graves. We have no reports of any maintenance staff being injured in the attack.

    Not apparently reported outside Libya and Lebanon is this:

    THE DAILY STAR :: News :: Middle East :: Libya apologises for attack on World War II graves

    .:Middle East Online::Koran-burning fury spreads: Libya apologises for attack on World War II graves:.

    There's a phrase gaining currency: "The religious right are neither". It's a pity they can't see that.
     
  6. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    In a way I'm glad my family's war dead are all on Memorials to the Missing.
    Noone can desecrate their graves like this.
    It's also a times like these I despair at how religion can divide people.
     
  7. Vitesse

    Vitesse Senior Member

    Just watching the newspaper reviews on Sky News. This story is all over the front page of that well-known bastion of tolerance the Mail on Sunday.

    As one of the journalists has pointed out, Christian and Jewish cemeteries are regularly desecrated here too. Not usually by Muslims either.

    Physician, heal thyself.

    Not that I'm suggesting that Mail readers would in any way be affected by its relentless anti-Muslim agenda and continuous linking of stories to Hitler. :unsure:

    Sh*tstorm no doubt breaking out on the Mail website even as I type ...
     
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  8. Donnie

    Donnie Remembering HHWH

    I dont care whether its muslims, christians or any other religious group responsible for destroying cemeteries. If i had it my way they would be strung up and beaten like those stones.

    Josh
     
  9. Mr Jinks

    Mr Jinks Bit of a Cad

    I dont care whether its muslims, christians or any other religious group responsible for destroying cemeteries. If i had it my way they would be strung up and beaten like those stones.

    Josh


    Good Evening Gentlemen,

    Well said! I wholeheartly agree very well put.The story is a little out of date I believe as there are now no immediate plans to replace the stones the graves have been marked with simple metal tags in the meanwhile following a second more destructful attack...the cross of sacrifice was also broken I believe.The Sunday papers are running with it;)

    Best

    Cliford
     
  10. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  11. PZULBA

    PZULBA Member

    Have e-mailed my MP (William Hague) demanding that the UK make strongest representations re this wanton vandalism!!!!

    Have also requested a number of my contacts around the Commonwealth & EU to take similar action;

    Tom Canning I think you have probably misunderstood 'englandphil' as I feel certain that he was referring to our recent (2011) efforts to assist the Libyans free themselves from a brutal (Gaddafi) dictatorship;

    PZULBA - Out of Africa (Retired)
     
  12. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

  13. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    PZULBA

    You may of course be perfectly right- but on a WW2 forum I would assume

    England Phil's context to be of that era and not last year's belated bout for freedom - as it

    was the graves of the British Commonwealth's 8th Army under O'Conner in his charge on

    Beda Fomm - and later with Montgomery with his charge towards Tunisia - but I am quite

    sure that England Phil knows what he meant....

    Cheers
     
  14. STAN50

    STAN50 Senior Member

    Clearly the people who wrecked the cemetery are far removed from what we term as normal. They clearly have no understanding of what they really have done because that is the way they are made.

    But consider this: You can't ruin a soldiers memory, bravery, life if you like, by knocking down and smashing up his or her headstone. What they were in life is in the heads and hearts of their friends and relatives and noted for all time in the history books of a certain time and age. That is what counts I think.

    Clearly though what has occurred needs someone to look into it. It would be interesting to know whether any sort of investigation actually has / will take place.
     
  15. Sussex by the Sea

    Sussex by the Sea Senior Member

    I will not be an apologist for these anti western people they are disgusting after what we did for them on Op Ellamy. Again as in Kosovo we are backing the Wrong people.
     
  16. Jedburgh22

    Jedburgh22 Very Senior Member

  17. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

  18. soren1941

    soren1941 Living in Ypres

    At least one good thing is that at least the Libyans will give them a decent punishment unlike the UK courts.... no play stations in jail out there
     
  19. Jonathan Ball

    Jonathan Ball It's a way of life.

    BBC News - Apology after British war graves attacked in Benghazi

    This line from the BBC report deserves highlighting..

    The BBC understands that at some point during the attack on the British Military Cemetery a group of older people intervened to stop it.

    Distinctly not the 'wrong people'. As there are the idiots in every society there are also the thoroughly decent too.
     
  20. cash_13

    cash_13 Senior Member

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