Well, Dr Moussa Ibrahim, Sky News has that evidence. A Sky News team of three was trapped in Zawiyah as Gaddafi unleashed the might of his toughest brigade on the town – for days and days.

We saw civilians battling for their lives and we saw far too many of them dying. We saw the regime’s soldiers firing on ambulances (including one we were travelling in).

We saw the colonel’s men shelling residential apartments and firing so close to the main hospital that the windows rattled and the nurses were barricading the windows. We saw wounded children and women who had been shot in the head…

“This shows just what Gaddafi is capable of,” said Major-General Lorimer. Not even a sacred holy place was considered off-limits to Col Gaddafi’s men.