“Four eyewitnesses reported that (Gadhafi) troops forcibly detained 107 civilians and used them as human shields to guard military munitions from NATO attacks south of Misrata,” said the PHR report.

“One father told PHR how (Gadhafi) soldiers forced his two young children to sit on a military tank and threatened the family: ‘You’ll stay here, and if NATO attacks us, you’ll die, too.'”…

Meanwhile, the chairman of the African Union said Libyan rebels may be indiscriminately killing black people because they have confused innocent migrant workers with mercenaries…

“NTC [the rebel National Transitional Council] seems to confuse black people with mercenaries. All blacks are mercenaries,” Ping said Monday. “If you do that, it means (that the) one-third of the population of Libya, which is black, is also mercenaries. They are killing people, normal workers, mistreating them.”