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The Tripoli Massacres: Abu Salim Trauma "Hospital"


August 30, 2011 - This really upsetting report came in from Andrew Simmons for al Jazeera English. He should rightly be messed up for life from seeing the scene of Abu Salim trauma hospital under rebel management. Nineteen corpses were dumped outside, and inside - trails of dried blood, desolation, no staff from any party to be seen, and an "acrid, sickly smell" of death. One room is simply stuffed full of the deceased, at least ten of them, probably twelve or so, on blood-smeared gurneys, covered in paper sheets. Two black men at least have a naked leg each sticking out. At least two others seem to be black-skinned judging by hair and/or the covers' transluscency, and the others I just can't tell. Segregated hospital? ...

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The Tripoli Massacres: Abu Salim Trauma "Hospital"

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August 30, 2011
This really upsetting report came in from Andrew Simmons for al Jazeera English. He should rightly be messed up for life from seeing the scene of Abu Salim trauma hospital under rebel management. Nineteen corpses were dumped outside, and inside - trails of dried blood, desolation, no staff from any party to be seen, and an "acrid, sickly smell" of death.

One room is simply stuffed full of the deceased, at least ten of them, probably twelve or so, on blood-smeared gurneys, covered in paper sheets. Two black men at least have a naked leg each sticking out. At least two others seem to be black-skinned judging by hair and/or the covers' transluscency, and the others I just can't tell. Segregated hospital? 

(See also, on rebel hospital management philosophies, Video Study: Hospital Brutality)

This new report I just feel needs to be embedded and seen, by those who can handle it, right here (or on its own page.:



The Patients: A Colorful and Chilling Mix
The living are terrifying to see as well. One that sticks with you is a delerious, nearly naked black man laying at an odd angle on his bed, with "severe abdominal injuries," all but convulsing and, I almost hoped, very near to death's solace. He does have tubes and bandages and what looks like a full colostomy bag, but no one was there at the moment to tend to him or the other six or more black victims lined up in their hospital beds on one side of the room (or is this a different room entirely from where the Arab patients are?)

The Arab patients seem better tended to. One man speaks freely (in Arabic, untranslated here), apparently a "Freedom Fighter." Another unconscious man with a bullet in his spine, it's said, isn't able to give us many clues. Another man looks away from the camera with the same grim intensity that I've seen on captured Gaddafi loyalists, but never this fierce. His face is laced with crusty burns, and his right arm missing, but for a stub.

Another patient is a nice-looking Arab boy, about twelve, who had a bullet (government, no doubt) removed from his chest and is recovering fine. Not to sound flippant, but was this his x-ray perchance? (see: The Sniped Tykes of Misrata?)  He flashes the rebel victory sign and pumps his fist, while looking at someone off-camera expectantly, as if to say "am I doing this right?" I hope I didn't get him beaten to a pulp for publicly noting that I saw that. 

Staff Rollover
The old, presumably loyalist staff was just gone. It's said they fled from the intense fighting, "leaving seven medics," Simmons reported. "Only two of them are doctors." Surgeons and nurses in a war zone, likely hardcore loyalists in the last Gaddafi holdout area, just fleeing the completely intact building as their compatriots lay bleeding to death in the field or in their own care? Of course, the rebels might retort with the usual subtlety - the regime was wicked, its people weak and corrupt...

What ambulances continued delivering the wounded to a place with no doctors? What doctors fled the victims already there without calling someone? One possible explanation is murderers from one side or the other running the place, killing the staff, dumping at least one in a (nearby?) canal (see here), and filling the place with some of their own dead and wounded victims. These were primarily black "mercenaries" of the type rebels have been slaughtering non-stop for months in city after city, this time with a couple token fighters from each side and another chest-shot kid tacked on.

The one staff member they talk to is described as a surgical technician, name not given.  He seems fairly young, despite the dark, deepset eyes and thinning hair. He walks with great ease and confidence to be any loyalist, although his allegiance wasn't specified. He's apparently been working there for days, saying that two patients died when electricity was cut two days earlier. He does not, on camera, rush around doing what he can to tend to the living. Instead he acts, I thought, as if he's written them off anyway. He simply shows them to the world, slowly, asking for their help to ease this horror that, quite clearly, was left to them by the fleeing regime.

He's clearly a rebel sympathizer at least, perhaps a fighter, and possibly involved in the clearing out of the old staff.

Death Toll
The guy they talked with said "I think more than 100" deceased persons were currently stuck at the hospital.  Simmons said "we left unable to verify the total number of dead. We saw 39 bodies. One had said up to 150 are kept there."  


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