The Lynching of Libya

The actors throw off the lynching rope and wipe away tears.

Lynching and personal revenge crimes are also reported in certain localities.

Moore's Ford Massacre Activists Reenact Racist Lynching as a Call for Justice

We don't want to talk about the lynching because it makes us face the ugliness in all of us, she said.

A coroner places a sheet over the body of one of the victims of the Moore's Ford lynching on July 27, 1946.

According to FBI files obtained by NBC News, more than 50 men from Monroe and the surrounding counties were suspected in the lynching.

The response of the Mission in such situations, including the lynching of alleged criminals, violent land and electoral conflicts and the taking hostage of local officials, undoubtedly helped lower tensions and may have saved lives in some instances.

He grew up in the segregated South, escaped lynching and all that during some really hard times, and he provided a really stable home for me and my siblings and a whole bunch of other people that fell on hard times.

Even as cheering crowds in Sirte and Tripoli were rejoicing at the despot s death, others voiced doubts over the manner of his humiliating end. The French public intellectual Bernard Henri Lévy, who had promoted the Libyan revolution with a strong dose of narcissistic showmanship, wrote that the lynching of Qaddafi polluted the essential morality of the people s rebellion.