The daughter of deposed
Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi asked international prosecutors to
begin investigating her father's and brother's deaths as possible war
crimes in a letter submitted Wednesday to the United Nations Security
Council.
Aisha Gadhafi, who fled to
Algeria in August 2011, asked International Criminal Court Prosecutor
Luis Moreno-Ocampo last year to open an investigation.
Moreno-Ocampo "replied
indicating that he would announce his strategy concerning such an
investigation on the occasion of his next report to the Security Council
in the month of May 2012 and after taking stock of the investigative
activities of the Libyan authorities," the letter said.
"I would like to take this
opportunity to remind you that the Rome Statute founding the
International Criminal Court obliges the Prosecutor to investigate all
aspects of the Libyan situation referred to him by the Security
Council," she said in a statement delivered by her attorney, Nick
Kaufman.
The ICC initially demanded
that Libya hand over Moammar Gadhafi for trial after his capture, but
then opened the possibility that he could be tried in Libya. He was
killed by National Transitional Council fighters in October 2011, along
with his son Mutassim.
Aisha Gadhafi is a former
U.N. goodwill ambassador, as well as a lawyer who assisted in the
defense of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was hanged in
2006.
