Denmark’s defense ministry said it would launch a review after evidence emerged showing its air force participated in airstrikes on Libya that killed 14 civilians in 2011, the first time any of the 10 countries involved in the NATO bombing campaign has acknowledged a possible link to non-combatant casualties.
Marc Garlasco, an adviser to the UN-established international commission of inquiry on Libya, which investigated human rights violations by all parties in the conflict, said he found the disclosures in the documents “quite galling” because NATO had refused to answer questions about civilian casualties at the time.
Ten nations, including six from Europe, participated in the bombing missions as part of NATO-led Operation Unified Protector, the codename for the western intervention in Libya, which ran for six months from 31 March 2011. It helped lead to the overthrow of the dictator Col Muammar Gaddafi but also ushered in a long period of instability in the north African country, which remains divided between east and west after a period of civil war.
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