Documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson was honored at the Academy Awards for his film “Inside Job,” a film which analyzed the 2008 financial crises.
Upon accepting his award Ferguson took the opportunity to issue a scathing critique of the US government’s lackluster investigation into the cause of the crisis.
“Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong,” he said.
Sky News has uncovered disturbing new evidence of the barbarity of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Benghazi, Libya, where the opposition movement has seized control.
Libyan revolutionaries in Benghazi claim to have rescued seven prisoners that had been buried alive.
They say the group was found entombed in a small underground cell in the city’s dreaded government compound – forbidden territory for 40 years, now overrun by the forces of revolution.
The rescuers said they heard voices underground and dug through earth and freshly laid concrete to discover the seven men, some of whom were barely alive.
Sky News was taken to the small underground chamber lined with breeze blocks and topped with new cement. There seems to have been no way in or out.
Their rescuers said some of the seven were anti-Gaddafi protesters and others were soldiers who had rebelled against the dictator.
They were now being treated in hospital.
The ground underneath the compound is yielding more dark secrets in a labyrinth of bunkers, prisons and armouries.
This was Gaddafi’s subterranean stronghold in the east of Libya. Its tunnels appear to have been stacked high with every kind of weapon.
Every box has been ripped open and ransacked by revolutionaries.
Among the debris we found labels for anti-tank jet-propelled missiles and rocket-propelled grenades.
Rack after rack of rifle stands have been stripped of their arms.
The tunnels are big enough to drive armoured vehicles through.
There are rumours of a five kilometre tunnel extending from this compound to Gaddafi’s mansion and farm outside of town. But so far no one has found it.
In another part of the compound there are prison cells.
On the ceilings inmates have used the soot from cigarette lighters to write their names and those of their girlfriends and wives.
Elsewhere is the guest house where Colonel Gaddafi would stay. The walls around it are windowless.
No one was allowed to peer into this secret world.
The villa extends underground to a maze of rooms ending with an exit tunnel for easy escape.
Above ground graffiti ridicules Colonel Gaddafi – one shows him as a clown.
Graffiti in Benghazi ridicules Gaddafi, depicting him as a clown
For years his clownish antics were a distraction. Only now are some of his worst excesses coming to light.
