Libya teenager 'forced to become executioner'

A 19-year-old woman in Libya told CNN she was forcibly recruited to become part of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's renowned female militia and was forced to become an executioner.

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A 19-year-old woman in Libya told CNN she was part of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's renowned female militia and was forced to become an executioner.

“They brought one person in at a time and they said shoot him," she told CNN.

"There was someone on either side of me and one behind, and they all said 'if you don't shoot we will shoot you.'"

She says she was forcibly taken from her mother - who is battling cancer -- by the head of the unit-- a family friend.

She was trained here at the female military academy to handle weapons, banned from seeing her family.

Some of the other women at the academy were ardent regime supporters. Nisreen says she wasn't, but she couldn't leave.


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