A team from the International Criminal Court, ICC, is in Libya to probe sexual crimes committed by loyalists of the former Libyan dictator, Muammar Al Gaddafi during the conflict that ended his 42-year reign in the North African country. ICC investigator Ms Jane O’Toole who arrived in Libya Wednesday leading the team said they were in Libya to conduct an investigation into sexual crimes that were committed during Al Gaddafi’s rule. Ms O’Toole, who attended a women\'s conference where some Libyan women spoke of atrocities committed against them by Al Gaddafi officials before and during the rebellion, said their investigation would probe all aspects of major sexual crimes against women. \"We are not into investigating every crime but those which are most grave and those that are major crimes,\" she said on the sidelines of the women\'s conference, adding that the investigation would look into who ordered those crimes. \"We are still at the preliminary stage,\" she was reported saying Last June, ICC’s chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that the court\'s investigators have evidence that Al Gaddafi ordered mass rapes and bought containers of sex drugs for troops to attack women during the revolt. He said there was evidence that the Libyan authorities bought \"Viagra-type\" medicines and gave them to troops as part of the official rape policy. The ICC team headed by O\'Toole, which leaves Libya on Friday .
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