[An Nahar] A video that went viral on Friday on social networking websites showed a bloodied Moammar Qadaffy
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begging the new regime fighters for mercy after his capture.
Qadaffy was later declared dead by the National Transitional Council, Libya's new rulers.
Another video on Thursday showed the former dictator, his face half-covered in blood, being dragged towards a vehicle by a crowd, delirious with excitement.
Those at the front, pushed and shook him, pulled him by the hair, hit him until he disappeared from the screens amid a crackle of gunfire.
Disquiet grew on Friday over how Qadaffy met his end after being taken alive.
In Geneva, the U.N. human rights
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chief called for an investigation into the way the ousted Libyan leader was killed, saying that "the two videos ... taken together are very disturbing."
"On the issue of Qadaffy's death yesterday, the circumstances are still unclear," Navi Pillay's front man Rupert Colville said.
"There are four or five different versions of how he died.
"There should be some kind of investigation given what we saw yesterday."
A senior National Transitional Council official said: "No instructions were given to kill Qadaffy, and we do not believe our revolutionaries intentionally killed him."
But he acknowledged: "There have been rumors flying around since the killing of Qadaffy, after images were released, claiming that our revolutionaries slaughtered him."
He added: "I deny that we gave orders to kill Qadaffy."
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