Hussein Darbouk

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Hussein Darbouk
Died4 March 2011
2011 Libyan civil war

Hussein Darbouk was a colonel in the

2011 Libyan civil war, when he defected to the National Transitional Council.[1] Darbouk had been commanding rebel forces in the city of Zawiya.[2]

On 4 March, Alaa al-Zawi, an activist in the city of Zawiya announced that the commander of the city's rebel forces — Hussein Darbouk — was shot to death by fire from an anti-aircraft gun as the Khamis Brigade bombarded the city's western edges with mortars, heavy machine guns, tanks and anti-aircraft guns fighting armed Zawiyan residents and defected military units.[3]

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