Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Armed Groups blood tarnished the riots in Libya

Tripoli (Writing / AP) .- The live-fire clashes between the regime, opposition and armed groups of people who support the dictator Muammar Gaddafi blood are tarnishing the peaceful uprisings in Libya. It has been shown in the last five days the popular revolts in demand for democracy and greater freedoms in the rich North African country, which accumulates extraordinary reserves of oil and gas, there seems to be developed in a peaceful manner as has occurred generally in Tunisia and Egypt.

Opponents could have taken the airport in Benghazi A Turkish plane can not land in Benghazi because opponents control the airport, according to CNN. NTV said the pilots of the Turkish Airlines plane failed to contact the civil aviation authority at the airport, so they were forced to return to Turkey.

The Turkish government, which has created a crisis center to gather information about its citizens in the countries affected by the riots, sent two ships to lift their citizens out of Libya, reports EFE. This past night has become to hear gunfire in the downtown streets of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, from armed persons, although other reports said people connected to the Gaddafi regime attempting to suppress the peaceful protests fired directly at demonstrators.

Protests against the Libyan regime and its leader, Muammar Gaddafi arrived this evening at the center of Tripoli and some neighborhoods of the capital, where they heard shots, according to EFE found and witnesses said. According to the Qatari television network Al Jazeera, at least two people were killed tonight in Green Square in the capital following the intervention of Gaddafi's son, Seif Islam, state television in which he said "will not allow chaos" .

There have been protests and clashes also occurred between protesters and supporters of Gaddafi regime in some neighborhoods of the capital, according to the chain. In the center of Tripoli heard gunshots and sirens of ambulances, EFE reported residents of the capital, where several foreign companies, especially big oil companies have decided to evacuate on Monday morning to their expatriate workers.

The shots continued to hear in some areas after the speech Gaddafi's son, who said the country is in "a very serious situation" and in danger of "civil war" but warned that "not allow chaos" and that the Army " remains and will remain faithful "to his father and the regime. Seif el Islam, considered by far the most likely successor to Qaddafi, announced "new laws and a national debate on a new constitution that can be opened from tomorrow if we agree." He stressed that the Army "will play a key role in restoring security, whatever the price because it is the unit of Libya" and said the Libyan military "are not those of Tunisia and Egypt." In this regard, he stressed that the army "remain faithful to Libya and Gaddafi until the last minute" and "destroy people who make a plot against the country." "Rather than mourn the 80 dead in recent days, if chaos comes, weep hundreds of thousands of our brothers and we are forced to flee our country," he said.

More than 200 killed in the riots According to the latest figures provided by Human Rights Watch (HRW), at least 233 people have died so far as a result of the repression of protests in several cities in Libya, with data hospital sources. Hundreds of armed men this morning attacked the headquarters of a South Korean company in the city of Tripoli, according to Seoul's foreign ministry was quoted by Reuters.

Four injured workers. The death toll from clashes between antigovernment protesters and security forces of the past four days in Libya has risen to 233, according to the American NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). Hospital sources east of Benghazi, the scene of the worst riots, have reported that at least 60 people were killed on Sunday.

Libyan ambassador resigns in India According to the British broadcaster BBC, the Libyan ambassador in India has resigned in protest at the violent repression of the Gaddafi regime has fired directly against peaceful demonstrators in the country.

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