Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The army resumed its bombardment of the population in Tripoli

Libyan Air Force bombed several areas of Tripoli today as part of a crackdown on the protests that are taking place in the Libyan capital against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, said the Qatari TV station Al Jazeera. In these operations, according to witnesses cited by the chain, mercenaries are also involved, according to Al Jazeera, have joined the military and security forces in Libya to crack down on protests.

The testimonies, which come with a dropper, are alarming. The Italian newspaper 'La Repubblica' includes the testimony of Libyan Khamal entrepreneur: "Many women have been killed when they were offering water to the protesters from the windows of their homes. Have lost their lives for the freedom of Benghasi and Libya." "There were many marching, children 18 years old with 80, everyone has taken the streets to demand freedom, we want to see more of Ghaddafi, the Libyan people only want democracy and that the colonel is processed," he added the entrepreneur.

Another Italian businessman who has spent two years in Tripoli talks with Skype: "The situation is out of control, we talk about a civil war just because it is a war between Libyans and mercenaries in black Africa and Eastern Europe. It is a horror Tripoli is on fire. " Landing runway airport in Benghazi Libya, where many foreigners are stranded, is severely damaged, so no planes can land there, said Tuesday the broadcaster Al Arabiya quoted the Foreign Minister of Egypt, Ahmed Abul Gheit.

It is unclear if the track was destroyed by the Libyan army or the rebels with the aim of cutting off supply lines to troops deployed to that city, which has been in recent days, the epicenter of the protests against the regime of Colonel Muammar al Gaddafi. The channel Al Jazeera said the Tayura neighborhood, east of Tripoli, were still bodies in the streets today.

The death toll has already reached the 300 during the shooting and shelling of these days, according to that chain. "The war planes and helicopters are bombing indiscriminately one sector after another. There are many dead," said one witness quoted by Al Jazeera, Adel Mohamed Saleh. They have also been seen military helicopters carrying mercenaries Fashlu neighborhood, according to witnesses quoted by Al Jazeera.

Political activist Al Muntaser Zidan told the network that the Army General Abdel Rahman Zaid was arrested and communication with him has been cut Meanwhile, the eastern city of Benghazi, the second biggest, was now under control participating in demonstrations against the regime, after the barracks were abandoned by the soldiers.

For its part, the UN called today, through its High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, an international investigation into the violent suppression of civil protests in Libya and called on the Government to stop the gross violations of their rights citizens. "The callousness with which the Libyan authorities and their armed employees are firing bursts of bullets against peaceful demonstrators is inconceivable," said Pillay.

"I am extremely alarmed that when I speak with are losing lives," he said in a public statement. A representative of your organization stated that so far handled about 250 the number killed in the popular uprising in Libya, although nongovernmental organizations say the death toll exceeds 400.

In addition, medical sources have estimated the dead at 300. The International Coalition Against War Criminals has risen to 519 the number of fatalities. The Coalition, formed in 2009 by non-governmental organizations focused on the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, also of 3,980 reported at least 1,500 wounded and missing from last week, when demonstrations began, according to the television channel Al Jazeera.

The international organization Human Rights Watch has reported about 300 dead across the country since last week and the International League for Human Rights has raised the figure to 400.

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