Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Gaddafi ordered the planes to bomb protesters

Cairo (Editorial) .- The Libyan Air Force has bombed this morning several areas of Tripoli 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 chain Al Jazeera television. 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.

Over 500 fatalities and nearly 4,000 injured by the repression of the International Coalition against the War Criminals has risen to 519 the number of deaths registered in Libya since the outbreak of protests against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, reports Europa Press. 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. The most violent day came yesterday when the regime used the aircraft to bomb protesters in Tripoli, Benghazi and elsewhere in the country.

According to Al Jazeera, only yesterday, 250 people may have died because of bombing, some of them made even against the funeral processions for the victims of the previous days. Benghazi airport, destroyed and no operation during the morning have become to produce confusing information confirming that thousands of Libyan opposition has taken the country's northern cities, and Benghazi, Libya's second city.

Benghazi airport would be destroyed, after taking control yesterday by opponents who confronted the security forces of the regime and no planes could be ready to complete the takeoff and landing, as reported by Al Jazeera . It said the Tayura neighborhood, east of Tripoli, were still bodies in the streets today.

Yesterday, according to witnesses quoted by Al Jazeera, there were 61 deaths by the repression of public protests taking place in Tripoli, reports EFE. "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 of the participants in the demonstrations against the regime, after the barracks were abandoned by the soldiers.

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