Monday, February 21, 2011

Gaddafi shoot at protesters: reports of hundreds dead in Libya

According to eyewitnesses, it was shot with machine guns on government opponents during a funeral march in the city of Benghazi. A doctor said his hospital - one of two in the second-largest city in the country - had run out of supplies.

After reports of the opposition within two days, at least 200 people were killed, but the protests are spreading. Before the Supreme Court in the Libyan capital, Tripoli demonstrated by eyewitness accounts on Sunday lawyers, judges and prosecutors against the use of force against demonstrators.


The death toll was estimated in Libya on Sunday from the site "Libya Al Yom" with 208th In the city of Benghazi was a part of the soldiers joined the rebels, it said. Some cities are to be or "liberated" in part, according to opponents. Be independently could not be verified this information.

In Libya, there are few foreign journalists, the Internet was shut down on weekends by the regime. Supporters: trailer Gaddafi in Tripoli on Saturday, the Arabic channel Al Jazeera reported on Sunday in civil war-like conditions of Benghazi. Eyewitnesses spoke of that the city had turned into a "war zone".

In Al Baida in the east of the country are reportedly out of the opponents of the regime now also armed gangs on the streets on the road. According to opponents of the regime should be among them "mercenaries" from African countries involved in the fighting in the eastern region. For the first time since the start of the protests and riots in the Arab world, it came on Sunday in Morocco on demonstrations for more democracy.

In the capital, Rabat, several thousand young people gathered majority in Parliament and demanded constitutional changes to work and reforms, a crackdown on corruption, and a new government. Also in Casablanca, Tangier and other cities joined the opposition to the calls of young unemployed people over the Internet portal Facebook.

In Yemen, on Sunday walked on the protests. President Saleh has offered the opposition on Sunday a dialogue. In Sanaa the President said he was ready to talk about all the "legitimate demands". Even in Bahrain, there was a cautious approach. There the opposition was discussing an offer of dialogue by Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa.

In Jordan, the government ordered an investigation into the violence during the recent demonstration on Friday. There is demonstrated for nearly two months, so far the protests proceeded without violent incidents.

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