Saturday, February 19, 2011

Libya: clashes, at least 84 dead

Clashes and violence. North Africa and the Middle East are still rising. After the change of regime in Tunisia and Egypt, protests and demonstrations follow in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and now in Kuwait. LIBYA - The Libyan security forces have killed at least 84 protesters in three days of protests against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

A support from Cairo is the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, citing telephone interviews with medical sources and witnesses said. In particular, the scheme would have killed at least 70 demonstrators in Benghazi, Libya's second city, while they are on the rise across the country in protest against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.


He reports the broadcaster Al Jazeera, quoting a local doctor who saw the bodies in the main city hospital. "I saw with my own eyes: at least 70 corpses in the hospital," said al-Wuwufaq Zuwaila, adding that security forces prevented ambulances to go to the places of the protests. Explaining that the government in Tripoli has blocked the signal in the village of Al Jazeera, the station also reports that, according to testimony, was also overshadowed the website.

According to an American company specializing in particular the Internet would be turned off across the country. The revolt against the regime was also implicated by the family of Colonel Gaddafi. There was also a son of Libyan leader, Saad, including loyalists of the regime that Friday night in the hotel have been besieged by protesters 'Uzu' hospital in Benghazi.

According to reports from the site "Libya al-Youm ', considered close to the opposition, Saad and others loyal to the Colonel would be able to get away from the hotel, but still stuck in the city. To free up Gaddafi junior, the government sent a battalion of 1500 security men led the son of Libyan leader, Abdullah Senoussi, whose task is to return safely to Saad Tripoli.

Friday evening, some residents of the district where the hotel is located had surrounded the structure to try to capture the son of Libyan leader. KUWAIT - Protests are also reported in Kuwait, where in an event held in Jahra, northwest of Kuwait city, there would be at least 30 wounded as well as 50 arrests.

In particular, the protest was fueled by the Bedouins who were not nationals of Kuwait. BAHRAIN - In Bahrain, the coalition Wefaq, the main Shiite opposition group, rejected the offer of dialogue made by King Hamad, stressing that the government must first resign and withdraw troops from the streets of Manama.

He reports the BBC, pointing out that yesterday were at least 50 injured during the funerals of four demonstrators killed in recent days. King Hamad Isa al-Khalifa asked the eldest son of Salman talks at national level to resolve the crisis. Even Muscat, Oman, was the scene of anti-government demonstrations to demand "democracy" and "more money and more work." Friday, after prayers, in the Ruwi business district, the capital of Oman, approximately 300 men and women demonstrating peacefully for about an hour.

Born in response to protests about unemployment and poverty, the small non-OPEC country has increased the salaries of national staff working in the private sector. Police Officers and first wounded also in the center of Algiers, where 400 protesters are challenging the ban to demonstrate in the capital of Algeria.

In the square on May 1, venue of the march of the opposition, the security forces to prevent stop. Any passer-by who stops being beaten by police, according to eyewitnesses. "The safety device - explains the website of the independent newspaper Al-Watan - is so massive, much larger last week, and actually almost hermetically closed the square." The march convened by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD) follows a week of another opposition rally in Algeria, repressed by the police with charges and arrests.

From the United States meanwhile came the condemnation of President Barack Obama, who said he was "very concerned" by the violence against demonstrators in Libya and also in Yemen and Bahrain. "The United States condemns the use of violence by governments against peaceful demonstrators," the president said in a statement.

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