Monday, February 21, 2011

Libya: shocking news

On Saturday evening was also the state-controlled media in Libya is no longer ignore the unrest. Until then, the spectators got the Libyan state television to see only crowds, the revolutionary leader Gaddafi cheered - but no protesters, who demand his resignation. Then claimed the state news agency Jana that the security forces would have several foreign "conspirators" were arrested, on television, there was this picture of a burning police station.


There are Palestinians, Tunisians and Sudanese arrest has been made. You may also be the Israeli intelligence in the foiled coup attempt involved, were the messages. Much like two weeks ago in Egypt at the weekend was apparently also in Libya on the night of Saturday the internet shut down for the most part.

The voices that penetrate further to the outside place, but close to all that shot down the leader of the mass of the people state, "the protests of their own people can be. Human rights activists and opposition figures reported up to more than 200 deaths within a few days. In the capital, Tripoli, security forces allegedly continue to have the situation under their control.

From the long-neglected east of Gaddafi, to which the protests continue to focus, there were conflicting reports about who has the upper hand. Unlike other Arab states, such as Bahrain or the weekend before in Algeria, is the ruling for more than 40 years Gaddafi have not been willing to respond to demands of the mostly peaceful demonstrators.

"It looks as though the Libyan leader ordered his forces to crush the protests at all costs - the price is the lives of Libyans," said on Sunday Malcolm Smart, who is with the human rights organization Amnesty International in charge of North Africa. More than a hundred deaths have there been in recent days.

The opposition website "Libya Al Yom" reported on Sunday 208 deaths in the past two days. The broadcaster Al Jazeera said a doctor in Benghazi, that it had given alone in the second-largest city 200 deaths. Eyewitness accounts give the impression that the Libyan leadership has found it difficult to stop the protesters, and which relies not only on the regular security forces such as army and police.

been compared with channels like Al Jazeera and the BBC reported from several Libyan cities that allegedly recruited mainly from Africa, dating men with money and are equipped with firearms. In Benghazi were several aircraft with such "mercenaries" and ended with special units of the security forces, it said on the weekend.

Gaddafi's son Saadi in Benghazi to command the actions against the demonstrators. This could be an indication that the revolutionary leader leaves in times of crisis, members of his family and his tribe - especially to those who have undergone military training. Born in 1973 Saadi had most recently tried unsuccessfully in Italy for a career as a professional footballer.

But before he had graduated from the Military Academy and holds the rank of colonel. In Benghazi and other cities are also members of Khamis Brigade have come to use that shot on Friday reportedly to participants of a funeral. It is named after Gaddafi's son born in 1980 and is estimated by the CIA as one of the best-trained military units.

Another son of Gaddafi - Mutasim - is national security adviser. Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam of which had in recent years made a cautious reformer attention to himself, was last heard nothing. Unlike Egypt, where conscripts were playing in the army an important role, it seems the regime in Tripoli to rely more on forces that are at the mercy associated with it - or to foreigners who have no connection to land and people .

Opponents argue in Benghazi were soldiers of the regular army defected to the demonstrators. While the Egyptian soldiers were hesitant at the end of their countrymen to shoot, which can be used in Libya's internal security forces in Libya shows no restraint: eyewitnesses and human rights activists reported on Sunday from Benghazi, that were with machine guns mounted on the loading areas of land vehicles on Mourners had been fired, which killed demonstrators carried to the grave.

This Saturday 15 people were killed. From the hospitals is reported that many victims had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, a fact which points to a deliberate intent to kill. Among the dead and an eight-year-old boy had been. Benghazi was like a "war zone," wrote resident in the Internet service "Twitter", others spoke of a "massacre." All this information can not independently verify, as the government vorlässt no foreign journalists and observers.

A group of 50 religious scholars and tribal leaders on Sunday called on all Muslims to stop, "brothers and sisters to kill. Stop the massacre now, "it said in the call that reverberated similar effect as the European leaders worried.

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