Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Libyan Interior Minister resigns to join the revolution

Libyan Interior Minister and army general, Abdul Fatah Yunis announced her resignation to join the Revolution February 17, according to the news channel Al Jazeera. Qatari chain has issued a home video showing a Yunis sitting in his office, reading a statement calling on the Libyan army to join the people in their "legitimate demands." "Now our plan is to support youth in Tripoli," he said, while stressing not have ordered security forces fired on demonstrators.

Younes offered his condolences to the families of the hundreds of casualties since the protests erupted last week. "I begged him not to send aircraft Gaddafi. I called him. Of course we do not talk now, I've joined the revolution," he said. Younis said he was "shocked and disappointed" with the discourse of Muammar Gaddafi.

"I would have liked Qaddafi delivered a prayer for the young fallen in recent days," he lamented. Last Monday was the justice minister, Mustafa Abdeljalil, who left the government in protest against Gaddafi "against excessive use of force" against demonstrators. This cancellation occurs hours after Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi has led to people with a long and difficult speech demanding an end to the demonstrations and announcing the use of force to shut down these protests.

The resignation of Interior Minister added those of at least eight ambassadors from Libya in the last hours. Are dissatisfied with the repression of popular protests against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, according relayed on Tuesday Qatari television network Al Jazeera. Diplomats who have left their posts were the chiefs of U.S.

missions in Libya, Poland, India, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Australia and Ambassador to the Arab League, based in Cairo. The network interviewed one of them, the Libyan ambassador in India, Essawi Ali, who claimed that Tripoli "is occupied by mercenaries" and is using the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "against the Libyans." "They're doing terrible things against people," added the diplomat, referring to the use of force by police and army against participants in demonstrations that erupted on 17 February.

"Gaddafi must resign in order to stop this bloodshed. It has no legitimacy," the Libyan former ambassador now in New Delhi.

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