The violence that has accompanied the revolt against the Libyan regime has left 300 people (242 civilians and 58 military) as a board presented Tuesday evening during a press conference Seif al Islam, son of Muammar Gaddafi's number one. Almost half the victims died in Benghazi, the second largest city 1,000 km east of Tripoli and the focus of the insurrection.
This is the first official figures about the victims of the popular revolt which began a week ago. Were broadcast before a press conference at the premises of the television channel Al Libiya, launched in 2008 by Seif al Islam. So far, the toll has been confusing, but all figures were talking about hundreds of deaths.
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that 62 people had been killed in Tripoli since Sunday, when the protests reached the capital. The channel Al Jazeera on Monday spoke of 250 dead in the bombing of the capital. HRW did not give an overall figure of the dead, but on Sunday said that until then had been at least 223 dead.
Just hours before this announcement, Colonel Gaddafi himself vowed in a televised speech to restore order and threatened a bloody repression, ensuring that the regime "has not used force." "Libya will clean house to house if the protesters do not surrender," he said. According to witnesses contacted by AFP, violence, concentrated in Benghazi, the capital came on Sunday, while the quiet reached Benghazi on Monday night. 
This is the first official figures about the victims of the popular revolt which began a week ago. Were broadcast before a press conference at the premises of the television channel Al Libiya, launched in 2008 by Seif al Islam. So far, the toll has been confusing, but all figures were talking about hundreds of deaths.
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that 62 people had been killed in Tripoli since Sunday, when the protests reached the capital. The channel Al Jazeera on Monday spoke of 250 dead in the bombing of the capital. HRW did not give an overall figure of the dead, but on Sunday said that until then had been at least 223 dead.
Just hours before this announcement, Colonel Gaddafi himself vowed in a televised speech to restore order and threatened a bloody repression, ensuring that the regime "has not used force." "Libya will clean house to house if the protesters do not surrender," he said. According to witnesses contacted by AFP, violence, concentrated in Benghazi, the capital came on Sunday, while the quiet reached Benghazi on Monday night.
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