Thursday, March 3, 2011

An NGO figure of 6,000 dead in the Libyan revolt

Violence linked to the suppression of the revolt has left 6,000 dead Libyan, half of them in the capital. This was said Wednesday in Paris, a spokesman for the Libyan League for Human Rights (LLHR), Ali Zeidan. "The number of victims around the country is 6,000, including 3,000 in Tripoli, Benghazi 2,000 in [the second largest city, located in the east] and thousands in other cities" as Zauiya or Zenten, has said the spokesman during a press conference at the headquarters of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) in Paris.

Ali Zeidan said that this balance is much higher than circulating until now, could be higher still. "It's what we have, but could be higher," he underlined. "The bodies of victims of bombings in Tripoli have been transported in trucks and buried in mass graves on the outskirts of the capital.

The wounded disappeared from hospitals, the power to erase the traces of their crimes," he complained. In Benghazi, the source of the uprising, Jibril Howaïdi, physician in charge of compiling the hospital said Tuesday balances the press that the balance for the city was between 220 and 250 dead, thirty bodies were not identified and 1,932 wounded.

The figure is very close to the provided Sunday by the International Committee of the Red Cross, who spoke of 256 dead and 2,000 injured in Benghazi. The previous balance of the FIDH-organization that owns the Libyan League, was at 640 dead and goes back to 23 February. The Libyan government spoke of 300 dead in total.

However, diplomats speaking environments and from 1,000 to 2,000 dead. The head of the accused LLHR further into Chad have a role in the action they have taken out foreign mercenaries to Muammar Gaddafi. "There are about 25,000 mercenaries in Libya, but not yet deployed all. They are led by two generals under the orders of Chadian ambassador in Libya, Chad, Deby Daoussa, brother of President Idriss Deby, has said Ali Zeidan.

The spokesman estimated that Tripoli has some 3,000 mercenaries from Chad, Niger, Mali, Zimbabwe and Liberia, and another 3,000 are deployed around the capital. Zeidan's view, the officers of mercenaries receive $ 2,000 per day and $ 300 soldiers, all from Libyan oil revenues. Ali Zeidan has claimed the shipment to Libya of a major humanitarian aid, while the World Food Programme (WFP, a UN agency), the threat of a "disaster", announced on Wednesday a plan for emergency food aid of $ 38.7 million (28 million euros) led to 2.7 million people in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia.

"The establishment of an air exclusion zone should occur without delay. We do not want to see foreign troops on Libyan soil, but if Qaddafi continues its repression and if people can not defend and is slaughtered, the international community should not remain passive, "he continued. For his part, President of honor FIDH, Patrick Baudouin, alluded to the "duty to protect civilians in danger" and called on behalf of the Federation of air traffic ban on Libyan territory "to avoid civilians being massacred by the Libyan aviation and to prevent bring more mercenaries responsible for complying with the dirty work of Colonel Gaddafi.

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