Sunday, March 27, 2011

The pro democrátricas enter Ajdabiya

Pro-democracy forces have entered this morning in Ajdabiya. The planes from France and Britain have been destroyed during the night the artillery pieces and armored cars that dominated the Libyan army access to the city. Be seen whether the rebels will now be able to maintain position. After the rebel victory, the troops of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, are retreating toward the oil town of Brega, in the East, after losing his place, as reported rebelbes and witnesses told Reuters.

The Libyan authorities have admitted defeat in Ajdabiya. According to the official news agency Jana, a military source said the French military aircraft "and the allied forces of the crusaders" have committed this morning "a horrible massacre" in the city and its surroundings. According to this source the victims are counted by hundreds, including women and children, reports EFE.

Ajdabiya is a city of great strategic importance. It is the gateway to the Cyrenaica, the region held by rebels since the beginning of the revolution on 17 February. Reassert control domain is the territory that should allow for the offensive against the west to Misrata, where you fight hard, and also Ras Lanuf.

A week ago, when France with its air strikes forced the removal of Qadhafi on the outskirts of Benghazi, the front just moved. The Libyan army, leaving Benghazi, retreated about Ajdabiya and that has continued until this last night. Early in the morning, the rebels have sent reinforcements from Benghazi.

These are volunteers equipped with light weapons in trucks on which they can have mounted a machine gun. Nothing that the Libyan army can not settle at a stroke. Allied aircraft, however, keeps him at bay. Last night destroyed at least four armored vehicles stationed on the ring road of Ajdabiya, controlling the main entrances and rocket batteries.

Eliminated these defenses, the rebels could enter the city. Within the situation is very fluid, with pockets of entrenched gadafistas in several buildings that will not be easy to remove them. Ajdabiya Upon entering, the rebels have seen the funerals of victims of Friday's attacks, which have been buried this morning.

There was, according to reports, more than a dozen. It will be impossible to determine whether they died of heat gadafistas of The rebels or the Allied air attacks. The rebels, very few heavy weapons, have begun to export oil. A tanker docked on Friday night at the dock of the Tobruk refinery, which operates at full capacity.

This is to enable the National Transitional Council, protogobierno rebel, get the necessary foreign exchange to rearm. The sea blockade imposed by NATO only affects the 965 kilometers of coastline under the control of Gaddafi. Cyrenaica, in rebel hands, is free from the blockage. Gaddafi pledges to the Organization for African Unity, meeting in Addis Ababa, that carry out political reform to allow free elections, has fallen on deaf ears in Benghazi, where the rebel leadership has reiterated that it will not negotiate and their only goal is to see Qaddafi out of power.

4,000 people have crossed the border with Tunisia in 24 hours the other hand, on the other end of the country almost 4,000 people have crossed in the last 24 hours, the border between Libya and Tunisia for the border crossing at Ras Jedir, of which more than 1,600 are Libyans, according to the Tunisian state agency TAP.

At present, according to TAP, in the camp for displaced Chouchen established near the border after the onset of the crisis in Libya and to the mass flight of more than 1.5 million immigrants residing in the country North African, there are 8,346 people. According to data collected by the official agency of Tunisia, from 20 February to 24 March a total of 183,480 people have crossed the border between Libya and Tunisia, of whom 160,433 have made it through Ras Jedir.

Of these, 117,393 people have already been repatriated to their countries of origin.

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