Muammar Gaddafi's regime has intensified its air raids on Tuesday and ground assault into the city deZawiya-the rebel-held enclave close to the Libyan capital. Using heavy artillery and, according to witnesses, "at least 50 tanks," the colonel loyal to attempt to crush resistance in the city and stop the rebels, stuck in the port city of Ras Lanuf since Sunday.
The ultimate fate remains uncertain Zawiya. Witnesses quoted by the Associated Press say the city has fallen and maintained that the brutal crackdown of the army and air force loyal to the dictator have come to break the last lines of defense of the rebels late in the afternoon. In Tripoli, the government already gives the battle won, and ensures that the resistance is only a few dozen people.
However, Alex Crawford of 'SkyNews', apparently the only medium that has made it into the city, reports that the city still resisting, but the rebels are under siege in the middle of town. Witnesses report that a massacre occurred in the city, and that Gaddafi's troops have fired indiscriminately on civilians, killing a considerable number of women and children.
Sources of health services in the city say forces loyal to Qadhafi operating under orders of 'shoot to kill. " "The city is in ruins. Some buildings are completely destroyed and fire at anyone who hits the streets. There are many injured in hospitals and are running out of medicines, "said an inhabitant of Zawiya who fled the town." Gaddafi knows that you can only win when used in aviation.
Without lose his seat in less than a week, "explained Mohamed Ras Lanuf Khabir, one of the volunteers who monitor access to this strategic population now serves as the front line. The repeated clashes threaten to establish a de facto division the country from the west, where the pro-Gaddafi majority and the east, dominated by the rebels.
In fact, Ras Lanuf was always the political dividing line of both territories. 
The ultimate fate remains uncertain Zawiya. Witnesses quoted by the Associated Press say the city has fallen and maintained that the brutal crackdown of the army and air force loyal to the dictator have come to break the last lines of defense of the rebels late in the afternoon. In Tripoli, the government already gives the battle won, and ensures that the resistance is only a few dozen people.
However, Alex Crawford of 'SkyNews', apparently the only medium that has made it into the city, reports that the city still resisting, but the rebels are under siege in the middle of town. Witnesses report that a massacre occurred in the city, and that Gaddafi's troops have fired indiscriminately on civilians, killing a considerable number of women and children.
Sources of health services in the city say forces loyal to Qadhafi operating under orders of 'shoot to kill. " "The city is in ruins. Some buildings are completely destroyed and fire at anyone who hits the streets. There are many injured in hospitals and are running out of medicines, "said an inhabitant of Zawiya who fled the town." Gaddafi knows that you can only win when used in aviation.
Without lose his seat in less than a week, "explained Mohamed Ras Lanuf Khabir, one of the volunteers who monitor access to this strategic population now serves as the front line. The repeated clashes threaten to establish a de facto division the country from the west, where the pro-Gaddafi majority and the east, dominated by the rebels.
In fact, Ras Lanuf was always the political dividing line of both territories.
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