Sunday, February 20, 2011

Crisis in Libya, Qaddafi uses mercenaries Italy and now fears a flood of migrants

Mercenaries paid up to 30 thousand dollars, snipers on rooftops and then gunfire, blood, dead. More than a hundred victims. This is how Colonel Gaddafi exercises its power. Result: the revolt of the people drowning in the blood. All in the silence of the Italian government. "I do not want to disturb him," said Silvio Berlusconi yesterday.

Speaker, however, is also the Minister of Interior, which warns of exodus. The concern of the Interior Ministry, gathered today in Corriere della Sera, is this fact: if the government in Tripoli is unable to contain the protest involving hundreds of thousands of new landings. Roberto Maroni from hours live in fear that Gaddafi would remove controls at ports and along coastlines.

Areas where for months they gather thousands of refugees from across Africa. This is why the minister is in constant touch with our ambassador in Benghazi. The rest is also growing concern for Italians living in Libya. One front on which is working Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. And just today on the website of the Foreign Ministry appeared a statement against travel to Libya.

At the risk Italian interests in Libya. From that Eni, reports Corriere della Sera, in an official statement made it known as "the moment there is not any kind of problem and the production continues, but we constantly monitor the situation and follow closely the developments." The real concern remain landings.

Because those Tunisians registered in recent days in Lampedusa could be just the tip of the ICE berg. In North Africa the situation falls hour after hour. But it is all over the Arab world that now is a powder keg. A situation which weighs on the latest report del'Unità crisis. The document, arrived yesterday on the table, the interior ministry, while stressing in Tripoli as the climate is currently still "quiet", specifies the "problematic situation of Cyrenaica" and shows how "the prospect that worried." Then "the constant contact with the embassy for the evaluation of different possible scenarios for the Italian community, having already examined specific initiatives of direct protection for those who are in the area of Benghazi.

So if the friendship treaty between Libya and Italy, signed just in Benghazi, blows may trigger an emergency. With this, our government, in exchange for economic and political concessions to the regime of Gaddafi, has obtained commitments to control the Libyan coast to prevent the departure of boats from the area north of the country.

Now if all this were to end due to a spillover of the conflict, as happened in Egypt, the exodus would be almost certain. And the numbers in the hands of Maroni, speak for themselves: "After the agreement with Libya on the island of Lampedusa landings declined by 98 percent, rising from 37,000 in 2009 to 404 in 2010.

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