Saturday, February 26, 2011

Gaddafi harangue the crowd in the square: "We will kill those who protest"

Continued civil war and continues the isolation of Libya Muammar Gaddafi. The colonel appeared today in the Green Square in Tripoli and harangued a group of his supporters. His words seemed more than the ravings of a madman that the intervention of a head of state. "Who does not love me does not deserve life will be hell," he told the crowd, and added that the deposits of arms are open to "arm the people together and fight, defeat and kill protesters." The Rais has concluded his speech by greeting his fans and inviting them to go dance: "I am among you: dance, sing and be happy." A reply came by return of the Committee on February 17 that started the revolt: "Gaddafi urges people to take arms from the stores because they want it to end in a bloodbath," said a member of the group.

Beyond these words, the colonel is increasingly alone, outside and inside the country. The cities of Cyrenaica, the eastern part of Libya, are entirely in the hands of insurgents. A hospital in Benghazi, Libyan, who declined to reveal his real name, fattoquotidiano. it said that part of the country is completely in the hands of a government of national solidarity consists of progressive forces.

"In forty years - he says - I've never seen so clean and Benghazi in its citizens so cooperative and confident for the future." The circle is gradually tightening around and Gaddafi in Tripoli. Other cities near the capital are in fact to fall into the hands of the people in revolt. Yefren, Zenteno and Jadu, towns in the mountains just 150 kilometers from the headquarters of the colonel are to go to insurgents who continue to repeat: "If it falls it falls Tripoli Gaddafi." The scheme now staggers and maintains its control over Tripoli and a few other areas also in the western part of the country.

The streets around the capital are filled with police and soldiers armed with Kalashnikovs. Above the main road linking the city to mitigate the military airport, in the afternoon that we thought had fallen into the hands of pro-democracy activists. "All the crossings are manned," says Reuters news agency quoted a local source.

"They are asking drivers to open the trunk, and show what to carry in their vehicles - add - and 'very, very difficult to move." "The dictator now controls only his barracks-bunker Babal-Aziz, in which he resides," is what supports the satellite broadcaster al-Jazeera, quoting media sources in the Libyan capital.

What relates the satellite broadcaster, are ongoing contacts between some personality Europe (Cyrenaica) and West (Tripoli) Libya (de facto split in two after the rebels have 'liberated' much of the eastern regions) to agree on the leadership can not materialize if the voices that run about a possible imminent collapse of the Rais.

And the rumors about this possibility increases with the passing of time. On Twitter, there are numerous ads announcing the imminent defeat of the dictator: "Today, Tripoli is Libya and Libya's now free," writes about microblogging the Libyan Youth Movement, which follows from within and outside the country, the developments of the revolt in the meantime The body count continues.

Ibrahim Dabbashi, number two in the United Nations Mission in Libya, said that those killed in the clashes that have inflamed the North African country since 17 February in the thousands. But for the moment it is impossible to make reliable calculations. The source of fattoquotidiano. it says that only in the cities of Cyrenaica citizens died under the blows of repression are over a thousand.

Also continued the parade, the harsh repression of the loyalist forces and mercenaries and the body count. Dozens of people killed today in Tripoli today a rally was immediately suppressed by the police at the end of Friday prayers at the mosque in Algeria Square in downtown Tripoli, a short walk from Green Square.

Shortly after the prayer, about 200 protesters gathered outside the mosque and began shouting slogans against Muslims and Gaddafi. Now the policemen in uniform and plainclothes militiamen guarding the area have spoken and have heard many shots, it is unclear whether in the air or against the demonstrators, and there was a general stampede.

One of the protesters, however, has brought together a group of Italian journalists that he was on the square and said that events like that were planned in all mosques in the Libyan capital. Carry out the procedures for repatriation of foreigners on Libyan territory. The Italian armed forces in addition to ensuring the airlifts have sent some ships to bring home the Italians living in Libya.

In the late afternoon was completed by 245 people on board the ship from the port of San Giorgio measured. The progressive isolation of the colonel goes far beyond the borders of the country. As the international community is discussing what measures or sanctions are to be taken against the Rais (see article), the number of defections among his former allies and associates continues to grow.

A crucial blow came from the Libyan ambassador of the major Western countries that have joined the revolt. In a joint document Hafed Gaddur (ambassador to Italy), Abdurrahman Shalgam (UN), Omar Jelban (in Britain), Salah Zarem (in France), Al-Al Egieli Breno (Spain), Gamal Barq (in Germany ) and their colleagues in Greece and Malta have appealed to the Libyan people "fighting", "our people - says the document - in these moments we are with you, we will not abandon us and will strive to serve you" how " Soldiers loyal to the service of national unity, freedom and security "of Libya.

"We will stay in our place to serve our people in the countries where we are, where we represent the people of Libya. God have mercy on the martyrs of the Libyan people, "concluded the ambassador. Despite the colonel and his family ostinino to remain holed up in Tripoli, many African countries have offered refuge to the Libyan leadership.

Western diplomatic sources said, noting that the idea took shape to process Gaddafi for violations of international law. The countries offering to host Gaddafi do so with the goal of saving lives in the belief that the violence will cease earlier if the Libyan leader will leave the country, but the sources claim, if the western countries should demand the extradition of Gaddafi for trial before the International Criminal Court, the question becomes much more complicated.

And the road linking Tripoli Hague is always shorter.

No comments:

Post a Comment