Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Gaddafi: "I'm not going to go with this situation; die as a martyr"

"I'm not going to go with this. I will die as a martyr." Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has settled well in a televised speech in which he has used an aggressive tone and challenging, any speculation about his departure, wrapped in a wave of protests. In a similar line to that taken by his son last Sunday, Gadhafi has charged against the international community and foreign broadcasters, in his opinion, distort reality and "work for the devil." "This is our country and the country of our forefathers.

We will not let them destroy it," he added. Gaddafi had made no official statement from the beginning of the protests a week ago, apart from his eccentric and brief appearance last night in which he denied his alleged flight to Venezuela. In his speech today from the ruins of the palace destroyed by U.S.

bombing in 1986, the Libyan leader has distinguished the situation in his country with the riots in Tunisia and Egypt, which forced a change of regime. "The young protesters are not guilty," said Gaddafi, and his attitude is "normal" after seeing what happened in other countries, but has qualified to enter there are people who are demonstrating "bad" distributing "money and drugs to youth.

"I am president, I am the leader of the revolution," continued Gadhafi, to emphasize their unwillingness to follow the footsteps of Ben Ali and Mubarak. The speech comes after a second day in a row that the scheme has been used to fund, with fighter jets and helicopters to suppress the demonstrators.

According to data released today by Human Rights Watch, since last Sunday 62 people have died in the Libyan capital. "Those who take up arms against the country shall be sentenced to death," he challenged Gadhafi, who has refused so far has used violence, despite the air operation began yesterday.

Has called on its supporters to defend his regime and fight "the rats that spread the unrest." The fight will take place from street to street until the Libyan land is liberated, "has had an impact. Gaddafi explained that ports and airports are blocked and life is paralyzed: "No fuel, people are afraid." And he has blamed for this situation to the U.S..

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