Thursday, February 17, 2011

Libya, 11 protesters dead and now is the 'day of anger'. Victims in Bahrain

Continuing tensions in the Arab world, in the wake of the riots in Egypt and Tunisia have thrown down the existing schemes. Eleven protesters were killed yesterday in Libya, where today's opponents of Gaddafi's regime organized the 'day of anger'. Protests in Bahrain, where the number of victims of the clashes has risen to six.

LIBYA - E 'of the budget at least 11 dead in clashes that were reported yesterday in Libya between anti-Gaddafi demonstrators and police forces, according to state sites and non-governmental organizations Libyan opposition abroad. Nine would be the victims of the clashes in the eastern city of Al-Baida and two in Benghazi.

One hundred are injured, hit by tear gas and rubber bullets fired by police. Meanwhile, today will be held in the country 'Day of Anger' with the aim to overthrow the leader, Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for 40 years. A group of young dissidents, challenging the government in Tripoli, organized through social networks, the day of protest on the anniversary of the massacre in Benghazi in 2006, when an angry mob stormed the Italian consulate in the issue of the cartoons against the Prophet .

Opposition rallies should be held throughout the country in the wake of popular uprisings that have already caused a change at the top of the governments of Egypt and Tunisia. One of the centers of the protest will be to Benghazi, a city of the east, the scene of a massacre in 1996 in Abu Selim prison, when they were massacred hundreds of opponents.

Yesterday in the city have been recorded violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces, which some activists have caused two deaths and 38 wounded. Police to disperse the mob resorted to tear gas and then charged the demonstrators. A Baida, east of Benghazi, the police executed several arrests among young people considered the organizers of the protest.

Some sites of Libyan opposition and NGOs have reported that in clashes between police and protesters were killed nine people. The risk of a new bloodbath is high, as also remarked on the Libyan opposition leader in exile, the colonel hafta Khalifa, who audiomessaggio Internet has invited the Libyan police officers not to repress the demonstrations.

The situation is very fluid, so that Gadhafi, according to press rumors, now intends to take to the streets in solidarity with the Arab peoples. The government meanwhile seems to follow a dual strategy in dealing with the protests. On the one hand eased the pressure on radical Islamic movements, having repented for the release of 110 members of the Group for the fight Islamic Jihad, the other has intensified the repression of opposition political movement.

In the last hours can be reported arrests and disappearances, such as those of Mohammad and Jalal al-Kafawi Suhaim, one of the organizers of the 'day of anger' on the web. BAHRAIN - Meanwhile in Bahrain has risen to four the number of protesters killed in the capital Manama later launched pre-dawn assault by security forces against a makeshift camp, where they were placed by the demonstrators who protested Tuesday against the absolute monarchy of the tiny emirate.

Two protesters were killed instantly. The third died shortly after due to severe injuries from gunshot wounds to the chest described as Shiite opposition sources have reported. There would then be a fourth victim, reported to be a source of opposition, but there are no further details. The wounded established because of the blitz amounted to fifty.

In less than three days, the victims of repression were a total of six. Bahrain at the time the protesters did not expressly ask that King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to abandon the leadership of the country, but the ongoing protest is unprecedented and raises serious pressures for changes in the country.

Among the main demands of protesters, written on a poster displayed in the main square of the capital, there is the release of all political detainees, greater supply of jobs and housing, a government that is elected and the replacement of Prime Minister Sheik Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa.

In addition to expressing his condolences on TV for the victims of the clashes, the king also promised various reforms, including riuncia by the state control over the media and the Internet.

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