Friday, February 18, 2011

Libya, at least 24 protesters dead in the funeral Thousands of people in Bahrain

TRIPOLI - Do not stop the protests in several countries of North Africa and the Middle East. Still fighting in the night in Libya, where the death toll rises to 24 in Bahrain and thousands of people attended the funerals of two people killed during an assault by security forces. And while in Egypt today a million people take to the road to "victory march", in Yemen the anti-government demonstrations have resulted in two victims.

Libya, fights in the night. Would be at least 24 protesters were killed and dozens injured by the Libyan security forces, intervened to disperse the protest "peaceful" during Tuesday against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The complaint part by Human Rights Watch, citing witnesses. The soldiers, meanwhile, guard Benghazi, Libya's second city, after a night of clashes between antigovernment protesters and police.

"This morning is calm in the city, but the night was really tough, a lot of people were in the streets," says a resident. Today I planned the funeral of the victims in Benghazi as Al Beida, a town in the east site of bloody clashes in the last two days, and tension remains high. The Libyan revolutionary committees, a pillar of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, announced today an answer "and violent lightning" against "adventurers" that show, and argue that any attempt to "overcome the limits" will be a "suicide." Still live in Bahrain.

Meanwhile thousands of people attended today's funeral of two people killed yesterday nell'assalto launched by security forces against protesters camped in the square of the pearl in the center of Manama. The raid had three deaths and nearly 200 injured according to the authorities, while according to the opposition were four deaths.

The procession followed the two coffins, wrapped in the flag, Direct Sitra, a Shiite village, repeating patriotic slogans: "neither Shia nor Sunni. National Unity" or "Sunni and Shiite are brothers." According to witnesses, including some repeated "The people want the fall of the regime." Eplosione After the demonstrations, according to The New York Times, citing a company for web traffic analysis, the government has imposed severe restrictions in access to the Internet in the country.

According to data gathered by Arbor Networks, the Internet traffic in Bahrain has shown a decline between 10 and 20%, attributable to the experts of the U.S. to block sites. Among the web addresses would also blocked YouTube. Small archipelago in the Gulf, Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni dynasty, although the majority of the population is Shiite.

Egypt Today 'victory march. "A week after the fall of the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the leader of popular revolt against the Egyptian president urged the people to celebrate the event with a massive march through the streets of the capital. According to the organizers - writes the BBC online today - it should take to the streets at least a million people "to protect the revolution and its demands," as we read a message from Twitter.

The march will begin immediately after Friday prayers. Even supporters of ' former president had planned a counter-march in the same hours for "apologize" with Mubarak at the way in which it was expelled, and to recognize achievements in 30 years in power. Supporters of the deposed president will be dressed in black, those participating the march of victory, instead indosserannno white clothes.

An Islamic website has written in Tahrir Square is also the Imam Yousef al Qaradawi, known for his sermons weekly on Al Jazeera satellite television. arrived in Cairo yesterday afternoon, Qaradawi could give a speech from the square on the important role of the Egyptian people in building a free and democratic society.

There are also events in the city of Alexandria. Yesterday, the prosecutor ordered the arrest in Cairo as a precaution of three former ministers, including the much-feared former Minister of Foreign Affairs Habib el Adly, and steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz, a staunch ally of Mubarak. Stronger the pressure to launch an investigation into the assets of the Mubarak family, estimated according to sources, between 1 and 70 billion dollars.

Yemen, the death toll is worsening. Has increased the budget of yesterday's clashes between security forces and anti-government demonstrators in Aden, South Yemen. According to hospital sources, the number of confirmed deaths rose to three in fact, while the wounded amounted to nineteen, two of them in serious condition and had to submit to surgery.

Yesterday, in the district of al-Mansoura port city, the police had opened fire on a group of protesters who called for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power for 32 years.

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