Saturday, February 19, 2011

Libya, salt the death toll from clashes the victims were at least 84

TRIPOLI - would be at least 84 victims of the clashes between police and demonstrators who ignited three days from Libya. To provide the figure is the humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch, citing testimony of medical sources and residents. Last night, Amnesty International had spoken instead of 46 dead.

"The Libyan authorities must immediately end attacks against peaceful demonstrators and protect them from anti-government groups," it said in a statement on the humanitarian organization based in New York. Dramatic budget also reported that al-Jazeera broadcaster, that the Libyan security forces have killed at least 70 demonstrators in Benghazi, the second city of the country.

"I saw with my own eyes: at least 70 corpses in the hospital," said a doctor, al-Wuwufaq Zuwaila, adding that security forces prevented ambulances to go to the places of the protests. The satellite TV also said the rise of protest against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Explaining that the government in Tripoli has blocked the signal in the village of al Jazeera, the station also reports that, according to testimony, was also overshadowed the website.

In this case, but this is a targeted measure. Access to the Internet, according to a statement from Arbor Networks, a company specializing in web-based traffic surveillance in the United States, the telecommunications network was in fact completely blocked in Libya during the night. Libya has "abruptly terminated" internet access at 02:15 local time (1.15 in Italy), the company said, adding that internet connections were already very disturbed yesterday.

The silence of the Italian authorities on what is happening in Libya is "terrible and deafening," the complaint Walter Veltroni. "In a few days there were nearly one hundred dead and there was still no official reaction. The great upheaval, in the name of the bread and freedom, is shaking the Mediterranean Africa is something that directly affects Italy" , says the leader of the Democratic Party.

"It 's necessary to stand firm in our country. Any further waiting would be very serious." The tense situation in Algeria, where hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Algiers, defying a ban by the authorities. In the square on May 1, venue of the march of the opposition, the security forces to stop and prevent witnesses from the second place, the police charged the demonstrators.

Any passer-by who stops being beaten by police, reports the independent Algerian daily al-Watan. "The safety device - can be read on the site - this is a massive, much larger last week, and actually almost hermetically closed the square." The march convened by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD) follows a week of another opposition rally in Algeria, repressed by the police with charges and arrests.

The tension rises again in Bahrain. The armored vehicles left the square of the Pearl, in Manama, the scene in recent days of a violent crackdown by police against demonstrators Shiites, but a dozen protesters returned to the scene immediately after the evacuation. The immediate reaction of the police, who used tear gas to disperse the crowd.

The army had descended on the streets of the capital Thursday, hours after the removal of a makeshift camp of protesters in the square. This morning, the king of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, Crown Prince instructed to initiate a national dialogue with "all parties" to resolve the crisis triggered by protests.

The opposition has rejected the offer before asking the government to resign and the military should withdraw from the streets.

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