Sunday, February 20, 2011

NGO complaint more than 100 deaths in Libya, opposition becomes the center of Bahrain

.- More than a hundred people were killed in Libya at the beginning of an insurrectionary movement dyes, while Bahrain's opposition turned to the center of Manama, and the demonstrations came to Morocco, where wildfire stretching across northern Africa and Middle East. In Libya, ruled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for 42 years, the violent repression has caused at least 104 since the start of the protests on Tuesday, according to the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW).

However, an AFP count established Libyan sources speak of at least 77 dead. The protests appeared to be transformed gradually into insurrection in the east, especially in the city of Benghazi, a bastion of opposition to a few thousand miles east of Tripoli, where at least 12 people were killed Saturday in the repression by the army, a group of protesters who tried to take down a military assault, the newspaper close to the reformist Quryna Seif el-Islam, son of Muammar Gaddafi.

"It's an incomplete picture of the situation and that communications with Libya are very difficult. We have a great concern (...) that is causing a humanitarian catastrophe, "said the director of HRW's office in London, Tom Porteous, by telephone. The military fired on demonstrators in Benghazi mortar shells, according to people quoted by the BBC.

According to the Qatari television network Al-Jazeera, the hospitals had no blood to heal the wounded. Austria has gone a military plane to Malta for a possible evacuation of citizens in this country and Europe from Libya, said the Defense Ministry on Sunday. On the outskirts of Tripoli were also reported "incidents" on Saturday night, especially in Fashlum and Tajura, where shots were heard, according to witnesses cited by opponents abroad.

On the other hand, a senior Libyan official told AFP that a "group of Islamist extremists" held hostage to law enforcement officers and civilians in Al Baida, east of Libya, which began "during the fighting of recent days." The group "calls for the lifting of the siege by the forces of order as a condition not to execute the hostages," he said.

The authorities also announced they had arrested "several cities" dozens of Arabs belonging to a "network" whose mission is to destabilize the country, reported the official news agency Jana sucks. In the Gulf, the tiny kingdom of Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Fleet V, protesters retook the Pearl Plaza to demand a change of regime, dominated by the Sunni monarchy, although the majority of the population source is Shia.

Hundreds of demonstrators spent the night without molestation, after the army left the square the night before. Demonstrators hoped reinforcements workers began a strike on Sunday, including teachers. Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa ordered the police to stay out of the manifetaciones.

Your offer of dialogue has been received with great caution by the opposition demanding to sit and talk to the resignation of the government. Demonstrations also spread to Morocco. In Casablanca and Rabat, the capital, hundreds of people gathered to demand political reforms and a limitation on the powers of the King, "Freedom, dignity, justice," the demonstrators demanded in Casablanca, while leftist groups claiming "less power to the monarchy.

" Sunday's demonstrations are the first movement amplitude to claim political reforms in Morocco after the rebellion that began in Tunisia and then went to Egypt, which ended with the resignation of their presidents. In Djibouti, three major opposition figures were arrested Saturday, a day after an unprecedented demonstration against President Ismael Omar Guelleh degenerated into violent clashes, in which there were officially two dead, a policeman and a demonstrator.

In Yemen, where clashes between opponents and supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power for 32 years and a U.S. ally in the fight against Al Qaida, became on Saturday in a battle in the capital, Sana Hassan Baum, principal opposition figure Southerner, was arrested Sunday in Aden, where he arrived to participate in the demonstrations.

Twelve people have been killed in Yemen, of which 10 in Aden since the beginning of the week.

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