Sunday, February 20, 2011

Protests in Libya: weapons againstpeople

The brutal actions of the Libyan regime against demonstrators appalled human rights activists, doctors speak of 200 dead. But there is little independent information. Now, to provide a preliminary soldiers against leader Muammar al-Gaddafi has made. The system is crumbling? Tripoli - It is a test of strength for Muammar al-Gaddafi, a power play of vital importance.

After more than four decades in office, the despot sees the first time confronted with an opposition motion calling insurgents openly to overthrow the dictator. With great brutality, Gaddafi has taken in recent days, his security forces against protesters in position. He sent an elite unit of the military, led by his son, Khamis, to Benghazi.


Helicopters circled over the second-largest city in the country, out of them soldiers fired on demonstrators repeatedly. From the ground by passing cars, from which security forces fired on people. Special operations forces, foreign mercenaries and thugs would have pursued the protesters with knives, assault rifles and large caliber weapons.

"I saw with my own eyes, like a tank is fed to a car in which sat two people. He has two crushed easily, yet they have no one did anything," described the cleric Abellah al-Warfali his impressions of Benghazi. A Benghazi residents told the BBC the troops had attacked a funeral procession with mortars and machine guns.

There had been a "massacre" of civilians, hospitals were already run out of blood donations, the Arabic television station al-Jazeera reported, citing witnesses. According to doctors at least 15 people were killed. Security forces refuse to fire on demonstrators, according to the opposition have been killed in the clashes at least 200 people.

Exact numbers are not there. Gaddafi's regime has hats in addition to Internet and mobile networks, it hardly get valid information from the country. "We are very concerned that changes occurring with respect to human rights situation a disaster," said Tom Porteous of Human Rights Watch (HRW).

But after days of protests, there are increasing indications that Gadaffis power falters: Security forces should have connected to the insurgents, according the newspaper report "Libya al-Youm and al-Jazeera. Accordingly, security forces have refused to fire on demonstrators. Some cities in the east of the country should be or "liberated" in part according to the opposition.

Supports the demonstrators are reported to be by police and security forces belonging to the tribes in the country - and do not want to act against their countrymen. Earlier this week, had joined, according to CNN one of the leading military in Benghazi, Mohammed al-Majbari, the opposition.

The regime apparently tried to regain power by supposedly reliable staff overseas hires. According to al-Gaddafi Majbari is an African mercenaries "were causing a massacre." "They have no ties to the tribes and therefore will not be deterred have to intervene." Why they were made of Gaddafi's view better suited to act against the opposition, al-Majbari told CNN.

According to al-Jazeera Ex-military help now also help disperse the soldiers and especially hired thugs. In the city of El Baida ostlibyschen Islamists took several people hostage. A "group of Islamist extremists" have taken "in the last days" security forces and citizens as hostages, a senior Libyan official said on Sunday.

The kidnappers demanded "the lifting of the siege by security forces," the official said. On Saturday evening it had already given talks Libyan foreign leaders speak of conspiracy Libya itself is a foreign conspiracy to create riots blamed. The state news agency Jana spread on Saturday evening, security forces have arrested members of a group of conspirators, including Palestinians, Tunisians and Sudanese.

It is possible that the Israeli intelligence was responsible for these operations, it said in the reports. Initially, the Libyan state media had ignored the uprising against leader Gaddafi. Then the saboteurs of speech, public buildings were destroyed. Now, these conspiracy theories are widespread.

the television pictures from the embattled cities of it. The opposition documented their insurgency in shaky amateur videos. Apparently to prevent the government opponents dating to more protests, the Internet was just before midnight on Saturday once again turned off, as the U.S. IT security company Arbor Networks said.

Already early on Saturday morning, the Internet service was interrupted, several hours later, he worked temporarily restricted and again until he was interrupted again.

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