Thursday, February 17, 2011

Protests in Libya

Benghazi - The protest movement against authoritarian regimes in the Arab world has recognized Libya on Wednesday. Several hundred protesters were in the second-largest city, Benghazi, to the streets to demand the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi. A withdrawal of revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi was not required, the news agency reported, citing witnesses.


The demonstrators shouted slogans like, therefore "The people will stop corruption" and "Benghazi wake up, this is the day on which you've been waiting for." According to the BBC about 2,000 people demonstrated against the arrest of an anti-government lawyer. The lawyer had been released later, but the protests have been going at first.

According to the BBC the protesters threw stones at police, security forces used water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets. 14 people were injured. Attributes have also been published amateur video to see where in the dark, hundreds of men and women who call: "The people want the overthrow of the regime and" out Gaddafi, out, "said Off-government groups to the demonstrators!.

've traded are "15 young people." gathered after the dissolution of the demonstration in Benghazi, Tripoli and other cities, hundreds Gaddafi. The Libyan was televised live in the morning, as they waved flags and pictures of Gaddafi and praised the revolutionary leader. Following the example of other Arab states on Thursday in Libya a "day of anger" is planned, is called to on the social network Facebook.

The group was founded there with the title "revolt of February 17, 2011" joined up last week around 9,600 people. Gaddafi had a coup in 1969 to power. First, he distinguished himself as an enemy of the West, following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, he served in the Western capitals as a partner.

Early January, the country experienced unrest, disgruntled citizens protesting against the shortage of housing. The high unemployment and rising food prices aroused popular anger. Gaddafi fought fear riots so far for an effective and his repressive apparatus, the brutality the people. On the other hand he has the rich oil and natural gas reserves sufficient funds for gifts to the people.

And so, in recent weeks abolished taxes and tariffs on food. Mass movements have since the beginning of the regime in Tunisia and Egypt fell. were demonstrations against governments, it also in Yemen, Jordan and Bahrain. In the Gulf state on Wednesday, several thousand protesters sat on the third day in a row, their protests against the government.

Many of them spent the night in tents on the central square of the capital Manama, which they have occupied since Tuesday. Some protesters joined a funeral service on Wednesday morning for a day before in clashes with police killed protesters. Also on Monday is already one demonstrator was killed.

At least 25 people were injured in the use of tear gas and rubber bullets. The demonstrators were calling the opposition to a "day of anger" and then on Monday. Youth groups and human rights activists in the Kingdom had the internet on the anniversary of the Constitution of 2002 called for a mass demonstration after the example of the mass protests in Egypt.

They stressed that the aim of the protests was not the overthrow of the ruling regime, but merely a democratic opening the political system. The Shiite majority in Bahrain accuses the Sunni ruling class discrimination. The United States expressed its concern about the violence during the protests in Bahrain.

The United States is therefore "very concerned," said State Department spokesman in Washington, PJ Crowley, on Tuesday. He called "on all sides to show restraint and to refrain from violence." Crowley added that the U.S. had received confirmation that two demonstrators were killed. He called on the government of the Gulf State to investigate as promised by it and the cases "against any unjustified use of force by the Bahraini security forces" to act.

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