Saturday, March 5, 2011

Libya: Gaddafi attacks the east, the refugees flocking

The Libyan city of Brega was again shelled by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, reports on Friday morning March 4, the television channel Al Arabiya. The city, the oil terminal located on the Gulf of Sirte, 800 km east of Tripoli, had been the target of bombing raids Wednesday and Thursday. It controls the strategic coastal road that leads to Benghazi, the epicenter of protest in the east.

According to residents of this coastal city, at least five people were taken by the pro-Qadhafi during the offensive backed by aircraft and heavy artillery, which resulted in the deaths of at least twelve people. Opponents, who say they still control the city, have announced at least one hundred prisoners among the fighters loyal to the Libyan leader.

Two sources close to the insurgents and a civilian respondents, however, say by having heard no explosion. A spokesman for the opposition has also mentioned the strengthening of the army towards Ras Lanuf, a hundred miles west of Brega. He said the army is supported by mercenaries from Chad and Niger.

According to the Libyan League for Human Rights, the 6000 crackdown was dead. Listen! Ensuring that "there will be no impunity in Libya," he listed several "incidents" during which "peaceful demonstrators were attacked by security forces" in Benghazi on February 15 at Aal -Bayda, Derna and Zentena February 16 and in Tripoli on February 20.

Abroad, the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa said that Arab countries "studying" the offer. Paris and London have rejected. Paris and London have again supported the establishment of a no-fly zone, "where the threat of use of force against the Libyan people that Qaddafi waved to materialize in the coming days," said the Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe.

Humanitarian organizations and the international community engaged in a race against time to evacuate thousands of people into Egypt. An airlift was set up Thursday, and the European Union has pledged 30 million euros. Le Monde. en

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