Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The family of a Libyan rebel known if still alive after the images posted on Youtube

Ahmed Gheriani is lying face down in the middle of a road in eastern Libya and in the hands of troops Muanmar Gaddafi: "Say Qaddafi alive! ... Di Muammar alive!" Says a voice coming from behind camera that records it. He responds: "Allahu Akbar" which means "God is great." In the second 23 of the video, posted on the YouTube website, you hear shots and the camera fails to focus on the Libyan rebel.

Gheriani Ahmed is one of the more than 400 Libyans in the east of the country that have disappeared since the uprising began, according to the Libyan Red Crescent, which keeps a detailed log. The group can not confirm whether there has been arrested or killed, and who have no contact with the Qaddafi government.

"Maybe they will call your family or something, but in general nobody knows," says Dina Jarbou, a volunteer with the Red Crescent. The Council has taken the rebels after images Gheriani was killed by his captors: "We assume he is dead, because Gaddafi's thugs do well," says spokesman Mustafa Gheriani, a distant relative.

"They do not take prisoners." He refuses to hold Gheriani as a symbol of revolution because it fears could lead to other stories of sacrifice. "This is the time where there are many heroes," said Mustafa Gheriani. The video can be seen on YouTube are an example of brutality in the war in Libya and the struggle between pro-Gaddafi forces and rebels, which remains stuck in the east.

But Ahmed Gheriani family and friends in the family home in Al-Marj, north of Benghazi, do not know still do not know if he's dead or taken prisoner by the forces of Gaddafi. "When I saw the tape, I could not move for 24 hours," said his older brother, Abdullah, 40. "I did not eat, not drink, did not sleep", continues the family.

Believe he was killed on March 6, a day after he went to the front without arms, to help evacuate the wounded from the front. They Gheriani described as a young big, bespectacled, 38 years old, "an intelligent, cheerful friend, good-hearted" and had little interest in politics and no experience of war before it began the revolution February 17.

Khaled al-Fazzani, a close friend, says Gheriani cried when she saw the first images of bloodied protesters in mobile phone videos delivered by satellite television, the same clips that mysteriously were a harbinger of his own adventure: "He said 'I have to go. I have to defend people against this oppression,' "recalls Fazzani.

"I told him that there were planes, tanks and rockets. That had nothing and he could not fight them. He just said he had to go. "Friends and family said they hoped to marry this summer, but had not yet found the right girl. Fazzani, his childhood friend, asked him before leaving:" If you do not marry before go to war, what do you do? ".

Gherani replied:" I'm getting married in heaven. "

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