Tuesday, April 19, 2011

More than 100 dead in 48 hours in western Libya

.- More than 100 people died in 48 hours and Yefren Nalut, two cities south of Tripoli attacked by forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi, as inhabitants of this region where thousands of Libyans and fled for refuge in Tunisia. A thousand people have died in six weeks in Misrata (east of Tripoli), besieged by the troops of Gadhafi, medical sources said on Monday rebel siege of the city where London thought evacuate by sea to 5 000 foreign workers.

In the southwest of Tripoli, the loyal forces on Monday attacked the Al Jabal Al Gharbi, largely controlled by the rebels, residents said the area. "The battalions of Gadhafi did not stop attacks in the region, especially in Yefren and Nalut, Grad rocket There were 110 deaths between rebels and civilians in those two cities," said an inhabitant of Yefren who declined to reveal his identity.

A resident of Nalut, a town near the border with Tunisia, said "Gadhafi forces are perpetrating a slaughter" in the mountain region, leaving "at least 100 killed in two days." Another witness Ghazaya small town northwest of Nalut, explained that there are fighting with guns instead of rifles and rockets from Sunday night.

According to him, "the rebels move through various parts around Ghazaya surrounding Gadhafi forces and preventing them from leaving the city." On Saturday, about 3 thousand Libyans had fled west to the mountains of Tunisia, said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In Misrata, a coastal city 200 km east of Tripoli, the toll increases and the humanitarian situation is worrying.

"The situation in Misrata seriously deteriorated in recent days. Five thousand poor foreign workers are locked in a spring. There explosion about 300 yards from where they are," he told the BBC the British Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell. The operation, led by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is to evacuate the migrant workers, many of them Egyptians, to Egypt, he said.

IOM succor thousand migrants on Monday, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) evacuated to other 618, which was all locked in Misrata where the sea is the only way out. Jeremy Haslam, head of the IOM mission in the country, said fears of a mass exodus movement of 400 000 inhabitants Libyan city, a figure well above the logistical capacity of the device mounted by IOM, Qatar and Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

In six weeks, a thousand people died in Misrata and 3,000 were wounded, medics said. "80% of the dead are civilians," said hospital administrator Misrata, Dr. Khaled Abu Falgha. This balance could not be confirmed from other sources. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), citing medical sources in Misrata, until April 15, 267 bodies were taken to morgues in the city, but "the death toll is higher because some families took the bodies of their relatives to the morgues.

" The hospital saw an increase in the number of civilians injured by high velocity bullets fired by snipers who cause injuries to the often irreversible consequences. The doctor said that since last week has been found in patients with severe wounds caused by cluster bombs, weapons that are banned, but Gaddafi's forces are using since Thursday, according to the defense of human rights, Human Rights Watch (HRW).

For its part, the Libyan government gave its agreement for the presence of international humanitarian staff in Tripoli, according to the UN. On Monday, the planes of the countries involved in military intervention under a UN mandate led by the Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) since 31 March, aimed at targets in the city of Al Aziziya, south of Tripoli, according to the Libyan news agency Jana, without giving further details.

In its 145 outlets on Sunday, NATO said that destroyed, among other goals, seven Tripoli munitions bunkers, four air defense radar near Misrata and four launchers near Zenten (west). The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon called on Monday to a real ceasefire in Libya.

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