Thursday, May 5, 2011

Displaced challenge artillery fire in Libya

A humanitarian aid ship defied the artillery fire Moammar Gadhafi to evacuate terrified African and Asian immigrants Misrata Libyan port, but had to leave behind hundreds of Libyan desperate to escape the fighting. Aid workers rushed to board migrants, journalists and wounded on the ship to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, at a time when Misrata was bombarded by the forces of Gadhafi.

"The bombing has caused many victims among the Libyans and people from other countries waiting to be evacuated, "said rebel spokesman Gemal Salem. The Red Star One, ship hired by the International Organization for Migration, evacuated 800 people trapped in the civil war that had been waiting for days to escape the worsening humanitarian crisis by the minute.

The ship waiting to load a thousand people. Gadhafi forces also bombed the district of Qasr Ahmad, a residential and industrial Misrata transformed into one of the bloodiest battlefields of the conflict in two months. The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Anders Fogh Rasmussen supported the idea of funding the opposition forces in Libya because that would help protect civilians.

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