The perfect picture of what's going on in Libya at this time is the government building set on fire by protesters in Tripoli. Looted and burned other government buildings in Tripoli. The mob raided the headquarters of the national public television. And this morning, several police stations in the city was stormed and burnt.
The police and the Libyan security are completely absent in the center of the city, even the police have given to looting of offices and banks. The Arabic television Al Jazeera says at least 61 deaths in the capital. Meanwhile, the continuing escalation of blood in the North African country, but tension remains high throughout the Arab world and also in Iran.
Yesterday, the protest broke out in Morocco, where tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Rabat ee in other cities to demand constitutional reforms. But after the riots in Tunisia and Egypt, the eyes of the international community are focused on the situation in Libya. As far as the agencies report, the airport in Benghazi, the second largest city, is in the hands of demonstrators, so that a Turkish Airlines plane, arrived in Libya to repatriate Turkish citizens have been denied permission to land.
The European Union meanwhile to prepare an evacuation of EU citizens from Libya, in particular from Cyrenaica and other eastern areas. The Spanish Foreign Minister, Trinidad Jimenez, said from Brussels: "We are extremely concerned and we are coordinating the possible evacuation of EU citizens from Libya, especially from Benghazi," the fellow for European Affairs, Frenchman Laurent Wauquiez, was more cautious: "For the moment there are no direct threats that require the immediate return - he said - of about 750 fellow residents in the North African country." Meanwhile there are the victims of yesterday.
That Bloody Sunday which marked the sixth day of protests and further escalation of the conflict taking place. According to the humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch, the beginning of the protests, on 17 February, the death toll at 233. Only 60 in Benghazi. And that is where there have been more serious incidents.
Although some members of police forces have joined the demonstrators, security forces opened fire on the crowd getting hit in a funeral procession. The brigade responsible for security in the city, Abu Omar al-Fadil, used against the demonstrators RPG rockets and anti-tank weapons. "Most of those killed in recent days in Benghazi were injured by gunshot to the heart or stomach," said the physician al-Jala Hospital Benghazi, Mohammed Mahmoud, in the course of a connection telephone with the Arabic television al-Jazeera.
Meanwhile, yellow is the possible escape from the country of Colonel Gaddafi. According to opposition groups, the Rais is still in the country and for the television of Qatar would have fled to Venezuela. News from the second denial Saif Al Islam that says "Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli is leading the fight and win." The son of Rais evokes scenes from the civil war and the return of the colonial power.
"Libya is at a crossroads - Saif says - If you do not, today we come to an agreement on reforms, do not cry only 84 deaths, but thousands across Libya and rivers of blood". The North African country are focused the eyes of the international community. France, after the Great Britain, the British oil company British Petroleum has today ordered the evacuation of all employees present in Libya, as well as Germany, have strongly condemned the use of violence, while Italy, after Berlusconi beat the unfortunate ("I do not want to disturb Gaddafi"), has not yet taken an official position.
The Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, was limited to expressing concern about the crisis in North Africa. Italy "will sign any declaration that promotes stability, security and prosperity in the Mediterranean," he said, confirming that the fears are related, as already expressed by Roberto Maroni, the "impact on the migration situation in the south of the Mediterranean" .
In line with the views expressed by the major European registries, including the representative of European foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, who said she was "really very worried about what is happening in Libya. It 's very important to stop the violence. " Immigration on the alert, Ashton has claimed that "at the end, the European Union is doing the right things", stressing that the Council would be "very, very clear about his desire for an end to violence.
It 'important that the voices of the people are heard - he added - and that is what we ask for. " But the crisis looks set to escalate. The EU said the real "threat" coming from Tripoli that he summoned the Hungarian ambassador, the EU president, to report that the country is no longer willing to cooperate on immigration if Europe continue to support the demonstrators.
Similar threats, he always told the ambassador, would come to other EU representatives in Libya. 
The police and the Libyan security are completely absent in the center of the city, even the police have given to looting of offices and banks. The Arabic television Al Jazeera says at least 61 deaths in the capital. Meanwhile, the continuing escalation of blood in the North African country, but tension remains high throughout the Arab world and also in Iran.
Yesterday, the protest broke out in Morocco, where tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Rabat ee in other cities to demand constitutional reforms. But after the riots in Tunisia and Egypt, the eyes of the international community are focused on the situation in Libya. As far as the agencies report, the airport in Benghazi, the second largest city, is in the hands of demonstrators, so that a Turkish Airlines plane, arrived in Libya to repatriate Turkish citizens have been denied permission to land.
The European Union meanwhile to prepare an evacuation of EU citizens from Libya, in particular from Cyrenaica and other eastern areas. The Spanish Foreign Minister, Trinidad Jimenez, said from Brussels: "We are extremely concerned and we are coordinating the possible evacuation of EU citizens from Libya, especially from Benghazi," the fellow for European Affairs, Frenchman Laurent Wauquiez, was more cautious: "For the moment there are no direct threats that require the immediate return - he said - of about 750 fellow residents in the North African country." Meanwhile there are the victims of yesterday.
That Bloody Sunday which marked the sixth day of protests and further escalation of the conflict taking place. According to the humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch, the beginning of the protests, on 17 February, the death toll at 233. Only 60 in Benghazi. And that is where there have been more serious incidents.
Although some members of police forces have joined the demonstrators, security forces opened fire on the crowd getting hit in a funeral procession. The brigade responsible for security in the city, Abu Omar al-Fadil, used against the demonstrators RPG rockets and anti-tank weapons. "Most of those killed in recent days in Benghazi were injured by gunshot to the heart or stomach," said the physician al-Jala Hospital Benghazi, Mohammed Mahmoud, in the course of a connection telephone with the Arabic television al-Jazeera.
Meanwhile, yellow is the possible escape from the country of Colonel Gaddafi. According to opposition groups, the Rais is still in the country and for the television of Qatar would have fled to Venezuela. News from the second denial Saif Al Islam that says "Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli is leading the fight and win." The son of Rais evokes scenes from the civil war and the return of the colonial power.
"Libya is at a crossroads - Saif says - If you do not, today we come to an agreement on reforms, do not cry only 84 deaths, but thousands across Libya and rivers of blood". The North African country are focused the eyes of the international community. France, after the Great Britain, the British oil company British Petroleum has today ordered the evacuation of all employees present in Libya, as well as Germany, have strongly condemned the use of violence, while Italy, after Berlusconi beat the unfortunate ("I do not want to disturb Gaddafi"), has not yet taken an official position.
The Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, was limited to expressing concern about the crisis in North Africa. Italy "will sign any declaration that promotes stability, security and prosperity in the Mediterranean," he said, confirming that the fears are related, as already expressed by Roberto Maroni, the "impact on the migration situation in the south of the Mediterranean" .
In line with the views expressed by the major European registries, including the representative of European foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, who said she was "really very worried about what is happening in Libya. It 's very important to stop the violence. " Immigration on the alert, Ashton has claimed that "at the end, the European Union is doing the right things", stressing that the Council would be "very, very clear about his desire for an end to violence.
It 'important that the voices of the people are heard - he added - and that is what we ask for. " But the crisis looks set to escalate. The EU said the real "threat" coming from Tripoli that he summoned the Hungarian ambassador, the EU president, to report that the country is no longer willing to cooperate on immigration if Europe continue to support the demonstrators.
Similar threats, he always told the ambassador, would come to other EU representatives in Libya.
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