Muammar Gaddafi a very threatening. While the demonstrations, violently repressed by the regime, still in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi spoke for the first time live on state television Tuesday, February 22. He threatened the protesters armed with the death penalty and called on his supporters to take to the streets.
In his speech, the Libyan leader has rejected outright calls for his departure from power, claiming: "Muammar Gaddafi has no official position he resigned. Muammar Gaddafi is the leader of the revolution, synonymous sacrifices until the end of days. " He spoke at length about the situation in Benghazi, the epicenter of the revolt, returning repeatedly, pitting residents of this city to the rest of the Libyans, in a tone very close to a call for civil war.
"We could have used tanks and aircraft. We will start work tonight," he said, not that we know what he meant. Evidence has been reported in several cities Libyan bombing earlier in the week. Undaunted, Muammar Gaddafi has promised to quell the revolt even if it requires "purge Libya house by house".
The leader, in power since 1969, called the army and police, but his supporters to take the situation in hand to "restore order". He hammered the need to turn to the popular committees, established during his rise to power. According to a chart presented Tuesday evening by those in power, the violence has been dead three hundred - two hundred and forty to two civilians and fifty-eight soldiers - in the country.
Nearly half the victims have been identified in Benghazi outbreak of the insurgency. These are the first official figures on the victims of the uprising which began a week ago. According to Human Rights Watch, the repression was at least seventy-two dead in the capital Tripoli since Sunday, adding to a balance of two hundred and thirty to three deaths given by the organization Monday morning.
Later in the evening on Tuesday, the chairman of the Libyan Parliament assured during a press conference that calm had been "restored to most major cities" of the country where "security forces and army (had ) resumed their positions. " >> See: Gaddafi: "I will fight until the last drop of my blood" Along the coast road to Tobruk, she noted the destruction of all symbols of the regime, whose monuments recalling the Green Book "guide" of the revolution and the replacement of the green flag Jamahiriyya ("state of the masses") by the tricolor banner of Libyan independence in 1951.
Reportedly it has collected on site, the city has raised five days ago. A town square has been renamed the name of a victim of the repressive regime in the 1980s. Part of the army allegedly colluded with the opposition. By late afternoon, information from the rebels who took control of the city of Benghazi, more than three hundred kilometers west of Tobruk, were reported to fire heavy weapons from the forces still loyal to Colonel Qaddafi.
The Arab League for its part announced that Libya's participation in meetings of the pan-Arab organization was suspended. At their meeting in Cairo, representatives of twenty-two Arab countries have also indicated they would recommend to the ministerial meeting of the League, March 3, to consider the suspension of Libya "as a member" of this proceeding.
>> Read: The Security Council UN calls for "the immediate cessation" of violence in the hours preceding the intervention of the Libyan leader, international reactions have multiplied to condemn violence against demonstrators. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, has demanded the opening of an "independent international investigation into the violence, suggestive of possible" crimes against humanity.
" >> See: Gaddafi abandoned by some of its diplomats from many other countries, like Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States or China, have announced the dispatch of planes and ships to repatriate their nationals. Several thousands of Tunisians have also fled Libya in recent hours.
At the other end of the country, hundreds of Egyptians - they are about a million and half of expats - have flocked to the crossing point of Saloum. >> Read: The repatriation of foreign nationals still reassuring promises of the first oil producer in OPEC, Saudi Arabia, do not seem calm markets.
"Saudi Arabia has excess capacity and are well used when it became necessary in the past," assured the deputy Saudi oil minister, Abdul Aziz bin Salman. In France, a liter of diesel at the pump has sold more than 1.30 euros, its highest level since September 2008. >> Read: The flaming oil, the price of gasoline flies Le Monde.
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In his speech, the Libyan leader has rejected outright calls for his departure from power, claiming: "Muammar Gaddafi has no official position he resigned. Muammar Gaddafi is the leader of the revolution, synonymous sacrifices until the end of days. " He spoke at length about the situation in Benghazi, the epicenter of the revolt, returning repeatedly, pitting residents of this city to the rest of the Libyans, in a tone very close to a call for civil war.
"We could have used tanks and aircraft. We will start work tonight," he said, not that we know what he meant. Evidence has been reported in several cities Libyan bombing earlier in the week. Undaunted, Muammar Gaddafi has promised to quell the revolt even if it requires "purge Libya house by house".
The leader, in power since 1969, called the army and police, but his supporters to take the situation in hand to "restore order". He hammered the need to turn to the popular committees, established during his rise to power. According to a chart presented Tuesday evening by those in power, the violence has been dead three hundred - two hundred and forty to two civilians and fifty-eight soldiers - in the country.
Nearly half the victims have been identified in Benghazi outbreak of the insurgency. These are the first official figures on the victims of the uprising which began a week ago. According to Human Rights Watch, the repression was at least seventy-two dead in the capital Tripoli since Sunday, adding to a balance of two hundred and thirty to three deaths given by the organization Monday morning.
Later in the evening on Tuesday, the chairman of the Libyan Parliament assured during a press conference that calm had been "restored to most major cities" of the country where "security forces and army (had ) resumed their positions. " >> See: Gaddafi: "I will fight until the last drop of my blood" Along the coast road to Tobruk, she noted the destruction of all symbols of the regime, whose monuments recalling the Green Book "guide" of the revolution and the replacement of the green flag Jamahiriyya ("state of the masses") by the tricolor banner of Libyan independence in 1951.
Reportedly it has collected on site, the city has raised five days ago. A town square has been renamed the name of a victim of the repressive regime in the 1980s. Part of the army allegedly colluded with the opposition. By late afternoon, information from the rebels who took control of the city of Benghazi, more than three hundred kilometers west of Tobruk, were reported to fire heavy weapons from the forces still loyal to Colonel Qaddafi.
The Arab League for its part announced that Libya's participation in meetings of the pan-Arab organization was suspended. At their meeting in Cairo, representatives of twenty-two Arab countries have also indicated they would recommend to the ministerial meeting of the League, March 3, to consider the suspension of Libya "as a member" of this proceeding.
>> Read: The Security Council UN calls for "the immediate cessation" of violence in the hours preceding the intervention of the Libyan leader, international reactions have multiplied to condemn violence against demonstrators. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, has demanded the opening of an "independent international investigation into the violence, suggestive of possible" crimes against humanity.
" >> See: Gaddafi abandoned by some of its diplomats from many other countries, like Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States or China, have announced the dispatch of planes and ships to repatriate their nationals. Several thousands of Tunisians have also fled Libya in recent hours.
At the other end of the country, hundreds of Egyptians - they are about a million and half of expats - have flocked to the crossing point of Saloum. >> Read: The repatriation of foreign nationals still reassuring promises of the first oil producer in OPEC, Saudi Arabia, do not seem calm markets.
"Saudi Arabia has excess capacity and are well used when it became necessary in the past," assured the deputy Saudi oil minister, Abdul Aziz bin Salman. In France, a liter of diesel at the pump has sold more than 1.30 euros, its highest level since September 2008. >> Read: The flaming oil, the price of gasoline flies Le Monde.
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