اكتب تعليقك. After the air raids, Gaddafi's death squads keep blood on Tripoli's streets | World news. On the eerily quiet streets of Tripoli, as the rain of Monday night gave way to sunshine on Tuesday morning, the macabre aftermath of Gaddafi's forces' air and ground attacks lay strewn on squares and curbsides for all to see. Residents described bullet-ridden corpses slumped in streets of residential areas and the roads around Green Square. This was the remains of the "bloodbath", one said. Relatives of the missing wanted to retrieve the dead for burial but locals said they were afraid to venture out to pick up the bodies. Death squads of foreign mercenaries were patrolling streets and shooting at groups of people who ventured out, according to several witnesses. "Men in brand new Mitsubishi cars without licence plates are shooting at groups of people, three or four, wherever they see them gathering outside," said a resident of the Tripoli neighbourhood of Fashloum, a working class area where protesters had gathered in recent nights.
Phone lines were still down across Libya on Tuesday. Officers Found Executed After Refusing To Kill Protesters - Part 1. Libya: Security Council, UN officials urge end to use of force against protesters. 22 February 2011 – The Security Council and top United Nations officials today urged the Libyan Government to immediately end its violent crackdown on protesters and to meet its responsibility to protect its population. Council members “condemned the violence and use of force against civilians, deplored the repression against peaceful demonstrators, and expressed deep regret at the deaths of hundreds of civilians,” Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti of Brazil, which holds the monthly presidency of the 15-member body for February, said in a statement read out to the press following closed-door talks on the crisis.
“They called for an immediate end to the violence and for steps to address the legitimate demands of the population, including through national dialogue,” she said. “They underscored the need to hold to account those responsible for attacks, including by forces under their control, on civilians,” the statement added. Mr. Mr. The Secretary-General Off the Cuff. Secretary-General remarks to the press on Libya [scroll down for Arabic] Los Angeles, California, USA, 21 February 2011 SG: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I just wanted to speak with you about this ongoing situation in Libya. Like you and many others around the world, I have seen very disturbing and shocking scenes, where Libyan authorities have been firing at demonstrators from warplanes and helicopters. This is unacceptable. This must stop immediately. Q: You said you spoke to Colonel Qaddafi this morning. SG: I forcefully urged him to stop violence against demonstrators and I again strongly underlined the importance of respecting the human rights of those demonstrators and heeding their urgent aspirations and calls. Q: There have been suggestions that Qaddafi might be preparing to leave Libya.
SG: I have no information about that. Q: How long did you speak with him? SG: I spoke with him extensively. Q: One of the issues is the reports of Libyan aircraft firing on protesters. Untitled. Violence grips Libyan capital - Africa. Live blog: N. Africa, Mideast protests – State Dept to U.S. citizens: Get out of Libya. Across the Middle East and North Africa, CNN's reporters and iReporters are covering protests, many of them inspired by revolts in Tunisia and Egypt that toppled those countries' longtime rulers.
Check out our story explaining the roots of the unrest in each country. Have a story to tell from the scene? Click here to send an iReport. Developments on unrest in the Middle East and North Africa: LIBYA 11:45 p.m. "Like you and many others around the world, I have seen very disturbing and shocking scenes, where Libyan authorities have been firing at demonstrators from warplanes and helicopters," Ban said from Los Angeles. LIBYA, 11:22 p.m. LIBYA, 11:09 p.m. BAHRAIN, 8:51 p.m. More on the Bahrain protests: LIBYA, 7:40 p.m. The Egyptian military has set up refugee camps near its border with Libya and set up two mobile hospitals at the Salloum border crossing to assist Egyptians fleeing the protests in Libya, Egypt's state-run news website EgyNews reported late Monday.
LIBYA, 7:33 p.m. Moammar Gaddafi must pay for atrocities. Libya: Governments Should Demand End to Unlawful Killings. Update: Death Toll Up to At Least 233 The estimated death toll from four days of protests in cities across Libya has risen to at least 233 according to information from hospital sources in Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. From Benghazi, staff at Al Jalaa hospital said they recorded 50 dead on February 20, 2011, while the 7 October hospital reported another 10 dead the same day, giving a total of 60 killed in Benghazi on February 20. This raises the overall death toll from protests in five Libyan cities to 233 since February 17.
Human Rights Watch was unable to contact two other hospitals in Benghazi. (New York) - The African Union and African, Western, and Arab countries that have relations with Libya should urge the Libyan government to stop the unlawful killing of protesters, Human Rights Watch said today. Three eyewitnesses confirmed that the security officers in distinctive uniform with yellow berets fired indiscriminately on protesters.
Qaddafi?s Son Warns of Civil War as Libyan Protests Widen. Clashes in Libya Worsen as Army Crushes Dissent. Libyan Disconnect. Final updates on this thread added at the bottom. New analysis here. –jim Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya is off the Internet. One Libyan route originated by Telecom Italia directly is still BGP-reachable, but inbound traceroutes appear to die in Palermo. A minority of our peers report some surviving paths through the peering connection between Level3 and Telecom Italia, but traceroutes into those prefixes fail, suggesting that the Libyan cutoff is complete.
We wondered whether anyone would repeat Egypt’s strategy. Update 06:39 UTC Saturday 19 Feb 2011 Corrected above report to reflect GMT+2 time zone. Two-thirds of Libyan routes came back to life at 6:01 UTC (8:01 local time), and the remainder were restored nine minutes later. Update 18:10 UTC Monday 21 Feb 2011 Libya has continued to have periods of partial or total unreachability through the weekend. Libya protests: massacres reported as Gaddafi imposes news blackout | World news. Demonstrators opposed to the regime of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi gather in Hyde Park, London. Supporters of the leader also rallied nearby Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Libyans have taken to the streets and buried their dead, accusing government forces of perpetrating massacres in Benghazi and other towns said to have been taken over by anti-regime protesters.
Opposition sources claimed that at least 61 protesters had been killed in three days of unprecedented unrest largely in Libya's impoverished eastern region, though it was not possible to confirm that figure. Human Rights Watch reported that 24 people had been killed by Thursday. Diplomats reported the use of heavy weapons in Benghazi, Libya's second city, and "a rapidly deteriorating situation" in the latest Arab country to be hit by serious unrest. In one highly significant development, prisoners were reported to have escaped en masse from al-Jadida jail in the capital, Tripoli, which has so far been calm.
Updated: Libyan fighter jets arrive in Malta - pilots request asylum. You need Javascript and either Adobe Flash 9 or Html5 to view this video. Two Libyan Air Force Mirage jet fighters unexpectedly flew to Malta this afternoon with their pilots claiming they escaped to Malta after having been ordered to bomb protesters who have taken control of the second city of Benghazi. The pilots told the Maltese authorities that they left from a base near Tripoli. Their aircraft were armed with air to ground rockets. The pilots initially asked for emergency clearance to land and for refuelling. Upon landing they were questioned by the police and sought political asylum. Their arrival followed shortly after the arrival of two civilian helicopters which flew in and landed at Malta International Airport this afternoon carrying seven people.
Informed sources said the helicopters 'escaped from Libya with no official clearance' but arrived in Malta regularly. Such was the haste of their departure from Libya, that only one of the passengers was carrying a passport. Hundreds flee Libyan clashes; go to Egypt.