Representing Jewish Communities in 100 Countries Across Six Continents
Representing Jewish Communities in 100 Countries Across Six Continents
17 February 2011
Libyan protesters seeking to oust longtime leader Muammar al-Gaddafi defied a crackdown and took to the streets in four cities on Thursday on what activists have dubbed a day of rage. Media reported that at least 14 demonstrators were killed in clashes with pro-government forces. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Libyan authorities had also detained 14 activists, writers and protesters who had been preparing the anti-government protests. The group called on the regime in Libya to free everyone detained for their role in anti-government protests.
The opposition website 'Libya Al-Youm' said four protesters were killed by snipers from the Internal Security Forces in the city of Beyida. The website also said there was a demonstration in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. Switzerland-based activist Fathi al-Warfali said 11 protesters were killed in Beyida on Wednesday night, and scores were wounded. Al-Warfali, head of the Libyan Committee for Truth and Justice, said two more people were killed in another city, Zentana, on Thursday while one protester was killed in Rijban, a town about 120 kilometers southwest of the capital Tripoli.
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Whilst I understand the need for UN intivrenteon in Libya, there is a huge question mark as to why nothing has been done about the years of torture and abuse of human rights that have gone on in countries like Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia with no military intivrenteon or air strikes by the West ..Simple answer: these countries have no strategic or economic interest to the great United States of America!!!!!It is the USA's wasteful squandering of the world's limited oil resource that has helped towards the spiralling price of oil wake up Europe and the rest of the world, the more we look for alternative energy sources the more oil there is left for the gas-guzzling USA!!!!
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