Report: Libyan protesters fired on

[maddezmom]

Source: Al Jazeera

Reports say live ammuntion is being used against protesters marching on the compound of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader.

The Libyan News Centre (LNC) based in Geneva, Switzerland, announced on Monday afternoon that Libyan security forces were killing protesters in Tripoli.

Ahmed Elgazir, a human rights researcher, said the LNC received a call for help from a woman "witnessing the massacre in progress who called on a satellite phone".



Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201122116042447579.html

[brooklynite]

1. AJE also reporting military aircraft are firing on protesters

[maddezmom]

2. yeah the breaking banner has a lot of info: Reports: Live ammunition fired on protesters marching

Reports: Live ammunition fired on protesters marching on Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Libyan capital Tripoli
Reports also say Libyan military jets attacking protesters in Tripoli
All landline and wireless communications cut in Libya
Venezuelan official denies UK foreign minister's claim that Gaddafi is flying to the country

[maddezmom]

3. another: Libyan state TV says large-scale military operation under way against 'pockets of terror'

[snagglepuss]

4. Libyan airforce firing on protestors.

Source: CBC News

Breaking news on CBC. No link yet.

No link yet.

[Boswell]

5. and Walker is probably is wishing they would fly here...

[somone]

7. Walker would have no compunction about firing on teachers

That's for sure

[tabatha]

6. Reading the twitter feed, this is disgusting

a holocaust is being perpetrated in Libya.

Tanks are driving over and crushing people; military airplanes bombing protesters; soldiers who refuse to shoot at people are being killed.

Good God.

[Turborama]

8. Al Jazeera English: Libya protests spread and intensify

Security forces open fire on anti-government demonstrators in Tripoli, as protests escalate across the country.

Last Modified: Feb 21 2011 16:15 GMT

Dozens have been reported dead after more violence hit the Libyan capital as angry protests against embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi's 40-year rule escalate across the country.

At least 61 people were killed in clashes in Tripoli on Monday, witnesses told Al Jazeera. The protests appeared to be gathering momentum, with demonstrators saying they had taken control of several key towns in the country, including the city of Benghazi.

Another huge march under way in Tripoli on Monday afternoon was reportedly under attack by security forces using military planes and live ammunition to fire on protesters, sources told Al Jazeera.

Ahmed Elgazir, a human rights researcher at the Libyan News Centre (LNC) also told Al Jazeera that security forces were "massacring" protesters in Tripoli.

Full article: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/2011221133557377576.html

[maddezmom]

9. reporter on Al Jaz saying now she hasn't been able to reach anyone in Tripoli

for over 2 hours, times like this provide cover for massacres to happen.

[Turborama]

13. Libyan guy on AJE just said you can't even use satellite phones in Libya

You're right. But there are a lot of people recording what is going on, it's just a matter of how long it takes before it all gets out.

[maddezmom]

10. Libya air force jets in Malta, pilots seek asylum

Libya air force jets in Malta, pilots seek asylum
By GEORGE CINI
ASSOCIATED PRESS

VALLETTA, Malta -- Two Libyan air force jets have arrived in Malta and military officials say their pilots have asked for political asylum amid a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters in Libya.

The two Mirage jets arrived Monday shortly after two civilian helicopters landed at the airport carrying seven people who said they were French.

A military source familiar with the situation said the jet pilots, Libyan air force colonels, were allowed to land after they communicated from the air that they wanted asylum. They had left from a base near Tripoli and had flown low over


http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103ap_eu_malta_libya.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. Military aircraft attack Libya crowds

Source: Al Jazeera

LONDON (Reuters) - Military aircraft attacked crowds of anti-government protesters in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday, Al Jazeera television said.

A Libyan man, Soula al-Balaazi, who said he was an opposition activist, told the network by telephone that Libyan air force warplanes had bombed "some locations in Tripoli".

He said he was talking from a suburb of Tripoli.

No independent verification of the report was immediately available.

Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE71K0K820110221

[Robbien]

19. Some are saying these warplanes are Berlesconi's

Libyan military are said to have refused to drop explosives on their fellow citizens.

[Shining Jack]

12. K&R n/t

[DLnyc]

14. maybe it's time for NATO or Egypt or everyone to bomb Libya's airforce out

of existence?

[Divine Discontent]

15. when military jets are being used to slaughter civilian protestors challenging how the govt is being

ran, I think it may be time for the world's govt's to inform him he better leave for his own sake.

[nalnn]

16. Libya unleashes warplanes, gunfire on protesters

Source: CBS News

Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time. Moammar al Qaddafi's son vowed that his father and security forces would fight "until the last bullet."

A doctor inside the country said six days of anti-government protests -- met by a brutal reaction from government security forces and alleged paid mercenaries -- had left more than 300 people dead.

Protesters demanding Qaddafi's ouster planed new marches in the capital's main Green Square and at the leader's residence for Monday evening. That was likely to bring a new round of violence after a similar march the night before prompted clashes that lasted till dawn, with witnesses reporting snipers opening fire on protesters and Qaddafi supporters racing through crowds in trucks and cars, firing automatic weapons and running people over.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/21/501364/main20034337.shtml?tag=stack

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Reminds me of the Shia uprising after the First Gulf War. Just horrible. :(

[maddezmom]

17. 24 rights groups urge US and EU to confront Libyan massacres in UN Security Council and Human Rights

24 rights groups urge US and EU to confront Libyan massacres in UN Security Council and Human Rights
An international coalition of 24 rights groups urged world powers to convene the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Council to protect Libyan civilians from government killings, in a letter sent today to the U.S., the EU and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. (See full text below)


Signatories include the U.S.-based National Endowment for Democracy and Physicians for Human Rights, the Geneva-based UN Watch, and 21 other groups from Switzerland, India, Liberia, Italy, Nigeria, Germany, Sudan, Venezuela, Somalia, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.


The letter asserts that the widespread atrocities committed by Libya against its own people are "particularly odious" actions that amount to war crimes, requiring member states to take action through the Security Council under the responsibility to protect doctrine.


The appeal also calls for an emergency session of the Human Rights Council, in which Libya's membership on that body would be suspended, and an international inquiry team dispatched to he country.


"The muted response of the US and the EU to the Libyan atrocities is not only a let-down to the many Libyans risking their lives for freedom, but a shirking of their obligations, as members of the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, to protect peace and human rights, and to prevent war crimes," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, and an international lawyer who represents Libyan torture victims. instead of urgency and action -- the EU is failing the victims. It's time for basic human rights to come before oil," said Neuer.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x589558

[DLnyc]

18. Boy, it sure would be nice to hear Obama announce support for an emergnecy

session. Not to mention airlifting medical supplies.

I know he supports democracy. It would be nice to hear that he resists genocide.