“…the Gaddafi regime is accelerating attacks on Misurata, using sophisticated weapons including GRAD missiles, with the aim of breaching the city and massacring its civilians including women, children and the elderly. The mass killings have begun this morning.
The Council sends this appeal to the international community to assume its responsibilities, and move urgently to stop the anticipated massacre of men, women and children. The NTC is calling on the international community to use all necessary measures to ensure the implementation of UNSCR 1973 to protect civilians, by declaring Misurata an internationally protected zone, and insist on delivering medical and humanitarian aid to the people of Misurata who are subject to continuous indiscriminate shelling.Here also Reuters Libya, April 14 (Reuters) -
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Libyan rebels begged for more NATO air strikes on Thursday and said they faced a massacre from government forces, who blasted the besieged city of Misrata with a barrage of missiles.…
Aid organisations warn of a humanitarian disaster in Misrata, the lone major rebel bastion in western Libya, where hundreds of civilians are said to have died in a six-week siege.
MISURATA, Libya — Military forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who have surrounded this city and vowed to crush its anti-Qaddafi rebellion, have been firing into residential neighborhoods with heavy weapons, including cluster bombs that have been banned by much of the world and ground-to-ground rockets,...Here from yesteday NYT
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Such “indiscriminate” weapons, which strike large areas with a dense succession of high-explosive munitions, by their nature cannot be fired precisely, and when fired into populated areas place civilians at grave risk.
Here from CNN
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have fired cluster munitions into residential areas in the besieged western city of Misrata, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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A spokesman for the Libyan government said the charge was not true. "We would never use such weapons against Libyan people,"… "Also, the world is watching, so we just could not do it."
Gaddafis' logical argument: Yes we are killing the Libyan people the normal way but not the humanitarian but our way. We are body of killers heart of liars, the way just we do it, we just can not kill Libyan people inhumanitarian but the humanitarian way that is Gaddafis way!
Mind of killers, vision of horrors, souls of slaughters that is their very own endings!!!
This from CNN
This from CNN
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"The International Criminal Court (ICC) is rightly investigating the crimes committed against civilians and the grievous violations of international law." The message: not only must Gadhafi leave Libya; he should expect to be pursued for war crimes... keep reading
