利比亚东部一些城市被抗议方控制

利比亚局势大逆转 精兵倒戈对抗卡扎菲

太阳报    2011-02-21 16:01:57

卡达菲向人民大开杀戒，军队、部落也看不过眼，纷纷倒戈。班加西居民透露，卡达菲麾下精锐的雳部队（Thunderbolt）已掉转枪头对抗暴君，并击败政府护衞部队，取得班加西等数个城镇控制权。报道指军方总参谋长贾比尔因倒戈支持示威者，遭到软禁。 目击者称：「指挥中心大楼是班加西现时唯一还有政府军的地方，其馀地方都解放了。」民众纷纷上街喊口号庆祝，高呼：「班加西自由了！」汽车响按大作。但十三名保安部队人员因拒绝向示威者开枪，全遭轰毙后放火烧尸。反对派指卡达菲出动军机轰炸示威者。 利比亚最大部落之一、逾百万成员的瓦尔法拉（Warfala）加入反对阵营，又成功劝说另一个拥有五十万人的图阿雷格（Tuareg）部落加入。 司法和安全部长辞职 瓦尔法拉领袖指卡达菲一定要离开利比亚，另一部落的领袖更威胁，如当局不停止镇压，将切断通往西方的供油管道。 利比亚驻中国大使穆斯拉提和驻印度大使埃萨维昨日分别请辞，其中穆斯拉提要求军队介入保护平民，又促请该国其他外交官辞职。利比亚司法部长不满当局过分使用武力，已经辞职。安全部长亦已辞职。

 

Libya Bombs Protesters With Military Aircraft As All Hell Breaks Loose

http://m.neontommy.com/news/2011/02/libya-bombs-protesters-military-aircraft-all-hell-breaks-loose

Kevin Douglas Grant | February 21, 2011
Executive Editor

 

UPDATED 4:09 p.m. PST: Dictator Muammar Gaddafi makes a 5 second appearance on Libyan state TV, sitting in a car with an unbrella filmed by BBC. Al Jazeera English reports that he said, "I am in Tripoli, not Venezuela."

 

UPDATED 3:40 P.M. PST:  Reuters reports that the feared "Thunderbolt" military unit may have defected from the government. Both the U.S. and the UN have escalated earlier more moderate condemnations of the Libyan regime.

Secretary of State Clinton denounced what she called "unacceptable bloodhsed." 

A growing call by unternational community to declare a no-fly zone over Libya to block Gaddafi's air force from the further reprisals against civilian population on Monday.

CNN releaes video of Libyan soldiers reportedly burned alive for siding with demonstrarors.

UPDATED 3:15 P.M. PST: Libya's Ambassaor to the U.S. has condenmed the Gaddafi regime for killing its own people but has not resigned. Libya's deputy ambassador to the United Nations has called the killings in his country genocide.

UPDATED: 12:35 p.m. PST:  Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa against Gaddafi on Al Jazeera Monday evening, a religious decree for "any solider, any man who can pull the trigger" to kill the dictator.

UPDATED: 12:15 p.m. PST: Two "senior colonels" defected to Malta rather than fire upon their own people, CNN reports.

With Tripoli's parliament building on fire, the Libyan military is reportedly firing at will against demonstrators who have seized control of Libya's capital.

Al Jazeera confirmed with eyewitnesses on the ground that the military had laucnhed a bombing campagin against civilians, adding to a death toll already estimated above 400.

One tweet out of Tripoli's Green Square said Monday: "A sea of blood in Tripoli. A holocaust in the middle of the Green Square. It has become red." 

Mercenaries are pouring into the country as rumors circulated that Col. Moammar Gaddafi has fled his compound in Tripoli, with one report suggesting he is en route to Venezuela.  The Telegraph reports that Gadaffi has lost control of much of the country:

"The eastern city of Benghazi fell to demonstrators after military units deserted their posts on Monday, the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights said. Sirte, Tobruk Misrata, Khoms, Tarhounah, Zenten, Al-Zawiya and Zouara, were also reported to have fallen to protesters."

The international media has flocked to the Libyan border, though a longtime ban on foreign journalists in Libya means that confirming events there is a difficult and error-riddled process.

"The world's media was today preparing for the "floodgates to open" on Egypt's western border as the uprising threatens to engulf Gaddafi's 41-year rule in Libya."

Meanwhile, mulitnational oil companies are in the process of evacuating employees from Africa's largest oil producer.  

Thousands of Europeans have already fled the country.