Posted in Air Strike, Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Government, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, Property Damage, tagged air strikes, civilian casulaties, gaddafi, Libya, Nato, Zlitan on August 11, 2011|
BBC | Matthew Price | August 11, 2011
The Libyan government has taken correspondents to Zlitan, to see the aftermath of a Nato strike that it says killed 85 civilians. Nato says it hit a military staging base. The BBC’s Matthew Price went along to weigh the competing claims.
A photocopied version of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea lay in the rubble. Next to it were school books, their pages fluttering in the light breeze. (more…)
Posted in Africa, Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, Diplomacy, Government, Insurgents, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, Property Damage, United States, tagged air strikes, civilian casulaties, gaddafi, Libya, Libyan rebels, National Transitional Council, Nato on August 9, 2011| 1 Comment »
AFP | Herve Bar | August 9, 2011
BENGHAZI, Libya — The United States has launched a diplomatic offensive against Libya among African nations as Tripoli accused NATO of a “massacre” of 85 villagers in air strikes in support of rebels.
American diplomats are visiting several African countries as part of efforts to urge leaders to press Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi to leave power immediately, officials in Washington said on Tuesday. (more…)
Posted in Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, Government, Insurgents, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, Property Damage, tagged airstrike, civilian casulaties, gaddafi, Libya, Libyan rebels, Nato, Transitional National Council, Zlitan on August 5, 2011|
CNN | Ivan Watson & Jomana Karadsheh | August 5, 2011
Zlitan, Libya — A grown man sobbed as friends led him out of the mosque. Mustafa Naji al-Mrabet’s left hand and feet were bandaged, there were bloodstains on his robes, and the valve for an intravenous needle still stuck out of his arm. He was both a husband and a father, deep in mourning.
Nearby, his brother-in-law, 26-year-old Abubakr Ali cried like a child. Ali pulled back the blankets covering two small coffins. Inside lay the bloody bodies of his nephews, Mohamed and Motez al-Mrabet, ages 5 and 3. Their mother Ibtisam lay in a coffin beside them. (more…)
Posted in Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, Government, Insurgents, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, tagged airstrikes, civilian casulaties, gaddafi, Libya, Libyan rebels, Nato, Zlitan on August 4, 2011|
VOA News | August 4, 2011
The Libyan government is accusing NATO of bombing civilian targets in Zlitan, a western town that has been the scene of recent clashes between pro-government and rebel forces.
The government made the accusations through its state-controlled television station on Thursday, a day after officials denied rebel claims that opposition fighters had gained control of the town. (more…)
Posted in Foreign Aid, Government, Insurgents, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, United Nations, tagged gaddafi, humanitarian aid, Libya, Libyan rebels, Nato, UNSC on July 29, 2011|
Reuters | Louis Charbonneau | July 29, 2011
UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. Security Council panel that has been deadlocked for months is prepared to release Libyan assets frozen under U.N. sanctions to purchase humanitarian aid, Portugal’s U.N. envoy said on Friday.
The two warring factions in Libya — those aligned with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and rebels fighting since February to oust him — have both asked the United Nations to free up Libyan assets to designated humanitarian agencies able to deliver aid. (more…)
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Clusters/Mines, Government, Insurgents, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, tagged gaddafi, land mines, Libyan rebels, Nato, Tripoli on July 27, 2011|
UPI | July 27, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya, July 27 (UPI) — Libyan rebels say they’re finding thousands of land mines in civilian areas as they press toward the country’s capital city of Tripoli.
The number of mines found and deactivated by the rebels has swollen from hundreds to thousands as the fighters move into towns abandoned by troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. (more…)
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Courts, Diplomacy, Government, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, tagged gaddafi, ICC, Libya, Libyan rebels, Nato, UNSC 1970, William Hague on July 26, 2011|
The Gaurdian | Richard Norton-Taylor & Chris Stephen | July 26, 2011
The international criminal court has dismissed suggestions by Britain and France that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi could be allowed to remain in Libya as part of negotiated deal to remove him from power, insisting that a new government would be obliged to arrest the dictator under warrants issued by the court.
The ICC, which Britain and France have signed up to, said that Gaddafi could not be allowed to escape justice. “He has to be arrested,” said Florence Olara, spokeswoman for the court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. (more…)
