Thursday, March 10, 2011

Rebels have been forcefully evacuated from Libyan oil port


Libyan activists are escaping from the oil port of Ras Lanuf after continued shelling by pro-Gaddafi forces.
According to the latest report the revolutionary groups were travelling eastwards through vehicles after hitting under fire with rockets and shells. Also Libyan TV says that the troops have also cleared rebels from oil port of Sidra, west of Ras Lanuf. In the present days Qaddafi forces have been striving to regain places from the rebels dominated east, as well as the town of Zawiya, west of Tripoli.
In the mean time France has become the first country distinguish the Libyan activist’s leadership, the National Transitional Council (NTC), as the country's legal government. The decision came as Nato meet up to discuss all possible military option over Libyan dispute including the opportunity of striking a no-fly zone.
There has been severe hostility in Libya since 15th of February, when the rivals of Col Gaddafi who has been ruling from 41-year, capture various cities and towns in eastern Libya, as the inspiration of significant famous protests in neighboring countries such as Tunisia and Egypt.
Another report says that on Ras Lanuf tanks set by pro-Gaddafi forces had remained to their easternmost position since the battle started. An eyewitness of Ras Lanuf told that he had seen a large number of dead bodies in the residential area on this town. The town’s hospital had been abandoned due to heavy shelling and a mosque had also been hit by the Qaddafi forces where the families of oil workers live.  
One Libyan citizen told that the pro-Qaddafi forces are targeting us with fighter jets, tanks and heavy arsenals while we are unarmed civilian and many families’ kids were also hit by the forces consequently we will certainly defeated by the forces due to huge difference in equipment. But Reuters referred rebels as rejecting that the town had fallen. Qaddafi’s planes also bombed Brega, another oil port further east. Another witness told that the rebels are capable to fight with Qaddafi forces but they are defenseless against air strike. The attack is also targeting to the oil sources.
Most of the area of Zawiya, 50km west of Tripoli, is now probably to be either largely or wholly under the control of Qaddafi forces. According to the report of Times of London the central part of Zawiya was under supervision of government forces while an operation of cleaning purpose is continued after days of severe fighting.  The military advancement may be transferring in Col Gaddafi's help have encouraged demands for immediate international action.
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the organisation had agreed to enhance its naval existence in the central Mediterranean to assist impose the arms ban against Libya. But he said more arrangement would be required on a possible "no-fly" zone.
Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State has declared that she will visit to Egypt and Tunisia in the next week, and that she will get together with rebel leaders during her visit. She said "We are getting in touch with the opposition inside and outside of Libya,"
The International Committee of the Red Cross’s president said that there was a huge rises casualties in common people and he called it A Civil War. A BBC team held and tortured up in Libya witnessed extensive abuse by the security forces. They were subjected to ridicule carrying out and held for 21 hours in gory cells, where they listened to the people lauding in contiguous rooms. 

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