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The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi
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chenye mwanzo hakikosi kuwa na mwisho,na ngoma ikilia sana mwisho hupasuka! yametimia yaliyoandikwa
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Gaddafi hits with deadly force
Libya's official news agency blames Israel for unrest, as security forces attack protesters.
Emad Mekay Last Modified: 21 Feb 2011 14:33 GMT
Protests against the Libyan leader have been taking place in London and around the world
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has unleashed a bloody crackdown against pro-democracy protestors seeking his ouster, killing dozens of people in only four days of protests.
On Sunday, the unrest spread to capital Tripoli from the eastern port city Benghazi. Libyan Internet activists have denounced the international community's failure to act over the "massacres" in Libya.
The Cairo-based Arab Organisation for Human Rights has decried the use of violence against the protestors in Libya and called for an international investigation. The Vienna-based Friends of Humanity said the Libyan regime's onslaught was tantamount to "war crimes".
There are conflicting reports on the death toll but it is generally believed to be in the hundreds now.
Human Rights Watch reports that 173 people had died prior to Monday. The London-based private newspaper Libya Al-Youm quoted a local doctor as saying that 285 people died in the eastern city of Benghazi alone.
Some 300 people have been killed in Benghazi, the country's second largest city, witnesses told Al Jazeera by phone.
The crackdown by Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya since 1969, threatens to make the revolt the most costly in terms of human lives and bloodshed in the wave of demonstrations sweeping across the region for greater freedoms.
Gaddafi, trying to stave off the fate of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt who were removed from power after facing similar protests, has resorted to much harsher military tactics than those used in uprisings in neighbouring Egypt or Tunisia.
His tactics include cutting off food, fuel and medical supplies as well as electricity to revolting cities. The regime also cut off most communications to try to make sure the unrest does not spread to other cities. But the move failed to prevent protests erupting in capital Tripoli on Sunday.
Pan-Arab news outlets report that Gaddafi's troops have used live ammunition and heavy military equipment such as anti-tank missiles in Benghazi. Late on Sunday fierce clashes were being reported in Tripoli.
Libya Al Youm reported on its website on Sunday that the regime was using "heavy weapons" and shooting at random.
The newspaper also carried a call for urgent supplies for Benghazi hospitals including blood.
"Muammar Gaddafi's security forces are firing on Libyan citizens and killing scores simply because they're demanding change and accountability," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
On top of its military response, the Gaddafi regime is trying to paint the revolt as a foreign plot to destabilise the country - a tool used by many other Arab regimes. After a long history of colonisation by Western powers and by Israel in the Palestinian territories, Arab people are deeply mistrustful of foreign interference.
The official Libyan News Agency (JANA) reported Sunday that the government was fighting an Israeli-inspired scheme to create anarchy in the country. It said that there were no genuine popular grievances behind the protests.
Israel is financing "separation" forces in the Arab region, JANA added.
Al-Shams newspaper, which is controlled by an arm of the information ministry in Tripoli, reported online that the government has exposed "foreign network elements" in several Libyan cities.
But online posts by Libyans and anti-Gaddafi demonstrators show that the protestors want regime change and democracy. Most of the uprising has so far centred around Eastern cities, especially the Mediterranean city of Benghazi. Protests were also reported in Baida, Ajdabiya, Zawiya and Derna before spreading to Tripoli.
The protests started Feb. 17 after Internet activists called for a "Day of Rage" against political and economic conditions for Libyans under Gaddafi.
On Sunday, the website, LibyaFeb17.com carried tweets and posts condemning the global indifference over the harsh tactics by Gaddafi's troops.
"It is precisely this silence that is a very serious issue in this terrifying situation," said one post. The post came after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Saturday he will not "bother" Gaddafi over the violent incidents.
In 2009, the Libyan government invested in Eni, an Italian oil company that has been operating in Libya since 1959. Eni is Libya's largest foreign oil producer.
Britain had said on Friday it was revoking arms export licences for Libya and Bahrain, another Arab country whose government is fighting popular protests. The ban will limit tear gas and ammunition sales that could be used to suppress protests.
Gaddafi had tried earlier to appear unruffled over the removal of two of his erstwhile allies, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia.
The state-sponsored Al-Jamahiriya TV, beamed via satellite to Arab countries, aired live interviews with officials and pundits calling for calm and "opening a dialogue."
The officials explained that the government was spending "hundreds of millions" of dollars on making Libyans' life better through investing in infrastructure, roads, schools and universities.
Libya's Al-Jamahiriya 2 was airing songs praising Gaddafi and eulogising his achievements. But the violent reaction is seen as an indication of the threat Gaddafi perceives.
A version of this article first appeared on the Inter Press Service News Agency.
UJUMBE HUMU
Ni Kizazi cha DotKom kama hao hapo juu ambao ndio tishio kubwa kwa viongozi madikteta, mafisadi, wanyanyasaji, chuki, visasi, umimi, kujikweza na kuendekeza misimamo mikali kupindukia kidini!!
Endapo wewe ni kiongozi wa ngazi yoyote na unaendekeza longo longo mojawapo au kaadha hapo juu basi ukae ukijua kwamba kizazi chetu hiki cha DotiKomu kinajing'ata meno ile mbaya kutaka kukutupa mbele zaidi ya dempo ya Vigunguti na mbegu ya aina yako isijitokeze tena katika kutaka kuvuruga maisha yetu kama taifa.
Libya's official news agency blames Israel for unrest, as security forces attack protesters.
Emad Mekay Last Modified: 21 Feb 2011 14:33 GMT
Protests against the Libyan leader have been taking place in London and around the world
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has unleashed a bloody crackdown against pro-democracy protestors seeking his ouster, killing dozens of people in only four days of protests.
On Sunday, the unrest spread to capital Tripoli from the eastern port city Benghazi. Libyan Internet activists have denounced the international community's failure to act over the "massacres" in Libya.
The Cairo-based Arab Organisation for Human Rights has decried the use of violence against the protestors in Libya and called for an international investigation. The Vienna-based Friends of Humanity said the Libyan regime's onslaught was tantamount to "war crimes".
There are conflicting reports on the death toll but it is generally believed to be in the hundreds now.
Human Rights Watch reports that 173 people had died prior to Monday. The London-based private newspaper Libya Al-Youm quoted a local doctor as saying that 285 people died in the eastern city of Benghazi alone.
Some 300 people have been killed in Benghazi, the country's second largest city, witnesses told Al Jazeera by phone.
The crackdown by Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya since 1969, threatens to make the revolt the most costly in terms of human lives and bloodshed in the wave of demonstrations sweeping across the region for greater freedoms.
Gaddafi, trying to stave off the fate of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt who were removed from power after facing similar protests, has resorted to much harsher military tactics than those used in uprisings in neighbouring Egypt or Tunisia.
His tactics include cutting off food, fuel and medical supplies as well as electricity to revolting cities. The regime also cut off most communications to try to make sure the unrest does not spread to other cities. But the move failed to prevent protests erupting in capital Tripoli on Sunday.
Pan-Arab news outlets report that Gaddafi's troops have used live ammunition and heavy military equipment such as anti-tank missiles in Benghazi. Late on Sunday fierce clashes were being reported in Tripoli.
Libya Al Youm reported on its website on Sunday that the regime was using "heavy weapons" and shooting at random.
The newspaper also carried a call for urgent supplies for Benghazi hospitals including blood.
"Muammar Gaddafi's security forces are firing on Libyan citizens and killing scores simply because they're demanding change and accountability," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
On top of its military response, the Gaddafi regime is trying to paint the revolt as a foreign plot to destabilise the country - a tool used by many other Arab regimes. After a long history of colonisation by Western powers and by Israel in the Palestinian territories, Arab people are deeply mistrustful of foreign interference.
The official Libyan News Agency (JANA) reported Sunday that the government was fighting an Israeli-inspired scheme to create anarchy in the country. It said that there were no genuine popular grievances behind the protests.
Israel is financing "separation" forces in the Arab region, JANA added.
Al-Shams newspaper, which is controlled by an arm of the information ministry in Tripoli, reported online that the government has exposed "foreign network elements" in several Libyan cities.
But online posts by Libyans and anti-Gaddafi demonstrators show that the protestors want regime change and democracy. Most of the uprising has so far centred around Eastern cities, especially the Mediterranean city of Benghazi. Protests were also reported in Baida, Ajdabiya, Zawiya and Derna before spreading to Tripoli.
The protests started Feb. 17 after Internet activists called for a "Day of Rage" against political and economic conditions for Libyans under Gaddafi.
On Sunday, the website, LibyaFeb17.com carried tweets and posts condemning the global indifference over the harsh tactics by Gaddafi's troops.
"It is precisely this silence that is a very serious issue in this terrifying situation," said one post. The post came after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Saturday he will not "bother" Gaddafi over the violent incidents.
In 2009, the Libyan government invested in Eni, an Italian oil company that has been operating in Libya since 1959. Eni is Libya's largest foreign oil producer.
Britain had said on Friday it was revoking arms export licences for Libya and Bahrain, another Arab country whose government is fighting popular protests. The ban will limit tear gas and ammunition sales that could be used to suppress protests.
Gaddafi had tried earlier to appear unruffled over the removal of two of his erstwhile allies, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia.
The state-sponsored Al-Jamahiriya TV, beamed via satellite to Arab countries, aired live interviews with officials and pundits calling for calm and "opening a dialogue."
The officials explained that the government was spending "hundreds of millions" of dollars on making Libyans' life better through investing in infrastructure, roads, schools and universities.
Libya's Al-Jamahiriya 2 was airing songs praising Gaddafi and eulogising his achievements. But the violent reaction is seen as an indication of the threat Gaddafi perceives.
A version of this article first appeared on the Inter Press Service News Agency.
UJUMBE HUMU
Ni Kizazi cha DotKom kama hao hapo juu ambao ndio tishio kubwa kwa viongozi madikteta, mafisadi, wanyanyasaji, chuki, visasi, umimi, kujikweza na kuendekeza misimamo mikali kupindukia kidini!!
Endapo wewe ni kiongozi wa ngazi yoyote na unaendekeza longo longo mojawapo au kaadha hapo juu basi ukae ukijua kwamba kizazi chetu hiki cha DotiKomu kinajing'ata meno ile mbaya kutaka kukutupa mbele zaidi ya dempo ya Vigunguti na mbegu ya aina yako isijitokeze tena katika kutaka kuvuruga maisha yetu kama taifa.
Mpevu
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Mkuu,
Kwa yote yatokeayo huko Libya na midle east kiujumla hayana chembe zenye kushabihiana na ISLAM, katika nchi hizo zote majority ya dini kuu ni Islam.
Hakuna uwezekano wa ku-mobilize waislamu globally na kwenda kumng'oa kiongozi wa nchi fulani kwa matakwa ya kuikuza dini yao, LA!
Islam si kama kundi la MAFIA.
Islam si kama FREEMASON.
Mpevu
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- Nov 23, 2010
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Chief,
My worries ni kwamba iwapo itafanyika 'international invasion' basi inawezekana ikawa ni chanzo cha vita kuu na kusambaa hovyo ikiwa na elements tofauti...ukoloni kurejea, biashara za mafuta, udini hapo midle east, etc.
Yaani juu ya yote ni hali kuwa tete zaidi kwa invasion yoyote, ila mauaji yafanyikayo pale ni makubwa, hatari na yahuzunisha. Ghaddafi anaweza kuangamiza viumbe wengi zaidi na hatimae kujimaliza ikizingatiwa ni mjeshi huyu jamaa.
Ni mtazamo wangu binafsi.
Uwezo Tunao
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Libyan pilots and diplomats defect
Group of army officers have also issued a statement urging fellow soldiers
to "join the people" and help remove Gaddafi.
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2011 05:03 GMT
The pilots claimed to have defected after refusing to follow orders to attack civilians protesting in Libya [AFP]
Two Libyan air force jets landed in Malta on Monday and their pilots have asked for political asylum. The pilots claimed to have defected after refusing to follow orders to attack civilians protesting in Benghazi in Libya.
The pilots, who said they were colonels in the Libyan air force, were being questioned by authorities in an attempt to verify their identities. Meanwhile, a group of Libyan army officers have issued a statement urging fellow soldiers to "join the people" and help remove Muammar Gaddafi.
The officers urged the rest of the Libyan army to march to Tripoli.
Diplomats side with protesters
Libya's ambassadors at several stations, including the US and the UN, have said that they are siding with protesters and have called for Gaddafi to quit.
Ali Aujali, the Libyan ambassador to the United States, became the latest diplomat to call for the Libyan leader's resignation, telling the Associated Press news agency on Monday night that Gaddafi must step down and give Libyans a chance "to make their future".
He said he was not resigning, as he worked for the Libyan people.
Also late on Monday, A.H. Elimam, Libya's ambassador to Bangladesh, resigned to protest against the killing of his family members by government soldiers.
Earlier on Monday, diplomats at Libya's mission to the United Nations sided with the revolt against their country's leader and called on the Libyan army to help overthrow "the tyrant Muammar Gaddafi."
In a statement issued as protests erupted across Libya, the mission's deputy chief and other staff said they were serving the Libyan people, demanded "the removal of the regime immediately" and urged other Libyan embassies to follow suit.
Gaddafi was waging a bloody battle to hang on to power as the revolt against his 41-year rule reached the capital, Tripoli.
The statement issued in New York said hundreds had died in the first five days of the uprising.
A spokesman for the UN mission, Dia al-Hotmani, said the statement had been issued by deputy permanent representative Ibrahim Dabbashi and other staff.
Abdurrahman Shalgham, Libya's ambassador to the UN, was not present at the press conference, but told the Al-Hayat newspaper that all of the diplomats the country's UN mission supported the statement "excluding me". He said that he was in touch with the Gaddafi government and was trying "to persuade them to stop these acts".
Hotmani said that at a meeting on Monday at the mission's New York offices, staff "expressed our sense of concern about the genocide going on in Libya".
"We are not seeing any reaction from the international community," he added.
"The tyrant Muammar Gaddafi has asserted clearly, through his sons the level of ignorance he and his children have, and how much he despises Libya and the Libyan people," the Arabic language statement said.
It condemned Gaddafi's use of "African mercenaries" to try to put down the rebellion and said it expected "an unprecedented massacre in Tripoli."
'Cut the snake's head'
The statement called on "the officers and soldiers of the Libyan army wherever they are and whatever their rank is ... to organise themselves and move towards Tripoli and cut the snake's head."
It appealed to the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone over Libyan cities to prevent mercenaries and weapons being shipped in.
It also urged guards at Libya's oil installations to protect them from any sabotage "by the coward tyrant," and urged countries to prevent Gaddafi from fleeing there and to be on the lookout for any money smuggling.
Dabbashi and his colleagues called on The Hague-based International Criminal Court to start an immediate inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity they said Gaddafi and his sons and followers had committed.
They called on employees of Libyan embassies all over the world to "stand with their people", especially the mission at the UN European headquarters in Geneva, which they said should seek action by the UN Human Rights Council there.
It was not immediately clear how many other Libyan embassies were likely to heed the call, although the country's ambassador in India, Ali al-Essawi, said he was resigning in protest at the violent crackdown in his homeland.
Libya's ambassadors to the European Union, Arab League and Indonesia have also resigned, while the embassies in Japan and Malaysia were shut on Tuesday.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
UJUMBE HUMU:
The ultimate legitimacy for any govenrment to rule will always be resting with the very ordinary people you daily see out there. And once the turn their back on you and says NO then you are srewed however mighty people may think you are.
Group of army officers have also issued a statement urging fellow soldiers
to "join the people" and help remove Gaddafi.
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2011 05:03 GMT
The pilots claimed to have defected after refusing to follow orders to attack civilians protesting in Libya [AFP]
Two Libyan air force jets landed in Malta on Monday and their pilots have asked for political asylum. The pilots claimed to have defected after refusing to follow orders to attack civilians protesting in Benghazi in Libya.
The pilots, who said they were colonels in the Libyan air force, were being questioned by authorities in an attempt to verify their identities. Meanwhile, a group of Libyan army officers have issued a statement urging fellow soldiers to "join the people" and help remove Muammar Gaddafi.
The officers urged the rest of the Libyan army to march to Tripoli.
Diplomats side with protesters
Libya's ambassadors at several stations, including the US and the UN, have said that they are siding with protesters and have called for Gaddafi to quit.
Ali Aujali, the Libyan ambassador to the United States, became the latest diplomat to call for the Libyan leader's resignation, telling the Associated Press news agency on Monday night that Gaddafi must step down and give Libyans a chance "to make their future".
He said he was not resigning, as he worked for the Libyan people.
Also late on Monday, A.H. Elimam, Libya's ambassador to Bangladesh, resigned to protest against the killing of his family members by government soldiers.
Earlier on Monday, diplomats at Libya's mission to the United Nations sided with the revolt against their country's leader and called on the Libyan army to help overthrow "the tyrant Muammar Gaddafi."
In a statement issued as protests erupted across Libya, the mission's deputy chief and other staff said they were serving the Libyan people, demanded "the removal of the regime immediately" and urged other Libyan embassies to follow suit.
Gaddafi was waging a bloody battle to hang on to power as the revolt against his 41-year rule reached the capital, Tripoli.
The statement issued in New York said hundreds had died in the first five days of the uprising.
A spokesman for the UN mission, Dia al-Hotmani, said the statement had been issued by deputy permanent representative Ibrahim Dabbashi and other staff.
Abdurrahman Shalgham, Libya's ambassador to the UN, was not present at the press conference, but told the Al-Hayat newspaper that all of the diplomats the country's UN mission supported the statement "excluding me". He said that he was in touch with the Gaddafi government and was trying "to persuade them to stop these acts".
Hotmani said that at a meeting on Monday at the mission's New York offices, staff "expressed our sense of concern about the genocide going on in Libya".
"We are not seeing any reaction from the international community," he added.
"The tyrant Muammar Gaddafi has asserted clearly, through his sons the level of ignorance he and his children have, and how much he despises Libya and the Libyan people," the Arabic language statement said.
It condemned Gaddafi's use of "African mercenaries" to try to put down the rebellion and said it expected "an unprecedented massacre in Tripoli."
'Cut the snake's head'
The statement called on "the officers and soldiers of the Libyan army wherever they are and whatever their rank is ... to organise themselves and move towards Tripoli and cut the snake's head."
It appealed to the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone over Libyan cities to prevent mercenaries and weapons being shipped in.
It also urged guards at Libya's oil installations to protect them from any sabotage "by the coward tyrant," and urged countries to prevent Gaddafi from fleeing there and to be on the lookout for any money smuggling.
Dabbashi and his colleagues called on The Hague-based International Criminal Court to start an immediate inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity they said Gaddafi and his sons and followers had committed.
They called on employees of Libyan embassies all over the world to "stand with their people", especially the mission at the UN European headquarters in Geneva, which they said should seek action by the UN Human Rights Council there.
It was not immediately clear how many other Libyan embassies were likely to heed the call, although the country's ambassador in India, Ali al-Essawi, said he was resigning in protest at the violent crackdown in his homeland.
Libya's ambassadors to the European Union, Arab League and Indonesia have also resigned, while the embassies in Japan and Malaysia were shut on Tuesday.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
UJUMBE HUMU:
The ultimate legitimacy for any govenrment to rule will always be resting with the very ordinary people you daily see out there. And once the turn their back on you and says NO then you are srewed however mighty people may think you are.
Askari Kanzu
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"I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. Do not believe the channels belonging to stray dogs," - Muammar Gaddafi
"Bado nipo Tripoli na sio Venezuela. Usiamini runinga za mbwa koko" - Muammar Gaddafi
Swali: Hivi baada ya mauaji yote yanayotokea katika nchi yake Ghadafi anaamua kufanya mchezo wa kuigiza kama huu aufanyao?
"Bado nipo Tripoli na sio Venezuela. Usiamini runinga za mbwa koko" - Muammar Gaddafi
Swali: Hivi baada ya mauaji yote yanayotokea katika nchi yake Ghadafi anaamua kufanya mchezo wa kuigiza kama huu aufanyao?
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muhosni
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Wanasiasa wa aina yake hupenda kuonesha ulimwengu kwamba hawatishwi na matukio fulani ambayo sisi hudhani kwamba ni ya kutisha na hatari. Hapo anaonesha dunia kwamba alikuwa anatembea mjini tripoli tena bila ulinzi akakutana na mwandishi wa habari kwa bahati. Kwa hiyo ninyi mnaodhani kuna machafuko tripoli ni "waongo"
Askari Kanzu
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Nimeiona hii action kali ambayo nafikiri itakopiwa na Hollywood karibuni. Huyu jamaa midude anayovuta ni kiboko!!!
Aza
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na hapa ndipo muziki utapoanza,jana nilipokuwa nasikiliza yule mtu alipokuwa anaongea na BBC kwa simu uku akilia mbaya,jinsi fighter jets zinavolipua watu!!nikasema walahi USA and its allies ili lazima watalisemea,ila Gadafi mtoto ni noumer jamani!!!
"UNTIL LAST BULLET"
im just watching
Askari Kanzu
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UNSC to meet on Libya crackdown
UNITED NATIONS - 22nd February 2011
By APP
The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet behind closed doors later on Tuesday to discuss the current situation in Libya, according to diplomatic sources.
The meeting was requested by members of the Libyan UN Mission, who disowned Muammar Qadhafis regime and called for the 15-member body to take action to stop bloodshed in the country.
Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libyas deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, told reporters here he no longer takes order from the Libyan leader and called on the UN Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court to conduct an investigation into the current situation in the North African country.
Earlier on Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had an extensive discussion with Qadhafi and called on him to engage in broad-based dialogue to address legitimate concerns of the population, said a statement issued here by his spokesman, Martin Nesirky. Unrest shook Libya in recent days with unconfirmed press reports of mass human casualties.
The secretary-general called for an immediate end to the violence in Libya given the report that the Libyan government used war planes and helicopters against demonstrators, according to the statement from Bans spokesman.
The Secretary-General is outraged at press reports that the Libyan authorities have been firing at demonstrators from war planes and helicopters, the statement said. If such attacks against civilians were confirmed, it would constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and would be condemned by the Secretary-General in the strongest terms, it said.
Almost all Libyan diplomats at the United Nations backed deputy ambassador Dabbashis pleas to Gadhafi to end his 40-year rule and to the international community to intervene.
As diplomatic support for Gadhafi began to crumble, Dabbashi, the deputy UN ambassador, warned that if he doesnt leave, the Libyan people will get rid of him.
He also said he and the UN diplomats were not resigning because they served the people of Libya and not the regime. This is in fact a declaration of war against the Libyan people, he told reporters, surrounded by a dozen Libyan diplomats.
The regime of Gadhafi has already started the genocide against the Libyan people. Libyas UN Ambassador Mohamed Shalgham was not present at Dabbashis press conference.
Source:
UNITED NATIONS - 22nd February 2011
By APP
The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet behind closed doors later on Tuesday to discuss the current situation in Libya, according to diplomatic sources.
The meeting was requested by members of the Libyan UN Mission, who disowned Muammar Qadhafis regime and called for the 15-member body to take action to stop bloodshed in the country.
Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libyas deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, told reporters here he no longer takes order from the Libyan leader and called on the UN Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court to conduct an investigation into the current situation in the North African country.
Earlier on Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had an extensive discussion with Qadhafi and called on him to engage in broad-based dialogue to address legitimate concerns of the population, said a statement issued here by his spokesman, Martin Nesirky. Unrest shook Libya in recent days with unconfirmed press reports of mass human casualties.
The secretary-general called for an immediate end to the violence in Libya given the report that the Libyan government used war planes and helicopters against demonstrators, according to the statement from Bans spokesman.
The Secretary-General is outraged at press reports that the Libyan authorities have been firing at demonstrators from war planes and helicopters, the statement said. If such attacks against civilians were confirmed, it would constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and would be condemned by the Secretary-General in the strongest terms, it said.
Almost all Libyan diplomats at the United Nations backed deputy ambassador Dabbashis pleas to Gadhafi to end his 40-year rule and to the international community to intervene.
As diplomatic support for Gadhafi began to crumble, Dabbashi, the deputy UN ambassador, warned that if he doesnt leave, the Libyan people will get rid of him.
He also said he and the UN diplomats were not resigning because they served the people of Libya and not the regime. This is in fact a declaration of war against the Libyan people, he told reporters, surrounded by a dozen Libyan diplomats.
The regime of Gadhafi has already started the genocide against the Libyan people. Libyas UN Ambassador Mohamed Shalgham was not present at Dabbashis press conference.
Source:
Aza
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Dah, rafikie JK yupo matatani sasa... Hii move ikija Kusini mwa jangwa la Sahara Africa nchi tegemewa sana ni Uganda na Zimbabwe
euwiiiii!!!adi nahisi nachemka ndani aisee
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CNN now in Libya!
In eastern Libya, citizens buoyant and cautious as they await Gadhafi's move
CNN's Ben Wedeman is reporting from eastern Libya, part of which no longer appeared to be in Moammar Gadhafi's control.
February 21st, 2011 11:49 PM ET
Editor's note: CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from eastern Libya after crossing into that country from Egypt. He is the first Western television correspondent to enter and report from Libya during the current crisis.
"Your passports please," said the young man in civilian clothing toting an AK-47 at the Libyan border.
"For what?" responded our driver, Saleh, a burly, bearded man who had picked us up just moments before. "There is no government. What is the point?" He pulled away with a dismissive laugh.
On the Libyan side, there were no officials, no passport control, no customs.
I've seen this before. In Afghanistan after the route of the Taliban, in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Government authority suddenly evaporates. It's exhilarating on one level; its whiff of chaos disconcerting on another.
The scene on the Libyan side of the border was jarring. Men - and teenage boys - with clubs, pistols and machine guns were trying to establish a modicum of order.
Hundreds of Egyptian workers were trying to get out, their meager possessions - bags, blankets, odds and ends - piled high on top of minibuses.
Egyptian border officials told us that 15,000 people had crossed from Libya on Monday alone.
Full Story:
In eastern Libya, citizens buoyant and cautious as they await Gadhafi's move
CNN's Ben Wedeman is reporting from eastern Libya, part of which no longer appeared to be in Moammar Gadhafi's control.
February 21st, 2011 11:49 PM ET
Editor's note: CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from eastern Libya after crossing into that country from Egypt. He is the first Western television correspondent to enter and report from Libya during the current crisis.
"Your passports please," said the young man in civilian clothing toting an AK-47 at the Libyan border.
"For what?" responded our driver, Saleh, a burly, bearded man who had picked us up just moments before. "There is no government. What is the point?" He pulled away with a dismissive laugh.
On the Libyan side, there were no officials, no passport control, no customs.
I've seen this before. In Afghanistan after the route of the Taliban, in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Government authority suddenly evaporates. It's exhilarating on one level; its whiff of chaos disconcerting on another.
The scene on the Libyan side of the border was jarring. Men - and teenage boys - with clubs, pistols and machine guns were trying to establish a modicum of order.
Hundreds of Egyptian workers were trying to get out, their meager possessions - bags, blankets, odds and ends - piled high on top of minibuses.
Egyptian border officials told us that 15,000 people had crossed from Libya on Monday alone.
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Sifa za serikari za kidikteta ni pamoja na matumizi ya nguvu kupita kiasi kama ghadafi anachofanya. You cant open fire to civilians who made you their leader, and if so then you are not a leader but an enterpreneur. Utaongoza nini kama raia wote watakufa? Unreasonable use of force.
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Utawala wa Kanali Muammar Gaddafi uko chini ya shindikizo kali.
Kufatia maandamano makubwa katika mji mkuu wa Libya na pia kujiengua kwa baadhi ya mabalozi. Maafisa wa usalama walifytua risasi na mabomu ya machozi kwa waandamanaji katika mitaa ya Tripoli.
Mji wa pili kwa ukubwa, Benghazi, sasa unaonekana uko chini ya udhibiti wa wandamanaji, lakini mtoto wa Kanali Gaddafi, Saif al-islam, ameonya kuwa vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe huenda vikazuka, na kuhaidi kuwa utawala huo utapigana mpaka mwisho dhidi ya wachochezi.
Amekiri hata hivyo kuwa miji ya mashariki ya Benghazi na al-Badya imechukuliwa na wapinzani, kulingana na shirika moja la kutetea haki za binadamu IFHR. kiasi ya watu kati 300-400 wemeuwawa katika ghasia hizo.
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Kufatia maandamano makubwa katika mji mkuu wa Libya na pia kujiengua kwa baadhi ya mabalozi. Maafisa wa usalama walifytua risasi na mabomu ya machozi kwa waandamanaji katika mitaa ya Tripoli.
Mji wa pili kwa ukubwa, Benghazi, sasa unaonekana uko chini ya udhibiti wa wandamanaji, lakini mtoto wa Kanali Gaddafi, Saif al-islam, ameonya kuwa vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe huenda vikazuka, na kuhaidi kuwa utawala huo utapigana mpaka mwisho dhidi ya wachochezi.
Amekiri hata hivyo kuwa miji ya mashariki ya Benghazi na al-Badya imechukuliwa na wapinzani, kulingana na shirika moja la kutetea haki za binadamu IFHR. kiasi ya watu kati 300-400 wemeuwawa katika ghasia hizo.
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Huyu dikteta hana akili nzuri hata kidogo. Their days are numbered
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AFP
Fatwa issued on Kadhafi!
Top Sunni cleric says army should kill Kadhafi
Feb22,2011
Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa on Monday that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi should do so to rid Libya of him.
Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Kadhafi should do so, Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who is usually based in Qatar, told Al-Jazeera television.
He also told Libyan soldiers not to obey orders to strike at your own people, and urged Libyan ambassadors around the world to dissociate themselves from Kadhafis regime.
Famous in the Middle East for his at times controversial fatwas, or religious edicts, the octogenarian Qaradawi has celebrity status in the Arab world thanks to his religious broadcasts on Al-Jazeera.
AFP
Fatwa issued on Kadhafi!
Top Sunni cleric says army should kill Kadhafi
Feb22,2011
Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa on Monday that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi should do so to rid Libya of him.
Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Kadhafi should do so, Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who is usually based in Qatar, told Al-Jazeera television.
He also told Libyan soldiers not to obey orders to strike at your own people, and urged Libyan ambassadors around the world to dissociate themselves from Kadhafis regime.
Famous in the Middle East for his at times controversial fatwas, or religious edicts, the octogenarian Qaradawi has celebrity status in the Arab world thanks to his religious broadcasts on Al-Jazeera.
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