Libya: Benghazi Liberated, Army Unit Defects, Protesters Control City

UPDATE 2/21: Military planes attacking protesters in Tripoli. Live ammo used against protesters.
Government building in Tripoli burning.
Chavez denies Gaddafi fled to Venezuela.
Justice Minister resigns in protest.
Libyan Ambassador to India resigns in protest.

View video of events in Libya on Al-Jazzera

UPDATE 2/20: Tripoli riots, Gaddafi's home burns, Gaddafi flees to Venezuela?

UPDATE 2/20: Benghazi "Liberated". Army unit defects, forces Gaddafi's loyalists out. Protesters have run of city, second largest in Libya!

Libya's Arab League Ambassador resigns, joins revolution!

Libya: Security Forces Kill 84 Over Three Day

Muammar Gaddafi's security forces are firing on Libyan citizens and killing scores simply because they're demanding change and accountability. Libyan authorities should allow peaceful protesters to have their say.

(New York) - Government security forces have killed at least 84 people in three days of protests in several cities in Libya, Human Rights Watch said today, based on telephone interviews with local hospital staff and witnesses.

The Libyan authorities should immediately end attacks on peaceful protesters and protect them from assault by pro-government armed groups, Human Rights Watch said.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the eastern Libyan cities of Benghazi, Baida, Ajdabiya, Zawiya, and Derna on February 18, 2011, following violent attacks against peaceful protests the day before that killed 20 people in Benghazi, 23 in Baida, three in Ajdabiya, and three in Derna. Hospital sources told Human Rights Watch that security forces killed 35 people in Benghazi on February 18, almost all with live ammunition.
"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. "Libyan authorities should allow peaceful protesters to have their say."

Muammar Gaddafi has ruled Libya for 42 years.

 

Rensys reports that Libya has completely shut down their Internet as of midnight Saturday local time.

"Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn... and Libya is off the Internet. One Libyan route originated by Telecom Italia directly is still BGP-reachable, but inbound traceroutes appear to die in Palermo. A minority of our peers report some surviving paths through the peering connection between Level3 and Telecom Italia, but traceroutes into those prefixes fail, suggesting that the Libyan cutoff is complete. "

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/libya_shuts_down_internet.php

 

^^Holy fuck!

Shit just got real...

Saying that 200 have been killed and 900 injured on the BBC-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12517327

 

unbelievable man

 

Al Jazeera:

 

http://www.libyafeb17.com/

 

Members of a Libyan army unit said they had defected and "liberated" the country's second city from forces loyal to veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi after scores of protesters were killed in the bloodiest revolt now shaking the Arab world.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/114...=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1EYjaw4i8

 

Maybe soon every country in the world will realise that governmentS only wield their power over us BECAUSE WE LET THEM!!!! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

 

I really thought that we would have heard some words of wisdom from our very own middle east peace envoy by now...



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6244358.stm

 

Anyone else think this is not the real Gadaffi?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12532795

 

I think it looks like him, even down to the hasn't probably slept in 3 days look.

 

I think it looks like a double, which would explain also the brief appearance behind umbrellas and hats. He doesn't look enough like him for a full blow TV address.

OR... he's in the process of fleeing the country and this a decoy. Why would he tell the world he is still in Tripoli at a time when there is an increasing risk of foreign intervention and his arrest for war crimes.

 

Delusions, look at Mubarak and Ben Ali, they both gave speeches trying to show they were still in control and working to appease the protesters each about 24 hours before being forced to step down/to go into exile.

 

Considering the bizarre circumstances in which he made an appearance I am surprised not more people haven't questioned the authenticity of it..

 

Is it true that Croatian and Ukranian pilots are acting as Mercenaries? Shame on these countries! B......'s!

 

Power corrupts , absolute power corrupts absolutely !

I pray , that we all begin to finally see that tyrannical governments , greed , and ruling elite social classes , are not the answer to the worlds problems . That they are rather , harbingers to the worlds total destruction .

What evil lurks in the hearts of men . Until we learn to put the needs of others , before the needs of ourselves . That we are not individuals , that we are all connected as one human race . That what we do to others , we only do to ourselves .

The golden rule , was and is what it all about .