Tuesday, February 22, 2011

After the air raids, Gaddafi's death squads keep blood on Tripoli's streets

This is a must read:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/22/air-raids-gaddafi-tripoli
"Men in brand new Mitsubishi cars without licence plates are shooting at groups of people, three or four, wherever they see them gathering outside," said a resident of the Tripoli neighbourhood of Fashloum, a working class area where protesters had gathered in recent nights. "These are Gaddafi's death squads."

Another resident described traces of gunfire that had left pockmarks on the walls of buildings in Fashloum. There were makeshift barricades set up by locals to stop 4x4 vehicles carrying mercenaries and Gaddafi's elite guard from entering residential streets and firing indiscriminately.

A relative of one Tripoli resident told the Guardian: "He went out to get water and bread and saw bodies in the street. There are corpses in the street and Gaddafi's forces are not letting people pick them up. They are shooting people who gather outside, they are shooting the people who try to gather up the corpses."

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