Libyan Protest Toll Nears 100
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 20th, 2011 5:45 am by HL
Libyan Protest Toll Nears 100
The death toll in protests against the four-decade-plus rule of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya has neared 100 people amid warnings from government media that anyone opposing the regime risked “suicide.” —JCL The Guardian: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is confronting the most serious challenge to his 42-year rule as leader of Libya by unleashing his army on unarmed protesters. Unlike the rulers of neighbouring Egypt, Gaddafi has refused to countenance the politics of disobedience, despite growing international condemnation, and the death toll of demonstrators nearing 100. The pro-government Al-Zahf al-Akhdar newspaper warned that the government would “violently and thunderously respond” to the protests, and said those opposing the regime risked “suicide”. Read more
The death toll in protests against the four-decade-plus rule of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya has neared 100 people amid warnings from government media that anyone opposing the regime risked “suicide.” —JCL
The Guardian:
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is confronting the most serious challenge to his 42-year rule as leader of Libya by unleashing his army on unarmed protesters.
Unlike the rulers of neighbouring Egypt, Gaddafi has refused to countenance the politics of disobedience, despite growing international condemnation, and the death toll of demonstrators nearing 100.
The pro-government Al-Zahf al-Akhdar newspaper warned that the government would “violently and thunderously respond” to the protests, and said those opposing the regime risked “suicide”.
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