Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi fought an increasingly bloody battle to hang on to power Monday as government officials at home and abroad resigned, air force pilots defected and anti-government protests struck the capital after days of violence in the east. A group of army officers issued a statement Monday urging fellow soldiers to “join the people” and help remove the Libyan leader. Many reporters dosent know where the Gadhafi is but certainly this kind a issues needs to be resolved quickly for everyones benefits in Libya.
Many media reported that protesters attacked police stations in Tripoli and the offices of the state broadcaster and set government buildings ablaze. One political activist said warplanes had bombed the city. Al-Jazeera television quoted medical sources as saying 61 people had been killed in the latest protests in Tripoli and 10 Egyptians were shot to death in the city of Tobruk, near the eastern border, an Egyptian doctor heading to Libya told AFP, citing a witness.
Libyan people made decision and they dont look like they will give up on the revolution way and they will not go back regarding to many protesters and BBC has already found many people that against Gaddfi and take their opinions on live shows. In the strongest U.S. reaction to the unrest yet, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it was “time to stop this unacceptable bloodshed” in Libya. In signs of disagreement inside Libya’s ruling elite, the justice minister resigned in protest at the “excessive use of violence” against protesters.
The deputy chief of Libya’s mission to the U.N. and other staff called on the Libyan Army to help overthrow “the tyrant Moammar Gadhafi” and urged other Libyan embassies to follow suit.
Deputy permanent representative Ibrahim Dabbashi accused Gadhafi of committing genocide against his own people in the current crisis. In an interview with BBC World, Dabbashi said: “I think it is the end of Colonel Gadhafi, it is a matter of days, whether he steps down or the Libyan people will get rid of him anyway.” Other Libyan officials said they did not know the whereabouts of permanent representative Abdel-Rahman Shalgham, but believed he was not in New York.
In Washington, Libya’s ambassador to the United States Ali Ojli denounced “the repression of the protesters” in an interview with Al-Jazeera. In India, Libya’s ambassador said he was resigning in protest at the violent crackdown while three diplomats in Sweden and a diplomat in China also quit their posts. Two Libyan fighter jets landed in Malta, their pilots defecting after they had been ordered to bomb protesters, Maltese government officials said.
Gadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam said that air raids Monday targeted ammunition depots and not populated areas in Tripoli and Benghanzi. Same he has blamed forigne media for the causes of problems and some others also he has stated they will fight for the power.
