Libya protests spread and intensify
Diplomats resign and air force officers defect as Gaddafi government resorts to shooting and bombing to crush uprising. Ibrahim Dabbashi, the deputy ambassador, said that if Gaddafi did not relinquish power, “the Libyan people get rid of him”. Talking to Al Jazeera, Libya’s deputy ambassador to the UN Ibrahim Dabbashi condemns Gaddafi’s regime Hamad bin Jassim said the international community must act now. The condemnation is not enough … I think the five permanent members and others, they should take the responsibility and do something to help the civillian people in Libya, because what is happening is not acceptable in any way.” Earlier in on Monday, Ahmed Elgazir, a human-rights researcher at the Libyan News Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, told Al Jazeera that security forces were “massacring” protesters in Tripoli. “Gaddafi’s guards started shooting people in the second day … when they killed two people, we had more than 5,000 at their funeral, and when they killed 15 people the next day, we had more than 50,000 the following day,” he said, adding “the more Gaddafi kills people, the more people go into the streets.” Pilots defect In another development on Monday, two Libyan air force jets landed in Malta and their pilots asked for political asylum, according to a military source.
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