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| Warshefana slaughter continues |
| 2014-09-11 |
| [Libya Herald] The corpse count in the Washefana area continues to rise as missiles rain down into it. Forty three people are reported to have been killed in shelling since Sunday and 67 injured, of whom 27 are said to be at death's door. The dead are said be mostly civilians and to include 12 children and four women. Yesterday, at least 13 people were reported killed, among them a family of five plus three neighbours when a shell hit their homes in Siyad. The previous day at least 12 were reported killed. The area is surrounded by Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... forces which yesterday claimed that it was making progress on several front to capture it. They were moving kilometre by kilometre combing houses and farms, a Libya Dawn front man said. Such shelling, however, may constitute war crimes according to the UN. Much of it, a Warshefana official told the Libya Herald, has been coming from Zawian forces. He claimed that Zawian militia commander Shaaban Hadia, who heads Libyan Revolutionaries Operation Room and who is also known as Abu Obeida Al-Zawi, was responsible for most of it. The source also said that Zahra hospital, the main medical facility in the area, was suffering from a shortage of medicines and medical supplies because of a blockade by Libya Shield ...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs... Western forces. Al-Zawi shot to prominence when he was jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in Egypt in January on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities. It resulted in the kidnapping of five Egyptian diplomats in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... who were released only after he was freed. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... this afternoon the home of Mohammed Tantosh of the Warshifana Shoura Council was destroyed in a missile attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |