2011年4月3日星期日

Turkey ship rescues injured Libya

last updated 3 April 2011 at 19: 03 ET Misrata evacuees sharing their stories with the BBC's Christian FraserA Turkish humanitarian ship with more than 250 wounded of the Libyan city of Misrata has arrived in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

Misrata, the only city in the West still controlled by the rebels, has for several weeks under siege by troops of Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

Doctors aboard the ship said that many people had very serious injuries.

Meanwhile, the Eastern oil city of Brega given ongoing fighting between rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces.

A BBC correspondent says that develops an uneasy stalemate.

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snipers everywhere "unquote Ibrahim al-Aradi Injured resident Misrata Government troops were reported to be holding the floor near the University, but are reluctant to go rebels because of the risk of NATO air attacks.

The poorly armed and disorganized rebels are unable or unwilling to push to Brega and ask for more help from the West.

Meanwhile, Libya's Deputy Foreign Minister, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, the Greek Prime Minister that Gaddafi wants the fighting Col to end.

"It seems that the Libyan authorities are looking for a solution," said Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas reporters in Athens.

Amputations

Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu, ordered the Ankara, a car ferry that had turned into a makeshift hospital in Misrata on Sunday after it had to spend four days to wait for permission to dock.

A wounded boy lies on a mattress on a Turkish humanitarian ship (3 April 2011)Twelve-year-old Muhammad was peppered with shrapnel when a rocket near him exploded

The ship, which was also medical supplies for doctors in Misrata, came under cover of 10 Turkish F-16 fighter jets and two Navy frigates, Turkish consular official Ali Akin told the news agency Reuters.

With heavily armed Turkish police special forces standing by, the injured were taken on board and put on mattresses in one of the car decks, above which saline Drips were hanged. Some were accompanied by their family members.

Mr Akin said that the ship had to leave early after a large crowd, including hundreds of Egyptians-pressed forward on the quayside in the hope to escape.

The BBC's Jon Leyne, who went aboard the Ankara, says that many of the patients have serious injuries, including some amputations.

A man lost part of his leg in an explosion as he took his wife in the hospital for treatment. A 13-year-old boy described how he was shot by a sniper. A 12 year old was peppered with shrapnel when a rocket near him exploded when he and his brother on their way to the market.

Muhammad Muftah, who had shrapnel wounds on his legs, back and neck, said Col Gaddafi troops "entire families" had been killed.

"I have a neighbor who his wife and his three children lost," he told the AFP news agency. "They did it just to terrorize people."

Our correspondent says that everyone had stories of the ever worsening conditions in Misrata. She told him that much of the city had no water or electricity and no one safe from shelling or sniper-fire.

Rebel supporters welcome the Turkish humanitarian ship in Benghazi (3 April 2011)If the ship arrived in Benghazi several hundred rebel supporters waved and cheered on the quayside

"It is very, very bad. In my Street, Gaddafi bombed us, "Ibrahim al-Aradi, who had wounds in his groin, told Reuters. "We have no water, no electricity. We have no medicine. There are snipers everywhere. "

Doctors say medical care on board conditions Misrata were inadequate, and that more than 200 people dead and hundreds more wounded. An unconfirmed report said this week from 160 may died.

At least one person was killed and several injured early on Sunday when government troops shelled a building in Misrata, a resident told Reuters.

If the ship in Benghazi arrived several hundred supporters waiting on the wharf chanted rebel: "the blood of the martyrs is shed for freedom."

The Ankara would take about 100 more wounded before sailing for the Turkish port of Cesme, where the victims would be treated in a well equipped, well-supplied, modern hospital, officials said.

Stalemate

East of Benghazi near Government forces continued to detain the University in Brega, trade rocket and artillery fire with the rebels.

The BBC's Orla Guerin reports on the stalemate near Brega develop

The rebel transitional period National Council has appealed for new NATO air strikes, as well as weapons and military training to be provided by foreign Governments.

They have acknowledged that rebel fighters firing into the air by lack of discipline on Friday, which left at least 13 people dead the NATO air attack on a rebel convoy could have provoked.

The rebel military commanders say they are trying to get a new professionalism his military campaign. Road blocks have been set up near the front line and only soldiers with at least one training through are allowed.

Iman Bugaighis, a spokeswoman for the rebel Council, told the BBC: "we have our troops reorganized. Now the army is in the front and then followed by our volunteers who are fighting with the army. "

Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa meanwhile called a quick end to the conflict, even if it meant offering Col. Gaddafi safe haven in another country.

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Misrata evacuees sharing their stories with the BBC's Christian Fraser

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