Libyan snipers fire on mourners

There has been much interesting news out of Bahrain about protestors being killed by riot police. This time it's Libya.

Libyan security forces killed at least 15 mourners and injured dozens of others at a funeral on Saturday, according to hospital officials.

The snipers targeting protesters against longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi began firing on crowds as they mourned 35 people who died the previous day in anti-government rallies.

New York-based Human Rights Watch previously reported that Libyan security forces have killed 84 people in a harsh crackdown on three days of protests. The latest reported fatalities from Saturday's funeral raise that death toll to about 100.

The protests calling for the removal of Gadhafi, Libya's leader for the past 42 years, have erupted largely in the cities of the country's impoverished east and have been brutally suppressed with a combination of armed militias and elite forces.

Internet service was also cut off in Libya in the early hours of the morning on Saturday, according to the U.S.-based Arbor Networks security company, which detected a total cessation of online traffic in the North African country just after 2 a.m. local time.

At least five cities of eastern Libya have seen protests and clashes in recent days. In one of them, Beyida, a hospital official said Friday that the bodies of at least 23 protesters slain over the past 48 hours were at his facility, which was treating about 500 wounded -- some in the parking lot for lack of beds.

Forces from the military's elite Khamis Brigade moved into Benghazi, Beyida and several other cities, residents said. They were accompanied by militias that seemed to include foreign mercenaries, they added. Several witnesses reported French-speaking fighters, believed to be Tunisians or sub-Saharan Africans, among militiamen wearing blue uniforms and yellow helmets.

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100 Dead in three days!? It seems that there is at least one state worse off then Bahrain!

All my best to the protesters in the Mid-East and Africa! May those who lost there lives rest in peace.

Peace & Respect,

AS

Terrible.
But as long as people keep standing up against their opressors, there's still hope.
The wave is catching on, every day more and more people in our so called "third-world" countries are waking up to the fact that OUR FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS.
And that the only thing that separates us from the reality that we deserve is WILL, COMPROMISE and SOLIDARITY. Those three are more powerful weapons than any Super-Killing-Helicopter of theirs....
Keep up the fight.

S&F