Turkey Sails In To Evacuate Wounded Libyans From Misurata, Revolutionaries In Benghazi Welcome Them

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Run time: 02:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BiNWJcz-Tg   Posted on YouTube: April 03, 2011 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 314   Posted on DU: April 04, 2011 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 960

 

Shifting away from the focus on Libya's air war, Turkey has concentrated on the humanitarian needs of the current conflict.

A Turkish ferry, the Ankara, has rescued 250 severely injured people from Misurata.

And there are hundreds of others still waiting to escape the violence there, as Gaddafi forces continue to attack the city that is a key rebel stronghold.

Al Jazeera English's Laurence Lee reports from Benghazi.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12934763">BBC map for context:

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1. Kick.

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2. Injured bothers Ali Bachir Chikh 15 & Mohammed Bachir Chikh 12 rest inside the Turkish ship (Photo)

Injured bothers Ali Bachir Chikh (R), 15, and Mohammed Bachir Chikh, 12, rest inside the Turkish ship
carrying 250 wounded people from the besieged Libyan city of Misurata, at a port in Benghazi yesterday.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/libya-live-blog-april-4

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3. K&R Great post

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4. **** Everybody has a horrific tale to share on this ambulance ship ****

Source: Toronto Star

DiManno: Everybody has a horrific tale to share on this ambulance ship


Published 1 hour 7 minutes ago


BENGHAZI, LIBYA—The injuries are horrendous: A hole in the centre of a face where the nose had been, limbs blown off, shredded torsos held together with staples and bandages, a child’s cheeks blackened and pockmarked by shrapnel.

Yet these poor people — the medically evacuated casualties of Misurata — are the less critical cases, the limping and wheelchair-pushed and stretcher-borne wounded extracted by sea from a city being hammered into submission by Moammar Gadhafi’s merciless forces.

Those worse off, immobile or tethered to critical care machines or simply diagnosed as doomed, were left behind, a thousand more who’d pressed forward at the dock, pleading, who could only watch salvation sail away.

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This is the carnage of Gadhafi’s war on his own citizens, the vengeance inflicted on a city that dared to claim itself liberated from a madman’s iron fist.

“Soldiers, civilians, it’s all the same to him,’’ says Mustafa Abdellah, who lost his lower left leg in a shelling attack seven days earlier. “Gadhafi is an animal. Who else would do this to his own people?

“In Misurata, all people can do is pray for this hell to end. I thank God to have been brought away but so many remain trapped. Please, please help them. Gadhafi is destroying the whole city.’’

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/968460--dimanno-everybody-has-a-horrific-tale-to-share-on-this-ambulance-ship

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