Ship brings rare glimpse
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BENGHAZI — The wounded men on the aid ship from the besieged city of Misrata, most of them torn apart by shrapnel and bullets, tell of the bloodiest front in the revolt against Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi.
They speak of a city under lockdown that has gone weeks without electricity or running water, where snipers have cleared the center and mortar rounds and rockets rain down at random on residents huddled inside their homes.
The more than 250 patients were brought Sunday to the rebel port of Benghazi on board a Turkish aid ship, which was to pick up another 100 or so wounded people from the eastern front before steaming on to the Turkish port of Cesme.
On board, a pale Mohammed Muftah, 34, describes how he was sitting at home on a quiet Friday morning when a barrage of mortar rounds fired by Kadhafi’s forces slammed into his residential neighbourhood..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110405com6.html
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