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Gaddafi loyalists stranded as battle for Sirte rages
Dozens of families who remain fiercely loyal to Col Muammer Gaddafi's regime are trapped inthe Libyan dese rt as fighting intensifies in the loyalist str onghold of Sirte.
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By Ruth Sherlock in Sirte
3:09 PM BST 02 O ct 2011
Families continue to st ream out of the city, as interim government
forces f ought intense battles f or control o f the city centre. But many
men and women were too t errif ied, angry and mist rust f ul of the
f ighters t hat now control the majority of Libya, to f lee to the next
town.
Crammed 30 people to a ro om, the f amilies live in an abandoned
schoo l building with scant supplies. Others have been taken in by
loyalist homes dot ted in the scrubland surrounding Sirte.
"The rebels are worse than rats. Nato is t he same as Osama bin
Laden," said a resident who did not wish to be named. "We have ten
families staying with us now, there is little f ood, not enough clean
water and no gas. Bef ore we lived wealthy lives, I had two homes, now
we live worse than animals."
Backed by Nato war planes, rebel fo rces batt ling over the last eight
months said they were fighting to oust a brutal dictator that was
loathed by the Libyan population and that suppressed t he basic
human rights and f reedoms of civilians. But f amilies f leeing Col
Gaddafi's home town of Sirte said they longed for Libya to be "just as
it was".
"We lived in democracy under Muammer Gaddafi, he was not a dictator.
I lived in freedo m, Libyan women had full human rights . It isn't t hat we
need Muammer Gaddaf i again, but we want t o live just as we didbefo re," said Susan Farjan.
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makeup, Chanel perfume, diamond earrings and gold necklace to ld of
a better life in times past. Sitting on the hard f loor of the school
classroo m that had become her home Susan reminisced: "Lif e was
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My father loves him so much, the blood is green in his veins," she said
as tears welled in her eyes.
Women and children crowding round interrupted her speech with loud
and passionate cries of the dictum that had rung out at orchest rated
pro- Gaddaf i rallies in Tripoli: 'God, Muammer, Libya, and that's all!"
The desert surroundings of Sirte have become a patchwork of
loyalties.
Interim f ighters patro lled 'liberated areas' celebrating the new fo und
f reedom of the count ry. But many f amilies in t he area said Nato
bombing and more recently, the attacks by interim government f orces
had turned Sirte into a 'living hell' "I saw missiles and bombs and rebel
f ighters. There were missiles everywhere; that's why we came here,"
said Mabrouka Farjan, 80. "Lif e was goo d under Gaddaf i, we were
never af raid." "The insurance building in the city has collapsed, there
are many dead bodies in there, and you can smell the s tench on t he
st reets," said Mohammed Farjan, 27, speaking of the s ituation inside
the city.
Caught in t he cross f ire as they were fleeing, two children were killed,
and a mother seriously injured on Saturday when their car was hit by a
rocket propelled grenade. Others recounted stories of their homes hit
by rockets.
"They are killing our children. Why are they do ing this? For what? Life
was good before!" shouted anot her elderly lady.
The rebel army has said it would leave unarmed loyalists to their own
devices, but some families reported harassment. "Yesterday men camewith anti-aircraft guns, they surrounded our home, and tried to s teal
our cars.
We hit back, and eventually they left," said Ibrahim, who would not give
his last name f or f ear of recriminations.
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f raught with tens ion and insults. "They const antly come and demand
our papers, and try to search all our possession f or hours," said an
elderly man.
"Everyone loves Gaddaf i, and we love him because we love Libya. Now
the rebels have taken over. We might have to accept that, but
Muammer will always be in our hearts ," said the mother of one f amily.
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