10 March 2011

ITF comment on attacks on Sidra, Libya

Commenting on the attacks by pro-government forces on the port city of Sidra, ITF general secretary David Cockroft said: “Gaddafi’s indiscriminate use of firepower, especially air strikes, threatens to lay the town waste and lead to an unknown number of civilian casualties. These are the barbarities of a dying regime. Can he not see that his time has passed and his energies should be directed to arranging the surrender of power?”

ENDS