“I recently spoke on BBC news but unfortunately I was on my way back from Gatwick airport to Sheffield on the train and my battery died.
I have spent the last weeks in Tripoli. There are a few things I would like to make clear:
Firstly: A MASSACRE AND A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY ARE CURRENTLY GOING ON IN LIBYA.
There have been deaths of at least 50-70 civilians arriving to different hospitals in Tripoli every night. I am a Doctor at Sheffield Northern General Hospital and have personally seen bodies with bullet wounds to the head, neck and chest.
Eyewitness reports from people I have spoken to personally are that Security forces are turning up in hospitals, threatening doctors and forcing them to treat pro-government supporters and neglect demonstrators, at gun-point.
There are incidents where blood bags have been ripped prior to transfusions so that injured supporters don’t receive treatment.
There are cases of sabotage. Corpses are being removed from hospital before being identified and not being returned.
There are reports that ambulances carrying the injured are being stopped and patients being executed.
Since Saturday night Tripoli has felt like a battlefield. The streets are mostly deserted and shops are closed during the day and there is continuous gunfire at night.
Secondly: THERE IS NO CIVIL WAR IN LIBYA.
Demonstrators are shouting slogans supporting Benghazi describing them as “cousins” and calling for the bloodshed to stop. Everyone I have spoken to from the east, west or south wants Libya to remain united. Nobody wants Gaddafi to remain in power.
Thirdly: THESE DEMONSTRATIONS ARE NOT BASED ON ANY KIND OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM OR ANYTHING RELIGIOUS.
They are purely calling for a tolerant, secular and democratic government that is free from corruption.
I would like to end this by saying how fantastic the RAF has been in evacuating us from Tripoli. Although I did have trouble contacting the British embassy in Tripoli and was unable to get through on both phone numbers provided, they were very efficient and helpful once I arrived at the airport.”
Doctor that arrived from Tripoli a few hours ago
LIBYAN AMBASSADOR TO JORDAN RESIGNS
Al Jazeera have reported that the Libyan Ambassador to Jordan has resigned from his post.
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