Aid ship in Misrata bombing raid (Four Migrants - a woman, a man and two children killed)

[Turborama]

Source: Belfast Telegraph

A UK-funded aid ship has been caught in Misrata harbour during a bombing raid by Muammar Gaddafi's forces that is believed to have killed four people.

The Red Star One docked at the besieged Libyan port to deliver 180 tons of humanitarian supplies and evacuate 1,000 stranded migrant workers and injured civilians.

The Libyan Red Crescent said the attack killed four migrants - a woman, a man and two children who were in a camp nearby.

The ship, operated by the International Organisation for Migration, had spent three nights outside Misrata waiting to enter because the sea approaches have been mined.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/aid-ship-in-misrata-bombing-raid-15151048.html

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Libyan govt forces shell port as aid ship docks

By BEN HUBBARD Associated Press
May 4, 2011, 11:29AM EST

MISRATA, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi's forces shelled the port area of this besieged rebel city on Wednesday, killing a woman, a man and two children as an international aid ship was docked, a medical official said.

The ferry, chartered to evacuate nearly 1,000 migrant workers, had spent three nights outside Misrata waiting to come in. Last week, Gadhafi's forces were caught mining the harbor entrance, and the Red Star One was guided into the port by tug boat Wednesday to avoid mines.

The four people killed in the attack had been in a nearby camp for stranded migrant workers, most of them African, said Mahdi Bensasi of the Libyan Red Crescent.

Saka Yossie, 27, a worker from Ghana, said he was in the camp when Grad rockets hit. "We were just sitting there when the bombs came down," he said. "They died right in front of us."

Much more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7549921.html

[tabatha]

1. The International Organisation for Migration

has been doing incredible work for Libya.

[joshcryer]

7. IOM has been doing incredible work around the world. They need more funding.

Migrations are one of the more horrific things a human must undergo due to tyrants.

[pinboy3niner]

2. K&R

[Turborama]

3. Another article and a video report on this from Libya...

Here: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/VIDEO-Libya-Gaddafis-Forces-Bomb-Port-Of-Misratah-Where-International-Aid-Ship-Was-Docked/Article/201105115985382?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15985382_VIDEO:_Libya:_Gaddafis_Forces_Bomb_Port_Of_Misratah,_Where_International_Aid_Ship_Was_Docked

[pinboy3niner]

4. “This is the real Qaddafi"

In Misurata, Libya, the coastal city besieged by Qaddafi forces, an international aid ship risked attack to enter the port and evacuate migrant workers who have been trying to leave Libya since the uprising began.

Colonel Qaddafi’s military has vowed to prevent ships from entering the port, and both tried mining the approach to the harbor and shelling the port with artillery and ground-to-ground rocket barrages.

At roughly the same time as the ship — a Panamanian-flagged ferry chartered by the International Organization for Migration — arrived, more rockets struck near the port, striking African migrant workers waiting to board.

The barrage killed a man, a woman and small boy and girl. The dead had no documents, and their names and nationalities were not immediately clear.

Dr. Hassan Malitan, who worked at the clinic in the Qasr Ahmed neighborhood, where their bodies awaited burial, vented his anger. The neighborhood has been struck repeatedly by rocket fire, and civilians have been repeatedly killed.

“This is the real Qaddafi,” he said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/world/africa/05nations.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[Iterate]

5. Video Report: Misrata: On board the under-fire aid ship

Channel 4 News
Misrata: On board the under-fire aid ship
Wednesday 04 May 2011

A ship carrying humanitarian aid to besieged Misrata comes under fire, prompting UK Government protests. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson witnesses the desperate efforts to rescue the wounded.

Troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi continued to shell the port of Misrata on Wednesday as a British-funded rescue ship docked to deliver 180 tons of relief supplies.

Passengers quickly boarded the Red Star One, which left Misrata carrying about 800 migrants, journalists and wounded Libyans. At least four people were reportedly killed in the latest attack on the port.

International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell condemned the Gaddafi regime for blocking aid to civilians.

more, with video report from the scene...

http://www.channel4.com/news/uk-demands-unfettered-humanitarian-access-to-misrata

[joshcryer]

6. K&R. This is a *war crime*! No ifs ands or buts!

[Turborama]

8. Yep, yet one more for Luis Moreno-Ocampo to add to the list.

Must be quite a big file by now: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4838060

:hi: