大象传媒

What does Misrata need now?

| Monday, 4 April 2011 | 18:00 - 20:05 GMT

@LibyaInMe: Revolutionaries in Misrata are saying that #Gaddafi forces are burning the bodies of of their own dead mercs & men...

@ChangeInLibya: Thousands demonstrating in Misrata today and asking "What is the world going to do about Gaddafi's use of cluster munitions" #libya

These are just two areas that tweeters that are against Col. Gaddafi want to talk about as the UN meets in New York to discuss Misrata.

The BBC's Caroline Hawley has this report about Misrata, some of the images are disturbing. She calls it 'a city of fear'. 17 people were reportedly killed there on Sunday.

Misrata is one of the hardest hit places according to aid workers. You may have read that the UK plans to evacuate 5000 migrants out of Misrata today. The head of UN humanitarian relief, Baroness Amos, who is visiting Libya says thousands are in desperate need of medical attention, sanitation, clean water and electricity. So what should the world do? We'll speak to people there and hear their stories. Here's CJ Chivers account in the New York Times of life there.

The BBC's Jonathan Marcus asks whether Misrata is a new phase of the conflict? If you think it is, what does it signify for the rest of Libya?

Your comments

  1. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:56
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    @大象传媒_WHYS tinuke needs to shut up. if people want change dy shld ve voted goodluck out

  2. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:54
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    @大象传媒_WHYS dis tinuke is confused abt wat she is sayin. sayin its free, talkin of change,wantin buhari, sayin he didnt campaign. nonsense

  3. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:55
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    @大象传媒_WHYS As a presiding officer I was order to surrender my ellection bag to a community leader or be kill,

  4. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:44
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    @大象传媒_WHYS but wat is Buhari sayin 2 his supporters? shouldnt he come out 2 say somethg being a pro "one Nigeria" person as he claims?

  5. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:40
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    @大象传媒_WHYS In the Presidential election, people voted for personalty not the party.

  6. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:36
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    @大象传媒_WHYS Very peaceful and transparent . The hope and aspirations of almost every Nigerian has been rekindled . Thanks to Jega and GEJ .

  7. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:36
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    @大象传媒_WHYS The process was peaceful, free and fair. The best election I have witnessed since I started voting in 1999.

  8. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:35
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    @大象传媒_WHYS reasonably fair, more dan b4. its more about "born 2 rule" philosophy dat drives d north. wld still say d process was successful

  9. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:35
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    @大象传媒_WHYS Peaceful yes but not credible! Incumbents never lose elections in Africa. How results be higher than voter turnout! Oh poor Africa

  10. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:35
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    @大象传媒_WHYS Definitely the most reasonably successful election in Nigeria just after June 12, 1993.

  11. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:33
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    @大象传媒_WHYS I don't think so in term of turn out. Out of 6million that registered, only 2million vote in Lagos. Awful.

  12. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:33
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    @大象传媒_WHYS I think it was fair, d violence doesnt speak of unfairness but anger 2wards their own pple 4 "supposedly" failing them

  13. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:31
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    @大象传媒_WHYS Notwithstanding, the sundry ethnicity ,the divide between the north and the south ,Nigerian can still live with communal harmony

  14. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:22
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    @大象传媒_WHYS Cluster ammunition , if used by Gaudaffi at all, will only worsen the humanitarian situation.

  15. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:18
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    @大象传媒_WHYS Well done the uk for helping the trapped civilians!