Sunday, April 17, 2011

LIBYA - Feature: In Misrata, the fighting is taking place amid a ruined city

Misrata reached April 12, Matthieu Mabin and Alexandra Fox, FRANCE 24 correspondents, are alongside the rebellion Libyan Misrata when she comes back to a neighborhood to the forces of Colonel Gaddafi.

Beach shoes and sweatpants, five weeks ago, insurgents Misrata were students, dentists and masons. Today they have become combatants. This is the case of Muhammad, who fights in his neighborhood, close to his own house: "I stay in my city to defend it. If someone comes to you and tries to kill you, what do you do? You defend yourself! We only defend themselves by fighting .... "

Within days, the fighting turned into a battlefield Misrata."Look at the streets of Tripoli on 6 or 7 miles, everything is destroyed, nothing remains," said Muhamad.

The battles are played out street by street, house by house, and leave behind a city totally devastated.