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270 Indians evacuated from Libya

India Blooms News Service | | 09 Aug 2014, 10:10 pm
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IBNS): India on Saturday said 270 nations were evacuated from conflict-hit Libya's Benghazi city.

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted: "By ship this time! Ship with 271 (270 Indians & 1 Maltese) passengers leaves Benghazi (Libya) for Malta."

The United Nations human rights office on Friday expressed deep concern over the situation in Libya, where a conflict between multiple armed groups has been raging primarily in Benghazi and Tripoli.

“Living conditions for civilians in both cities had steadily deteriorated, with food, fuel and electricity in diminishing supply,” Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told journalists in Geneva on Friday.

She said frequent indiscriminate shelling of heavily populated areas in both cities by the rival sides has been reported, leading to the death or injury of civilians, including children. Meanwhile, health facilities have been severely affected by the violence and common criminality was on the rise.

“Armed groups from both sides had taken prisoners and OHCHR was receiving initial reports of torture that it was investigating. In addition, attacks against media professionals continued,”  Shamdasani said.

OHCHR reminded all parties involved in the hostilities that under international law indiscriminate attacks were are crimes, as are attacks on civilians or civilian objects such as airports – unless such facilities are being used for military purposes. Torture is also a war crime.

A newly elected Libyan parliament met for the first time this week, in hopes that the political leaders would bring peace to the North African nation, which has been embroiled in some of the worst fighting since the 2011 uprising that ousted former leader Muammar al-Qadhafi.

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