Italy, France, sending troops to advise the Libyan rebels - CNN International

Will there be a Libya military intervention for humanitarian reasons?New: Italy sends troops to advise the rebels in self-defense France and Britain are sending military advisers and the United Nations human rights Chief, says attacks in Misrata could constitute an international crimesUNICEF, said 20 children have been killed and more injured in many spokesman MisrataA rebelsays it is not the international fighters to join the rebels

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) - France and the Italy announced Wednesday that they will send military officers to advise the rebels to fight for the overthrow of the regime of leader Libyan Muammar Gaddafi.

Following a similar announcement by the British Government Tuesday, French Government spokesman Francois Baroin said that a "small number" of French troops sent to advise the National Council of transition from the rebels.

G?rard Longuet French Defence Minister exclude still send ground troops to fight alongside the rebels. "It's a real question that deserves an international debate", he said, adding, "We are working for the resolution of 1973," a reference to the United Nations resolution authorizing the action in Libya. "You cannot please everyone all the time," he said.

Italy will send military advisers to train rebels in self-defense tactics, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Maurizio Massari announced.

Britain said Tuesday that he sent a contingent of officers experienced in an advisory role to the stronghold of rebels in Benghazi. The team will work with the National Council of transition on how the opposition can improve military organisational structures, communications and logistics, said the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will also help the delivery of critical assistance.

"This deployment is fully under resolution 1973 both preparedness and its provision expressly excluding a force of foreign occupation on Libyan soil," said Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Efforts to strengthen the rebellion come as main opposition organization the Libya pleaded for international military intervention.

Libyans are "being killed each day by the forces of Gaddafi," rebel spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah said Tuesday CNN.

The High Commissioner of the United Nations in the human rights said Wednesday that some of the attacks of the Libyan Government on the siege of Misrata city may constitute international crimes.

A statement by the Office of Navi Pillay said it condemned "the reported repeated use of cluster munitions and weapons of heavy weapons by the forces of the Libyan Government in their attempt to regain control of the city under siege from Misrata and said that such attacks on densely populated areas of civilian casualties urbainesentra?nant substantial"could be regarded as international crimes. ?

"Pro-Government forces besieging the city, including their commanders and all other members of staff, must be aware that - with the international criminal court investigating possible crimes - their orders and their actions will be subject to scrutiny""," Pillay said in the statement. "International law, targeting deliberate medical facilities is a war crime, and targeting deliberate or reckless endangering civilians may also constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law or human rights international law".

UNICEF, the children, United Nations agency said Wednesday that 20 children were killed and "countless others wounded" in single Misrata.

Among the rebels, requests for assistance have increased every day.

Aid agencies are afraid to go to such areas as Misrata, that is targeted by Gaddafi troops daily, militant opposition that Mohamed Ibrahim said. "Some of them, they come." But most of them, they come close... they hear the bombing and everything, and they go back, "he says.

At least 27 people were killed and 142 were injured this week, according to a spokesman of the opposition who wanted to be identified only as "Mohammed" for security reasons.

Aid groups were trying to pull the desperate people of Misrata, which is hampered by the forces of Gaddafi on three sides.

The only way to escape is by port of the city - a witnesses in the region, said also was bombed by the forces of Gaddafi.

For those who have left behind, witnesses said, the disastrous situation continues to deteriorate. The city is still without water, electricity and telecommunications, Mohammed said Tuesday. "Bombing has moved out of the industrial areas to residential areas, and it is still in progress."

Rebel spokesman Abdulmolah said that the National Council of transition the opposition does not oppose a humanitarian mission on the ground.

"Something must be done so that we can stop the bloodshed of our people," he said.

But "we don't want any military presence foreign or any veterans international with our rebels," he added.

NATO is leading an international military operation which includes targeting military resources of Gaddafi with airstrikes.

NATO said that the operation has destroyed seven bunkers of munitions in the area of Tripoli and equipment in other parts of the country this week.

NATO attacked three regime battle tanks and an artillery piece mounted on vehicle in and around Misrata Tuesday, spokesman for the British Army major-General John Lorimer said Wednesday.

Abdulmolah said the NATO strikes may also prevent more destruction in eastern Libya, particularly near Benghazi.

"We have received reports that Gaddafi forces were mobilizing their troops and their systems of missile mobile/rockets of Brega to Ajdabiya bomb Benghazi." They were the strikes of NATO stopped by (Tuesday), "he says.

But he said that the opposition wants weapons and "technical assistance", "because we are faced with a ruthless tyrant who wants to kill his own people, simply because they asked for freedom and liberty." CNN Saad Abedine, Andreena Narayan, Reza Sayah, Yousuf Basil and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report.

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France intensify the Libyan air strikes: Sarkozy

President Nicolas Sarkozy said that France will intensify its air strikes in Libya, at the request of the opposition forces.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the France also said Wednesday that it already has the field liaison officers in the rebel-held city of Benghazi. Officers are trying to help the rebels organize and support the NATO air campaign which has failed to implement military rout of Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Britain and the Italy are also send officers.

A presidential aid said Sarkozy, after having met a leader of the opposition Libyan Wednesday, said: "We will intensify the strikes". The aid was not allowed to be publicly named the presidential policy.

Hussien, a rebel fighter, prepares a belt of ammunition for his heavy machine gun on the front along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah line on Tuesday. AMR Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters.

Fighting in Libya, erupted two months ago, when protests against four decades of Gaddafi power transformed into an armed uprising.

Rebels control now the largest part of the East, while Gaddafi holds most of the West. However, there are areas of the rebels in the West of the Libya, particularly the Nafusa mountainous region which is home to the Libya Berber minority.

Since the end of week, Nafusa region city of Yifran, with a population of about 25,000 people, was attacked daily with Grad rockets, anti-aircraft guns and tank shells, said a veteran rebel, who would give only his first nameBelgassem, for fear of reprisals.

The bombing sent thousands fleeing in Tunisia nearby. Four rounds of mortar by the fighting, landed on the territory Tunisian Monday, Tunisian officials said late Tuesday.

International aid officials said that more than 10,000 people in the region of Mount Nafusa fled to Tunisia these days, avoiding the official boundaries inhabited by of Gaddafi's loyalists. Refugees remain in camps near the towns of Tunisian border Dehiba and Remada, or are hosted by Tunisian families.

Communities like Yifran, Qalaa, Nalut, and others close to the Tunisian borders are inhibited by Berbers who have suffered under the repressive policies of Gaddafi. Gaddafi has dubbed Berbers "product of colonialism" created by the West to divide the Libya. In the 1970s, members of pan-Berber associations were arrested and Berber activities have been banned.

In another outpost of rebels in the West of the Libya, the city under siege from Misrata, new clashes erupted Wednesday.

Exchanges of fire were heard Wednesday between troops Libyan and armed residents in the city centre. NATO planes flew above, but have not carried out air strikes.

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Form France blocks carrying migrants - Xinhua

(BEIJING, April 19 Xinhuanet.com) - A train carrying Tunisian migrants from the Italy was interrupted at the French border in an escalation of the conflict on the fate of migrants North Africa, fleeing political unrest.

While many European countries support a regime change in the Arab world, it appears that migrants resulting, fleeing the turmoil in North Africa are not welcome there.

France prevents the trains carrying migrants across the country.

The Italian Interior Minister, explains the France position is incomprehensible and unjustified.

Roberto Maroni, Italian Interior Minister, said: "we are in compliance with the European Agreement on the freedom of movement." We have given the travel and subsistence, documents that are recognized by the European Commission. Freedom of movement is therefore possible for all those who have a residence permit and want to do the France. ?

But the France do not.

It is said that he will honor permits only if migrants prove they can financially support themselves.

Lydia Schenardi, Secretary of the National Front, said: "we understand what Italy." But Italy gives European Visa to get rid of migrants in their own country. Migrants will come to the France and other European countries. It is an uncontrolled increase in immigration, and more importantly, they are unemployed workers.

It is a paradox.

These countries any return what they call democracy movements in the Arab world, to the extent of the use of military force to protect the lives of civilians.

But when there are people fleeing the turmoil, they have nowhere to go.

France and the Germany have agreed to implement the joint patrols to the coast of Tunisia to deter potential migrants.

(Source: cntv .cn)

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France to become the first European country to Ban Burqa - ABC News

A controversial burqa ban adopted by the French Parliament last year comes into effect Monday, making the traditionally secular country the first in the European Union to ban the wearing of the Islamic head covering feet.

In spite of critics of the ban, who say that it is anti-Islamic, President Nicolas Sarkozy said legislators French last year that the burqa is not a religious symbol.

"It is a sign of subservience," he said. "It will be not welcome in the French Republic."

Jacques Myard, a Conservative MP who takes in charge the ban, called the burqa a "shock" to French culture. "The face is a dignity of a person." "The face is your Passport," he said. Therefore when you refuse me to see you, I am a victim.

Only a minority of Muslim women in France choose to wear the burqa and a single told ABC News, she plans to continue to wear.

"On Monday morning, I will make shopping, to the post office and if necessary, the City Hall", said Kenza Drider, a mother of four who has become the face veiled women opposing the new law. "I under no circumstance will stop port my veil.".

Under the new Act, women caught wearing a burqa in public will face a warning, then a $200 fine.

The consequences are very substantial for a man if he forced a woman to wear a burqa - fined $43,000.

The Drider and other Muslim women in France, how they choose cover their faces is a personal and religious choice.

A French Muslim woman named Farida, who gave no family name, said that it chooses not to wear a headscarf, but this does not mean that it supports the ban.

"I believe that we must respect the opinions of people who want to cover their faces because of religious beliefs," she said. "It's part of being a secular society."

And for a handful of women in France, continuing to cover a risk that they are willing to take.

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