Portland Rallys with Libya

The United Nations said today that it is too dangerous in Libya’s capitol, Tripoli, to assess the need for humanitarian aid or get an accurate count of the dead and wounded.

They estimate that in Tripoli alone, as many as two-thousand people have been killed since the uprising began.

The long-time dictator Moamar Qaddafi denied any such deaths in an interview with British journalists today, insisting that the people of Libya love him and would die to defend him.

So far, more than one-hundred-thousand people have fled the violence in Libya, mostly to neighboring Egypt and Tunisia.

Isobel Charle attended a rally on Saturday in support of the Libyan uprising in Portland’s Pioneer Square.