Bombs destroying an entire people to take down Gaddafi says Bishop of Tripoli

(May 11, 2011) The Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli said that bombs are destroying civilians just to take hold of Libyan leader Gaddafi. Bishop Giovanni Martinelli said "They are dropping bombs as if they were jewels. There is no criteria, there is only the will to end it". The bishop confirmed the wounding of four children during the NATO bombing during the night between Monday and Tuesday on Tripoli, the Libyan capital. "The bombs hit civilian buildings and some of them were dropped near a hospital," he added. In the night between May 12th and 13th, NATO has taken over the bombing of the Libyan capital, to push Gaddafi and force him to surrender. The raid hits the headquarters of state television and official news agency, but the government says the High Commission for Children was also badly damaged.
According to Bishop Martinelli the bombs are provoking increasing tension among the population. He said "On the streets, you see mothers and little children, left to themselves." The prelate is highly critical of those, who define the war on Libya as a humanitarian effort to protect the people and carried out with the United Nations approval. "The United Nations was created to defend the weak, to bring peace, not war," he said. For the prelate, Italy has a grave responsibility in the Libyan crisis and the bombs dropped against Tripoli is a serious sign of aggression against this people.