<p>Violent clashes in Benghazi have so far left six dead, the Al-Youm and Al-Manara sites reported on what was the third straight day of protests against the long-time Libyan leader.<br /><br />Separately, lawyers demonstrated in front of a courthouse in Benghazi — Libya’s second city after Tripoli — to demand a constitution for the country.<br /><br />The websites, monitored in Nicosia, said at least four people were killed in the city of Al-Baida, 200 km from Benghazi, on Wednesday. Sites monitored in Cyprus and a Libyan human rights group based abroad reported earlier that the anti-Gaddafi protests in Al-Baida had cost as many as 13 lives.<br /><br />“Internal security forces and militias of the Revolutionary Committees used live ammunition to disperse a peaceful demonstration by the youth of Al-Baida,” leaving “at least four dead and several injured,” according to Libya Watch.<br /><br />Geneva-based Human Rights Solidarity, citing witnesses, said rooftop snipers in Al-Baida — a city of 210,000 inhabitants — had killed 13 protesters and wounded dozens of others.<br /><br />But the Quryna newspaper, close to Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam, cited official sources and put the death toll at two. It traced the unrest to a police shutdown of local shops that soon escalated.<br /><br />The interior ministry fired the security head of Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar province in the aftermath of the violence, in which protesters torched “several police cars and citizens,” the paper said on its website.<br /><br />Videos on the Internet showed dozens of young Libyans gathered Wednesday night in Al-Baida chanting, “The people want to bring down the regime,” and a building which had been set on fire.<br /><br />In Tripoli, a pro-regime rally was organised in Green Square, near the capital’s water front, with students being bused in to take part.<br /><br />Traffic was lighter than usual and the security presence on the main roads slightly boosted, after text messages went out on Libya’s mobile telephone network on Wednesday warning against street protests.<br /><br />The messages, circulated by “the youth of Libya,” warned against crossing “four red lines: Gaddafi, territorial integrity, Islam and internal security.”<br /></p>
<p>Violent clashes in Benghazi have so far left six dead, the Al-Youm and Al-Manara sites reported on what was the third straight day of protests against the long-time Libyan leader.<br /><br />Separately, lawyers demonstrated in front of a courthouse in Benghazi — Libya’s second city after Tripoli — to demand a constitution for the country.<br /><br />The websites, monitored in Nicosia, said at least four people were killed in the city of Al-Baida, 200 km from Benghazi, on Wednesday. Sites monitored in Cyprus and a Libyan human rights group based abroad reported earlier that the anti-Gaddafi protests in Al-Baida had cost as many as 13 lives.<br /><br />“Internal security forces and militias of the Revolutionary Committees used live ammunition to disperse a peaceful demonstration by the youth of Al-Baida,” leaving “at least four dead and several injured,” according to Libya Watch.<br /><br />Geneva-based Human Rights Solidarity, citing witnesses, said rooftop snipers in Al-Baida — a city of 210,000 inhabitants — had killed 13 protesters and wounded dozens of others.<br /><br />But the Quryna newspaper, close to Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam, cited official sources and put the death toll at two. It traced the unrest to a police shutdown of local shops that soon escalated.<br /><br />The interior ministry fired the security head of Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar province in the aftermath of the violence, in which protesters torched “several police cars and citizens,” the paper said on its website.<br /><br />Videos on the Internet showed dozens of young Libyans gathered Wednesday night in Al-Baida chanting, “The people want to bring down the regime,” and a building which had been set on fire.<br /><br />In Tripoli, a pro-regime rally was organised in Green Square, near the capital’s water front, with students being bused in to take part.<br /><br />Traffic was lighter than usual and the security presence on the main roads slightly boosted, after text messages went out on Libya’s mobile telephone network on Wednesday warning against street protests.<br /><br />The messages, circulated by “the youth of Libya,” warned against crossing “four red lines: Gaddafi, territorial integrity, Islam and internal security.”<br /></p>