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On October 24, RT headlined "Siege of Bani Walid, Day 20: 'Militia committing genocide' - RT source," saying:
For three weeks, civilians have been killed "by toxic gas and heavy tank fire".(N)o resolution to the conflict (is) in sight." Indiscriminate shelling continues.
Footage RT believes is reliable shows dead bodies, "women and children with missing limbs and disfigured faces." A Libyan national in Egypt with relatives in Bani Walid told RT militias "are committing genocide."
The city is surrounded and besieged. Essential supplies are blocked. People are starving. Medicines aren't available to treat patients. Power is mostly off.
Militias "attack the city and are using heavy machinery to demolish houses. They are using internationally banned toxic gases against civilian people, and they bombard the population with tanks."They're ordered "to kill all protesters. The city is blocked from all sides. There is no medicine, food, (or) humanitarian aid. There is nothing inside the city."
"There is bloodshed in Bani Walid and nobody can hear the people inside the city" cry for help. Militia "guns come from the outside including from" France and Washington.
Major media reports are "lies and forgery. We plead for the humanitarian agencies of the world to help us save our families inside Bani Walid. The people need immediate help and an intervention from the outside."
The UN did nothing. Washington blocked Russia's attempt to help. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pathetically said "the international community is closely monitoring the situation."
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