Gaddafi’s son support Muammar rule in Lybia

Tripoli : Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Sayf al-Islam, has warned that civil war could hit the country if the anti-government protests succeeded.

In a television address despite criticising the protesters, the Lybian’s dictator son promised of political reforms and held that police and army had made “mistakes.”

He also blamed the foreign media of inflating the death toll saying the toll was far lower than reported.

Sayf al-Islam said the opposition groups and “outsiders” were trying to split Libya and if they achieved the country would head for nowhere and the foreign investment would stop.

Libya is country of about 6.5 million people is led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi since 1969.

It is now facing an unprecedented chaos amids media reports of over 300 dead after the government forces opened fired on mourners on Sunday.

Sayf Gaddafi blamed the foreign media for fomenting violence by exaggerating figure on toll in Libya.

Refuting reports of fleeing of Gaddafi, Sayf al-Islam said his father remained in Libya “leading the battle”.

Eyewitnesses said Tripoli was quiet on Monday, although sporadic gunfire shots were heard, a day commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to the ruler pummelled demonstrators with guns and other weapons including knives.

Unconfirmed reports that African mercenaries were being deployed against protesters in Libya.

Amids broadcast of Sayf Gaddafi, hundreds of anti-government supporters chanting slogans calling for the toppling of the regime in Tripoli.

The security forces fired gas and live ammunition at Gourghi area of the city.

Medics said they saw 50 bodies on Sunday afternoon as medicines were shot supplies to combat the emergency.

Fresh demonstrations have been reported in cities including Tobruk, al-Bayda and Misrata.

Libya’s envoy to the Arab League, Abdel Moneim al-Honi, said he was with the protesters for reforms in Lybia.

Col Gaddafi is the Arab world’s longest-serving leader, having ruled the oil-rich state since a coup in 1969.

Muammar Gaddafi offered reforms to end the violent uprising gripping the country, but he warned the protests were a foreign plot and would be crushed in a “bloodbath” if the government’s offer was rejected.

“Libya is at the crossroads. If we do not agree today on reforms, we will not be mourning 84 people, but thousands of deaths, and rivers of blood will run through Libya,” Sayf al-Islam said.

He said the eastern city of Benghazi, an epicentre of the unprecedented protests, was now out of government control.

“Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt,” he declared.