Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 4:39 · Video file(12 MB)
Les résidents de l'est de la Libye se battent contre le régime de Qadhafi, dépeignant les conditions de combat et les tensions de la révolution.
Transcript
Determined, armed, but very little prepared, these inhabitants of eastern Libya are going to fight. Their revolution against the Qadhafi regime, they want to defend it, at all costs. We don't ask them to leave, we want them to be executed, hanged in front of the people. Our reporter is embarking with them on a pick-up, heading for the front of Brega. Their goal, goal to resume the oil terminal at the end of this road on the right the mediterranean sea the site is strategic with a port a landing track and oil installations the revolutionaries are armed with a few knives grenades but also rocket launchers and machine guns the bifurc convoy to sink into the desert in this improvised army no command most are civilians they only received a simple training then the men organize themselves as they can can. Their opponents are in front of them, about 800 meters away. The shots are very nourishing. Light weapons and artillery. The bullets whistle, only the dunes allow to protect themselves. The fights last long hours, each time the improvisation dominates. the fighters are lack everything but no courage according to them their opponents are Libyans but also foreign mercenaries paid by the regime the group moves forward as as fast as they can. We fold back! Come on, quickly, we fold back! Unprepared, they get tired quickly. Did you bring the ammunition? No, that's all we have. On the other side of this dune, they see a tank and take out the rocket launchers. No other choice but to shoot at sight. The different groups of fighters transmit the information by mobile phone we managed to blow up 24 vehicles between the fighters the dialogue is permanent you have to encourage yourself to face the stress of the fights In the distance, the oil terminal is in sight. Do you see them? Where are they? Where are they? They are just there next to the sea. God is great, God is great. On the route of Brega, it is time for recovery and food, drink and eat to continue the campaign. On the road to Brega, it's time to go back and refuel. Drink and eat to continue the fight. While the bullets continue to whistle above their heads, some take the opportunity to be sheltered to pray on the front the fights continue the aviation of colonel kadhafi bombards the battlefield the airport is completely free it was released by the revolutionaries of 17th of February. The pro-Qadhafi who were at the airport are chasing us, but they are surrounded by our men. At the back, the ambulances take in the first victims. The revolutionaries now fear the bombing of the city of Benghazi, the heart of the revolution. With the counterattack of the regime, the Battle of Brega marks a turning point in the Libyan revolution.