Mgr Martinelli supports rebels’ good intentions in building the new Libya.
“We must back the rebels’ good intentions rather than take their words to extremes,” said Mgr Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli.
The bishop of Tripoli will return to Libya on Thursday where he hopes to meet the rebel leader, Mustafa Jalil, who says the country’s new order will be inspired by Sharia but will be against Islamic extremism.
Mgr Martinelli believes that Jalil “is a man of good will, willing to move the country towards a new future.”
Tiziana Gamannossi, an Italian businesswoman in Tripoli, said that life was getting back to normal in the capital, but that residents in villages and towns still under siege are not getting any aid. Some reports are saying that civilians are being killed.
“In Tripoli, stores reopened. Water, diesel fuel and bottled gas are available again. People are confident,” she said.
However, the health situation is still bad despite the work of the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders (MSF).
Revenge actions between tribes and families are still out of control and are causing many victims. Today Amnesty International released a report accusing the rebels of serious human rights violations against Gaddafi loyalists.
The NTC has criticised the Amnesty report, saying that rebels “are not the military, they are only ordinary people,” who made mistakes, but that these could not be described as “war crimes”.
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