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Libya repression intensifies as troops fire on mourners

Demonstrators braved the streets of the Libyan city of Benghazi on Sunday, after soldiers reportedly killed at least 12 mourners in a crackdown on anti-government protests. After nearly a week of demonstrations against the regime of Moamer Kadhafi, Human Rights Watch reports at least 104 people have died.

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Mourners heading to funerals of people killed by security forces in Libya's second city of Benghazi reportedly threw firebombs at a military barracks while en route to the cemetery.

Troops responded with live rounds in which "at least 12 people were killed and many more injured", Ramadan Briki, chief editor of the newspaper Quryna, told AFP news agency.

New York-based Human Rights Watch says at least 104 people have been killed since Tuesday, aDemonstrators braved the streets of the Libyan city of Benghazi on Sunday, after soldiers reportedly killed at least 12 mourners in a crackdown on anti-government protests. After nearly a week of demonstrations against the regime of Moamer Kadhafi, Human Rights Watch reports at least 104 people have died. figure based on reports from medics and witnesses.

"Our researcher in Libya has confirmed at least 104 deaths," the human rights watchog's London director Tom Porteous said on Sunday.

"It's an incomplete picture because communications with Libya is extremely difficult," he added.

Communication networks are disrupted, with internet and phone lines being blocked.

Libyan state television show no coverage of the protests. Instead, they show images from pro-Kadhafi demonstrators.

Kadhafi has still made no public comment about the challenge to his four-decade regime, which come as popular uprisings in the region have toppled the regimes in Libya's neighbours Tunisia and Egypt.

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