Libya repatriation: Gov’t action ‘too little, too late’

[vito corleone]

[SIZE=3]tsikoteers!!!! I SURVIVED the LIBYAN UPRISING [/SIZE]

[SIZE=3][SIZE=2]i Arrived in Malta March 1.....lakasan lang ng loob para makaalis ng site....600kms kami to BEnghazi 1200km to Tripoli...We decided to take the Tripoli route kasi pag nasa Tripoli maraming kang lalabasan at ways pano ka lalabas ng libya... eto mga town na dinaanan namin.... Ajidabibya-Brega-Raslanuf-Sirte-Tripoli....lahat yan ngayon nagpuputukan 100+ checkpoint ang dinaanan kumpiska memoy card laptop etc lahat ng data storage devices [/SIZE]


[SIZE=3]insert: they want to take brega and ras lanuf kasi anjan ang oil refineries at at terminal.....[/SIZE]

[SIZE=3]tska na ibang kwento pag nasa pinas na ako...baka sa March 6 pa daw uwi namin sabi ng company[/SIZE]


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buti nakalabas ka, bro. . .looking forward to hearing your story here--tsikot exclusive hehhe

[Monseratto]

Hirap na nga yung 30k OFWs sa Libya, paano pa 1.2 million sa Saudi?

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/214883/d...-rage-in-saudi

DFA on watch for unrest, ‘Day of Rage' in Saudi
JERRIE M. ABELLA, GMA News
03/09/2011 | 07:35 PM

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said it is now monitoring signs of unrest in Saudi Arabia, including the “Day of Rage" scheduled on Friday in the monarchic state, for any possible adverse effect on some 1.2 million Filipinos there.

But DFA Undersecretary Rafael Seguis said they remain hopeful that the unrest in Saudi Arabia, a key ally of the United States in the Middle East region as well as the single biggest hirer of overseas Filipino workers (OFW), will not be a serious threat to the Kingdom.

“Oo, tutok sa bansang ‘yan dahil ‘yan (ang may) pinakamaraming manggagawang Pilipino," Seguis said in an interview on dzRH radio. (Yes, we are focusing on that country because it has the biggest number of Filipino workers.)

“Palagay namin medyo matatag ang gobyerno riyan, matatag ang hari ... Titingnan natin.," he added. (We believe the Saudi government is stable enough, the King has full control.)

Seguis also said the DFA continues to monitor other countries in the Middle East and North Africa where anti-government protests are still ongoing, including Yemen, Bahrain and Oman.

“Minamasid namin nang mahusay. Ang Yemen, wala tayong Embassy doon (pero) meron tayong teams doon, ni-register ang kababayan doon at sa Bahrain inaasikaso ng ating embahada. ... Ang sa Oman, ‘di naman regime change kundi parang socio-economic concern. Sa tingin namin maaayos yan," he said.

(We are closely monitoring them. We don’t have an Embassy in Yemen but we have teams there who have started to register Filipino nationals. In Bahrain, our embassy is doing the same. And in Oman, protests are not for a regime change but rather for socio-economic concerns. We believe things will normalize.)

Over 1M Pinoys in Saudi

The Commission on Filipinos Overseas estimates that there are some 1.2 million Filipinos in the Kingdom as of December 2009.

Of this figure, over one million are workers; some 20,000 are undocumented, while the rest are permanent residents.

In 2009, according to records from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), over 290,000 Filipino workers were deployed in Saudi Arabia, including domestic helpers, nurses and teachers.

A small group claiming to be Saudi nationals have sparked fears that the Kingdom may likewise fall into political unrest, as it called for a “Day of Rage" on March 11.

The group has created a page on popular networking site Facebook which has 532 members so far. Supporters, however, have claimed that the Saudi government is blocking another page that has attracted more members.

In a separate Facebook page with almost 9,000 members, another group is calling for a “revolution" in Saudi Arabia through protest actions slated on March 20.

Among the second group’s demands are a change in government from the current Islamic absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy; the creation of a constitution; legislative elections; and an end to discrimination against women.

It is widely believed that the planned protests are likewise aimed at pressuring the government to release detained leaders of Shi’ites, who compose the second largest denomination of Islam, next to the Sunnis.

The Saudi government’s Ministry of Interior has already issued a statement stating that the Kingdom’s laws “strictly prohibit all forms of demonstrations, marches and sit-ins," as these contradict the principles of Islamic law.

“[T]he security forces are lawfully authorized to take all necessary actions against whoever tries to violate the law in any way; and he will be subject to the full force of the relevant regulations," the statement added.

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[SIZE=3]tsikoteers!!!! I SURVIVED the LIBYAN UPRISING

[SIZE=2]i Arrived in Malta March 1.....lakasan lang ng loob para makaalis ng site....600kms kami to BEnghazi 1200km to Tripoli...We decided to take the Tripoli route kasi pag nasa Tripoli maraming kang lalabasan at ways pano ka lalabas ng libya... eto mga town na dinaanan namin.... Ajidabibya-Brega-Raslanuf-Sirte-Tripoli....lahat yan ngayon nagpuputukan 100+ checkpoint ang dinaanan kumpiska memoy card laptop etc lahat ng data storage devices


insert: they want to take brega and ras lanuf kasi anjan ang oil refineries at at terminal.....

tska na ibang kwento pag nasa pinas na ako...baka sa March 6 pa daw uwi namin sabi ng company


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Are you now here in the Philippines Bro.?

Mabuti na lang at nakadiskarte kang lumabas ng Libya.....

The situation in the region is deteriorating....

12.5K:soccer:

[uls]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dZWg1bxgso"]YouTube - ‫اطلاق النار الØ*ÙŠ على المتظاهرين السلميين Ù?ÙŠ القطيÙ?‬‎[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1sMQTwyS1A"]YouTube - ‫قمع مظاهره القطيÙ? (السلمية) بالرصاص الØ*ÙŠ من قوات الامن‬‎[/ame]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMGuV2jT0ps#at=110

[uls]

^^ day of rage


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMGuV2jT0ps"]YouTube - ‫تظارهات القطيÙ? ليلة الخميس 10 مارس 2011‬‎[/ame]

[chua_riwap]

Hirap na nga yung 30k OFWs sa Libya, paano pa 1.2 million sa Saudi?

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/214883/d...-rage-in-saudi

Thank God, ok naman kami rito sa Saudi. Dumaan yung Mar. 11 na no untoward incident sa Riyadh. Pero, parang ghost town ang city. halos walang civilians sa daan. Nagkalat ang mga pulis at sundalo. May mga helicopters din na umiikot, maya-maya.

Sa Mar 20 naman, Day of Revolution naman "daw". Ewan ko kung ano na naman ito.....

[jom's]

[SIZE=3]tsikoteers!!!! I SURVIVED the LIBYAN UPRISING

[SIZE=2]i Arrived in Malta March 1.....lakasan lang ng loob para makaalis ng site....600kms kami to BEnghazi 1200km to Tripoli...We decided to take the Tripoli route kasi pag nasa Tripoli maraming kang lalabasan at ways pano ka lalabas ng libya... eto mga town na dinaanan namin.... Ajidabibya-Brega-Raslanuf-Sirte-Tripoli....lahat yan ngayon nagpuputukan 100+ checkpoint ang dinaanan kumpiska memoy card laptop etc lahat ng data storage devices


insert: they want to take brega and ras lanuf kasi anjan ang oil refineries at at terminal.....

tska na ibang kwento pag nasa pinas na ako...baka sa March 6 pa daw uwi namin sabi ng company


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bro ako naman galing benghazi, biyahe kami ng tobruk nung feb 25 via shalom egypt, natambay sa alexandria then march 6 kami nakauwi sa pinas...

nakuha mo na yung 10k assitance sa OWWA?

mga bro tsikoters need advise last august nakakuha kami ng jazz 3 years to pay, sa nangyari bigla kaming economically displaced with 22k amortization at walang linaw pa kung kelan matatapos gulo sa libya, mukhang mahihilahan kami ng sasakyan pano ba mag benta ng car with assume balance?

[chua_riwap]

ayan na....they'll smoke out Qadaffi.


http://globalnation.inquirer.net/new...in-hoursFrance



Military strikes on Libya within hours—France

PARIS—(UPDATE) Military action against Libya will come within "hours" and France will participate in the strikes, government spokesman Francois Baroin said Friday.

The strikes will come "rapidly... within a few hours," he told RTL radio after the UN Security Council on Thursday cleared the way for air strikes by approving "all necessary measures" to impose a no-fly zone on Libya.

Baroin said the goal of the military action would be to "protect the Libyan people and to allow them to go all the way in their drive for freedom, which means bringing down the Kadhafi regime."

Diplomats have indicated that air strikes from a coalition led by Britain, France and the United States could be imminent. However, the resolution rules out sending in foreign ground troops.

[chrismarte]

Are you now here in the Philippines Bro.?

Mabuti na lang at nakadiskarte kang lumabas ng Libya.....

The situation in the region is deteriorating....

12.5K:soccer:

yes bro March 7 ako dumating sa Pinas, natagalan lang mag online kasi na regroup kami ni misis para sa pagpapalano ng mga susunod na mangyayari

bro ako naman galing benghazi, biyahe kami ng tobruk nung feb 25 via shalom egypt, natambay sa alexandria then march 6 kami nakauwi sa pinas...

mas madali ang way na to kasi di mahigpit tsaka mejo malapit di ba?dito din dumaan yung ibang kakilala ko kaya naka alis sila ng walang passport

nakuha mo na yung 10k assitance sa OWWA?

oo nakuha ko na at naubos na din

mga bro tsikoters need advise last august nakakuha kami ng jazz 3 years to pay, sa nangyari bigla kaming economically displaced with 22k amortization at walang linaw pa kung kelan matatapos gulo sa libya, mukhang mahihilahan kami ng sasakyan pano ba mag benta ng car with assume balance?

swerte ko bro last month ko this month at binayaran kami ng employer plus 1 month pa.

[chrismarte]

nung andun pa ako mga loyalista pa lang ni Gaddafi ang mga nasa checkpoint at mga nasa foot patrol wala pa yung mga Army nya...pag ginamit na ng UN yung powers nila malamang lalabas na sa buhanging yung mga yun