Libyans poured out of Sirte Tuesday, after three weeks of brutal shelling and gunbattles finally forced them to flee through hostile interim government checkpoints.
Cars piled high with possessions and carrying terrified, hungry families crawled out of the strategic coastal city to have their belongings searched and identities checked by suspicious National Transitional Council forces.
NTC fighters eased their shelling of the town Tuesday, allowing residents to escape. Neither the fleeing Sirte families nor the revolutionary fighters searching them hid their mutual distrust, although most civilians said they were well treated and some were given food and water.
３週間続いた激しい炸裂弾と銃撃戦で最終的に敵の暫定的政権のチェックポイントを通って逃げることを余儀なくされたリビア市民が火曜日に大量に脱出した。
持ち物を山のように積み込み、恐怖に駆られ空腹に苦しむ家族を乗せた多くの車が、戦略的海岸地域の町へ逃げ出し、疑い深い国民評議会勢力から所有物の検査と身分証明書のチェックを受けた。
国民評議会の戦士は火曜日に町の炸裂弾攻撃を緩め、住民を非難させた。脱出するシルト市民も、彼らを探す革命戦士も、互いの不信感を隠さなかったが、多くの市民は良い扱いを受けたといい、食料や水をもらった人もいたという。
