London, February 27: The UN Security Council took the measures in response to Gaddafi’s bloody repression of pro-democracy protesters
The 68-year-old Muammar Gaddafi, nine members of his family, and six other members of his inner circle will now face international travel bans, Reuters reported on Saturday.
Any assets belonging to Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and four other family members will also be frozen.
The UN Security Council unanimously ordered an arms embargo on the Gaddafi regime and an investigation into the ongoing bloodshed and referred the Libyan ruler to the International Criminal Court.
Meanwhile, Libya’s former justice minister, Mustafa Mohamed Abdel-Jalil, formed an interim government in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday.
But foreign mercenaries and troops still loyal to Gaddafi are making every effort to crush the revolution.
Gaddafi and four of his sons, Saif al-Islam, al-Saadi, al-Mutassim, and Khamis, are reportedly in the Bab al-Azizia military barracks, located west of Tripoli, and fighting against the protesters.
His fifth son, Saif-al-Arab Gaddafi, has joined the revolutionaries, and the Libyan dictator’s cousin, Ahmed Qadhaf al-Dam, who was one of the members of Gaddafi’s inner circle, has defected to Egypt.
Tripoli is a strategically important city and home to two million of Libya’s more than six million people.
Libyan security forces have reportedly killed over 1,000 people during the recent demonstrations against Gaddafi’s four decades of repressive rule.
But Libya is bracing for more violence as thousands of pro-democracy protesters, seeking the ouster of the Gaddafi regime, are moving toward the capital.
According to the latest reports, demonstrators have already passed through the suburbs of Tripoli.
——–Agencies