It's an inter-changeable script -- same dictatorial style, tactics and distractions.
The unanswered question remains whether the Castro regime would succumb to lethal force. Everything else is nearly identical.
From the Financial Times:
Human Rights Watch, a New York-based organization, said at least 24 people were killed after security forces used live fire in a bid to disperse demonstrators on Thursday, which activists had dubbed a "day of anger", emulating the uprisings that swept from power the presidents of neighboring Tunisia and Egypt.
Amnesty International has accused the Libyan authorities of recklessly shooting at anti-government protesters after the organization learnt that at least 46 people had been shot dead by security forces in the past 72 hours.
Col Gaddafi, who seized power in 1969 and is the Arab world's longest-serving ruler, appears to be responding with the tactics used by Tunisia's Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak – deploying security forces to crack down on activists, mobilizing loyalists to march in counter demonstrations and reportedly offering to double public sector salaries.
On Thursday, he drove through a crowd of flag-waving loyalists in Tripoli, with the images broadcast on Libyan television.
Activists say the pro-regime demonstrators were brought in by bus and paid to take part.
The country had been gradually opening up after years of isolation under sanctions. But dissent is quashed, political parties are banned and public protests are rare. Revolutionary committees, which have their own militias, keep control of towns and villages across the country.
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